Fleet Logistics has furthered its plans to become a mobility specialist under a tie-up with Mobiko.

Fleet Logistics’ senior product manager, Patrick Averweg

Munich-based Mobiko is a European-renowned provider of mobility solutions and is now Fleet Logistics’ preferred strategic partner in the fast-growing mobility sector of the corporate market.

The partnership, which will initially start in Germany before rolling out across Europe in the coming months, is regarded as a particularly strategic one for Fleet Logistics as the firm looks to transition from pure fleet management provider to offering new managed mobility solutions under the Managed Mobility-as-a-Service (MMaaS) banner.

Earlier this year, Fleet Logistics revealed its first move into the mobility sector earlier this year with the launch of its MobilityBudget solution, which aims to give employees a greater variety of mobility choices and to become a one-stop shop for all client mobility needs.

The firm added that the new strategic partnership with Mobiko underlines its commitment to the mobility sector and its desire to work with a specialist in this area to provide greater certainty and credibility to customers and prospects.

Fleet Logistics’ senior product manager, Patrick Averweg, commented: “Mobiko has strong networks in the HR and corporate benefits sector and so it made perfect sense to partner with them and draw on their expertise in this fast-moving new sector.

“Our collaboration will underpin what we have achieved so far and allow us to go on and develop new and exciting solutions to meet the widening mobility needs of large corporates and their employees.”

Mobiko’s co-founder and chief vision officer, Andreas Reichert, continued: “It is important to see that, through our partnership, we can make more employees happy in terms of fulfilling their mobility needs.

“While company cars usually reach only about 5% of employees, the mobility budget is able to serve all corporate mobility needs.”

He added: “With this new partnership we are able to unite the present and the future of corporate fleet and mobility management.

“As there will be a strong focus on vehicle management for some time, we needed a partner with great expertise and dedication to the details of fleet-related customer needs.

“However, in the future we expect the individual to be at the centre of mobility management. This is where Mobiko comes into play. We can provide corporate mobility offerings which are transparent and optimised regarding emissions and cost efficiency.”

Mobiko provides software for new mobility services and its mission is to “to shape the future of green corporate mobility”; its clients have already seen a reduction in carbon emissions of as much as 40% by using different types of mobility over the usage of a company or private car and by ‘rightsizing’.

Patrick Averweg said this would be an important aspect going forward as companies came under increasing pressure to reduce their carbon footprints as part of the move to cutting greenhouses gasses.

“Under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, which provides global standardized frameworks to measure and manage greenhouse gas emissions from businesses, companies are obliged to report carbon levels from commuting and how they plan to reduce their carbon footprint in the future,” he said.

“Our MobilityBudget solution has the means to help them do that as it allows the employee to rightsize from the car they are provided with to a smaller car with lower emissions.

“If the employee opts for a smaller car which has a lower lease rate the difference can be transferred to a mobility budget. This budget can then be used in addition to his company car for all mobility types which are defined by the employer. The mobility budget which has been used will automatically get reimbursed tax-optimised with the next salary,” he said.

“We see MobilityBudget as being very much the right solution for today’s complex and challenging corporate mobility needs,” added Averweg.