Electric fleet software company Flexible Power Systems (FPS) and leading front-line support and maintenance provider Barron McCann are today announcing a partnership designed to ensure fleets can reliably and cost-effectively deploy EVs into operations at scale.
EV Deployments are Reaching a Tipping Point
Commercial fleet electrification is moving beyond early pilots and into larger, more operationally demanding deployments. As van and truck fleets scale, the challenge is no longer simply choosing vehicles or installing chargers; it is ensuring that electric assets can be planned, managed, supported and kept available as part of sophisticated business-as-usual operations. Fleet operators must now manage infrastructure availability, vehicle readiness, energy constraints, charging costs, route suitability, utilisation, reporting and return on investment, while continuing to meet customer service commitments and Net Zero objectives.
Two Businesses Passionate About Uptime and Efficiency
Flexible Power Systems and Barron McCann share a commitment to helping customers make new technologies work reliably in real operating environments. The partnership brings together FPS’s software, data and fleet transition expertise with Barron McCann’s proven front-line support, nationwide engineering, deployment and maintenance capabilities. Together, the companies will support customers from transition planning and pilot programmes through to scaled deployment, ongoing optimisation and charger uptime support.
Unique Software and Transition Skills
FPS provides data-led EV transition planning and fleet operations software for commercial vehicle operators. FPS Operate is more than a charge point management system: it uniquely integrates data from across the fleet ecosystem, including vehicles, chargers, buildings and operations, and combines this into real-time control-tower views, automated analytics and alert services. The platform also automatically optimises vehicle and task allocations, on-route charging stops and charging profiles to ensure assets are used efficiently, helping operators manage deployment risk, reduce operating costs and evidence carbon and cost savings as they scale.
Elite Front-line Support and Service Provision
Barron McCann provides end-to-end EV charging deployment, monitoring, maintenance and support services across the UK. Its EV charger support offer combines 24/7 front-line support, remote monitoring and diagnostics, help desk services and nationwide on-site response through its field engineering teams. This is underpinned by Barron McCann’s logistics infrastructure and configuration facilities, helping keep critical charging technology available and operational. For EV fleets, this means practical support for charger installation, commissioning, break-fix maintenance, service management and proactive response, helping customers reduce downtime and maximise charger availability.
Joined-Up Service Delivering Uptime and Optimisation
By combining FPS’s EV transition advisory expertise and FPS Operate with Barron McCann’s front-line service capability, the partnership will give fleet customers a more complete support model for scaled EV operations. Customers will be able to plan deployments with greater confidence, manage vehicles and chargers in real time, improve utilisation, maintain charging infrastructure performance, reduce operational complexity and demonstrate measurable progress against cost, carbon and service objectives. The combined offer is designed to help fleets make EVs part of reliable, sophisticated, high-availability day-to-day operations.
Through the partnership, customers can benefit from reduced electrification risk, faster scale-up, improved infrastructure availability, better vehicle and charger utilisation, automated reporting on CO₂ savings and Total Cost of Ownership, and stronger evidence for sustainability and Net Zero reporting.
Michael Ayres, Managing Director at Flexible Power Systems, said: “As commercial EV deployments scale, fleet operators need to maintain performance, control costs and keep vehicles and chargers available. Our partnership with Barron McCann combines FPS’s transition and real-time management software with best-in-class front-line support and charger uptime services, helping customers operate EV fleets with confidence.”
Steve Slater, Head of Electrical and EV at Barron McCann, added: “Fleet electrification creates major opportunities, but success depends on reliable infrastructure, responsive support and practical operational expertise. By partnering with FPS, we can offer customers a joined-up solution that helps them transition, scale and operate EV fleets reliably.”
