Pauline Lecheminoux, author on Echoes

Residual Value of Electric Cars: How to Maintain It in 2025?

Residual value of electric cars: how to maintain it in 2025? When renewing your fleet, one figure is at the heart of negotiations: residual value. For an electric vehicle, this value is closely tied to its most expensive component: the battery. It is therefore…

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Geofencing: Everything You Need to Know About Virtual Fleet Monitoring

Geofencing: Everything You Need to Know About Virtual Fleet Monitoring Imagine being able to draw invisible boundaries around your sensitive sites—such as a warehouse, a construction site, or a customer parking lot—and receive an alert as soon as one of your vehicles enters or leaves that area. It’s not science fiction…

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Fleet Management for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: Solutions Tailored for Small Businesses

Fleet Management for Small Businesses: Solutions Tailored to Small Companies Are you spending too much time managing your vehicles instead of growing your business? Between unpredictable costs, time-consuming administrative tasks, and risks related to safety or compliance, manual management…

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Corporate Vehicle Theft: The Complete Guide to Protecting and Recovering Your Fleet

Corporate Vehicle Theft: The Complete Guide to Protecting and Recovering Your Fleet In France, in 2024, vehicle thefts—particularly those involving light commercial vehicles (LCVs)—have risen significantly: 70,459 vehicles were stolen, a 5% increase from 2023. These theft statistics…

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Fringe Benefits in 2025: What Will Be the Impact on Hybrid Vehicles?

Benefits in Kind in 2025: What Are the Implications for Hybrid Vehicles? With the 2025 reform of benefits in kind (AEN) on the horizon, one question keeps coming up: Will hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles also receive preferential treatment, just like electric vehicles? The answer is clear…

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Electric Vehicle Benefit-in-Kind 2025: A Guide to the New 70% Deduction

Electric Vehicle Benefit-in-Kind 2025: A Guide to the New 70% Exemption Despite rising rates, electric vehicles remain highly favored in 2025. The government is maintaining an exceptionally favorable tax regime for 100% electric vehicles. A new 70% exemption offsets a significant…

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Purchased or Leased Vehicle (Long-Term Lease/Lease-to-Own): How Does This Affect the Calculation of the 2025 AEN?

Purchased or Leased Vehicle (Long-Term Lease/Lease-to-Own): How Does This Affect the Calculation of the 2025 Vehicle Benefit-in-Kind? The 2025 tax reform regarding the Vehicle Benefit-in-Kind makes the choice of acquisition method (purchase vs. lease) even more strategic. Indeed, as discussed in our article “Complete Guide to Calculating…”

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Complete Guide: Calculating the Vehicle Benefit-in-Kind in 2025

Comprehensive Guide: Calculating the Vehicle Benefit-in-Kind in 2025 The vehicle benefit-in-kind is a critical issue for companies that provide company cars to their employees. It is calculated using two distinct methods: the flat-rate method and the actual-expense method. Until now, many companies…

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10 Strategies to Reduce Your Costs

Managing Your Fleet Budget: 10 Strategies to Optimize Your Fleet’s TCO Fuel, insurance, maintenance, taxes, depreciation… Managing a vehicle fleet is often a real budgetary headache and one of the largest expense categories for a business. In a tight economic climate, seeing these costs…

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How to Choose Fleet Management Software in 2025?

How to Choose Fleet Management Software in 2025? Choosing fleet management software is a strategic decision that directly impacts your profitability, operational efficiency, and the safety of your teams. In 2025, the market is saturated with options, but not all are created equal.…

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