Asif Ghafoor, CEO of Be.EV and Stefan Furlan, CEO and Founder of Dodona Analytics talk about their shared business journey, the importance of data and analysis, and what’s next for the UK’s fastest growing charging network.
“One of our first and dearest customers”, Be.EV is the fastest growing public EV charging networks in the UK. With their mission to make charging simple, reliable and available to everyone, Be.EV started out as a new business in a new sector, and soon found that access to data and analytics was going to be instrumental in its success.
Now, with a growing network of over 750 charge points across the country, it is certainly going the right way about it.
Asif Ghafoor, CEO of Be.EV and Stefan Furlan, CEO and Founder of Dodona Analytics, recently took the time to sit down and chat through the beginning of the joint-journey, Be.EV’s successes and experience of driving a business forward in a new and developing sector, as well as current and future plans for Be.EV.
Key takeaways
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A longstanding partnership - Be.EV has been using the Dodona Analytics Charge Point Planning (CPP) solution for four years now. As an early customer, Be.EV collaborated with Dodona Analytics with a shared vision, with its needs informing our product direction.
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Trust and collaboration - This is very much emphasized as key to long-term success. The flexibility between customer and provider allowed for the product to adapt to both market and customer needs, leading to business success on both sides. For Asif, this was a noteworthy distinction of Dodona Analytics when compared to typical data analytics providers.
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The value of data and analysis in a new sector - Asif talks about the importance of moving from gut feel to a data-approach, verifying your decisions through data and being able to attract investment and secure capital with a provable, demonstrable process.
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Building your brand and growing the business - Data is discussed as having a role to play here as well, underpinning the success needed before a company can attract new hires, expand its operations and become known in the market and by customers for their services.
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The ongoing need for evolving data and insight strategies - As the market matures, as do the needs of the typical EV driver. Asif emphasizes the need to incorporate new data demands and analysis to help refine the customer proposition. Who is the charging hub end user, what do they want from the experience, and how might this develop as the EV driver dynamics evolves?
Thank you Asif , Stefan, and Be.EV for sharing your time and your insight with us.
About Be.EV
Be.EV is a UK-based Charge Point Operator with one of the fast-growing public electric vehicle charging networks in the country. With its mission to make EV charging simple, reliable, effortless and available to everyone, Be.EV’s network of over 750 vehicle charge points boasts an uptime/availability record of 99.6% offering drivers the right charging speeds in the right places. Majority owned by Octopus Energy Generation and backed by NatWest and KfW, they are committed to building a network fit for today and tomorrow and are passionate about making a positive contribution to the communities they serve.
Find out more at their website: https://be-ev.co.uk/