Goodyear, Envoy Technologies pilot digital service solution for shared, on-demand EV fleets

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced a new pilot program with Envoy Technologies, a provider of shared on-demand, community-based electric vehicles (EVs). The pilot, which launched early in 2019, is testing services aimed at minimizing operational downtime for vehicle fleets. Goodyear’s unique predictive tire servicing solution for connected fleets is being used to forecast and automatically schedule needed tire maintenance and replacement. To do this, Goodyear gathers secure, anonymized data from Envoy’s connected vehicles and uses it to predict and schedule service needs. Goodyear then utilizes its network of outlets and mobile vans to provide service to the vehicles. Envoy Technologies, a Culver City-based provider of turnkey electric vehicle car-sharing services, offers vehicles where people live, work and stay. (From a press release on March 21, 2019)