Insights
News tells you what happened this week. These pieces read a whole run of stories together and say what the pattern costs a fleet. Every figure is linked to the THRIVE story or the official dataset it came from.
Seven weeks, one number: the diesel-to-electric gap keeps widening
The THRIVE Fleet Cost Index has climbed every week since we started publishing it. Here is what that trend actually costs a van fleet.
The charging map is consolidating. That changes your depot-versus-public maths
Eleven weeks of network news points one way: fewer, larger operators, built outside London, with the grid as the constraint.
The driver problem is not a recruitment problem
60,000 a year is not a hiring target anyone will hit. The stories we have run alongside it point somewhere else.
AI in fleet software: what has actually shipped
Six vendor announcements in eleven weeks. We sorted them into what exists, what is an integration, and what is a press release.
ZEV mandate review: who wants what
A running record of every stated position we have reported, and what a fleet should plan for while the argument runs.
The sub-£25k EV shortlist: what UK fleets are actually putting on the list
Ten weeks of model coverage, one table. At 4 per cent benefit-in-kind, list price stops being the interesting number.
What tachograph non-compliance actually costs in 2026
Four separate stories this summer, one clear pattern. The consequences have moved from fines to fleet size.
Contract Watch: what the public sector bought this quarter
Our first quarterly read of UK public-sector fleet tenders. Small sample, clear direction.