============================================================ TITLE: What is Electric Vehicle Telematics? TYPE: blog VERSION: 1 VERSION_ID: 14bd919d-b3b3-4a92-83c7-82fab776c825 GENERATED_AT: 2026-01-29T02:06:34.380Z SUMMARY: Check out this blog and learn what is electric vehicle telematics AUTHOR: James Roberts DATE PUBLISHED: May 9, 2022 READING TIME: 14 min WORD COUNT: 2632 KEYWORDS: What is Electric Vehicle Telematics?, Automotive Telematics SOURCE URL: https://lhpiot.com/blog/what-is-electric-vehicle-telematics ============================================================ KEY TAKEAWAYS: * Automotive Telematics * What is Electric Vehicle Telematics? * The Future of Telematics in EV Development? * Maintaining Electrification Through the Telematics Journey * An Efficient Telematics Solution can Guarantee Three Things: ## Automotive Telematics The role of telematics in the automotive industry over the past few decades has been significant and continues to be an important aspect of product development. With the continuous integration of assistive technology, particularly Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), automotive telematics testing has enabled proper validation of multiple sophisticated vehicle systems and features. Telematics is a branch of information technology (IT) and telecommunications that focuses on the transmission, reception, and storage of information via telecommunication devices. It should also be viewed as something more significant than just that. On the one hand, telematics often extends into “agents” or codes that organizations can create for their customers to extract data from their assets. The other side of telematics often involves developing a Visualization Layer that allows organizations to make sense of information in a compelling, specifically tailored way, enabling actionable decision-making. ## What is Electric Vehicle Telematics? While glancing into the future of automotive and identifying potential opportunities, challenges, successes, and failures the industry should encounter as it shifts toward electrification, electric vehicle telematics will remain a vital component. The rise in data dependency in the automotive industry is widely acknowledged, but it remains so critical that it warrants reemphasizing—especially as the industry navigates the early stages of a new, electrified era. Sophisticated vehicles can achieve and maintain efficient operation while meeting safety performance standards through the telematics and analytics incorporated into the product development process. The importance of pulling information through telematics will grow in parallel with the complexity of EV development, both now and in the future, as telematics becomes more complex with greater access to and use of data. The EV market is driving the industry's shift, meaning that telematics, along with a meticulous analytics plan, will add valuable context to the information collected by products’ software and integrated technology systems. To maintain the development of safety-optimized vehicles with advanced technology,  telematics is a needed asset. Electric vehicle telematics can be defined in the same manner as the general form of telematics in automotive, but with the scope adjusted to an electrification lens. Again, with the way the automotive world is evolving, the data-relevant side of product development, software, and technology advancement will remain a key factor in how organizations can grow and succeed in the future. More specifically, transitioning to an EV-focused industry should boost demand for EV telematics solutions that provide organizations with valuable information and extensive data insights. Though the mass adoption of EVs is expected to benefit the environment by reducing global oil dependency, there are immediate constraints—such as range anxiety. Other external factors will affect EV telematics optimization, as they also directly affect other processes within electrification. Though range anxiety reflects concern about EV battery efficiency, it is important, given the currently limited access to EV charging infrastructure. Though telematics may not eliminate range anxiety, it is a solution tool that should alleviate this concern. There are additional organizational benefits that telematics can provide, but before examining them, it is worth discussing how EV telematics work. ### How Does Electric Vehicle Telematics Work? The process or methodology of EV telematics can be both iterative and continuous. When organizations prioritize their data by implementing a proper telematics solution, gathering the various types of vehicle data is merely the first step. The connected telematics device integrated into the vehicle will communicate that information. This device is often referred to as a “black box,” which is interconnected via a CAN bus. It also includes a modem and a SIM card that allows for communication. The black box transfers the data to the cloud for visual display. Organizations can access that information via whatever telematics software/application they use. This cyclic exchange is where analytics can be applied, which could be considered one of the more important aspects of telematics altogether. The good thing about telematics is that, depending on the organization, there are multiple applications to use. Some teams may use Azure, while others may use Amazon Web Services. Nonetheless, organizations will want to use something that best stores their data points in the cloud. By displaying data points in charts or any other visuals, all of that valuable information can be identified and extracted. Organizations can then develop thorough analytical insights, which allow them to make decisions as they see fit. This telematics process, or journey, will look similar to many of those who go through it. Again, there are particular ways to approach this process that best reflect organizational needs, but in essence, information is pulled, stored, and transformed into actionable data. This journey directly influences how organizations use telematics in product development, a critical asset as OEMs introduce new EV models. Since the telematics device is connected to the vehicle, including its hardware and sensors, it can display EV data such as battery life, trip distance/time, speed, acceleration, Global Positioning System or GPS, and vehicle maintenance components. In addition, telematics directly connecting to EV subsystems and the testing involved allows for more efficient subsystem interaction altogether. For example, the infotainment subsystems in an EV will most likely become more complex to keep pace with advances in technology that enable more advanced driver usability. Another example would include vehicle components such as dash cameras, which are a key assistive driver feature that will most likely continue to be integrated into EV models in the future. Overall, the CAN bus enables multiple components to communicate and transmit data. It can be viewed as a highway through which all that information travels. ## The Future of Telematics in EV Development? EV telematics will play a critical role in both the software and system integration involved in the products’ overall development and in shaping the future of the automotive industry. EV charging, an entire topic in itself, is one prime example of how far the telematics journey can extend. In addition, there are several considerations the industry has yet to identify for the future of automotive electrification. Some problems cannot be anticipated or predicted, underscoring a greater need for EV telematics and analytics. Capturing and reporting large amounts of data within connected EV systems offers benefits for the electrified vehicles that OEMs hope to develop. ### What are the Main Benefits of Telematics within EV Development? So, what overall benefits do telematics add to the development of EVs? The most immediate benefit that EV telematics can deliver is turning an organization’s vehicle data into usable assets, as the data's context enables action. More often than not, the context of this information provides evidence to justify the decisions being made. Overall, this contextual evidence eliminates the chance of any ambiguity or confusion in the process. The integration of telematics into vehicles has enabled easy access to software and features that improve several other aspects of organizational activity. Areas such as product safety, performance, and environmental sustainability can be directly affected by telematics. In product safety, telematics devices in an EV can collect information relevant to safety. For instance, in the event of a crash or collision, vehicles can request emergency assistance by using telematic device data to identify the incident. In addition, telematics can gather and report significant data on driver behavior, such as moments of sharp braking and intense acceleration. The internet resource can even enhance vehicle usability when integrated into the telematics system; real-time notifications for navigation, texting, weather tracking, and news reports connect back to product and user safety. These different safety aspects will be especially critical, given that the development of newer EV models should include autonomous-assistive features. Tracking a vehicle’s performance and productivity offers several benefits. Telematics systems should be able to report vehicle diagnostics and display a vehicle’s health status in real time. For EVs, this is important because EV telematics can monitor battery life and range. Gathering this performance data is another way to reduce the chance of breakdowns and to maintain proper risk management overall. One of the primary concerns electrification aims to address is environmental impact, so collecting data relevant to sustainability is another advantage of EV telematics. Whether displaying battery life, temperature, or range, sustainability data will provide relevant information that can support thorough analytics. Also, EV subsystems and components testing may rely on telematics software and systems to streamline the process. Overall, newer vehicles require more high-level software capabilities and should be incorporated into EVs over the next decade. This may increase the amount of code in vehicular software, adding another layer of complexity to EV development. So, the additional lines of code will increase complexity and the overall level of integration required. ### What are the Key Considerations for EV Telematics? EV telematics is one particular aspect of a larger electrification picture, and there are numerous things to consider. Starting with the EV market as a whole, the potential cost of new EVs may create disparities in the consumer market. It is clear that a handful of supply chain issues have arisen from the pandemic, and its lingering effects may continue to cause disruptions as OEMs and suppliers try to recover from organizational setbacks. Depending on how the industry progresses over the next decade, the development of EV models could either get off to a slow start or move at a brisk pace. Either way, that could affect the implementation of telematics systems into electrified vehicles. In addition, the growth of EVs may not be limited to electric cars and hybrids. OEMs have already started advertising their new electrified trucks, which has raised eyebrows about what additional electrified vehicles can be made. The industry could lean toward developing electrified motorbikes, as well as electric semi-trucks and/or service vehicles. The first step would be achieving electrification and the mass implementation of EVs, but exploring these potential possibilities can create concerns about how EV telematics will be addressed with this added layer of known and unknown constraints. An increase in diverse EV transportation would also require additional infrastructure for EV load management. Again, this may include EV charging stations, EV testing facilities, and battery manufacturers. Nonetheless, the development of these external electrification assets would be heavily data-dependent, creating opportunities for telematics and analytics. As briefly noted previously, the telematics journey handles large amounts of data. That can be a concern in itself, but it raises the question of how different organizations can understand that information. Of course, if an organization does not know how to address its data, it can reach out to other organizations that offer telematics services. Regardless, being aware of the amount of data available and understanding how to develop a proper telematics solution that supports thorough analytics is an important consideration. This leads to an examination of the impact security has on EV telematics and vice versa. Certain security protocols apply to telematics—encrypted certificates and the Secure Sockets Layer or SSL, for example. Since telematics involves accessing large amounts of data, these standards are critical. Security is a prominent concern, but a telematics structure can help address specific security requirements. For example, a telematics team could have three layers—the database (storage layer), the web application programming interface (API) [the middle layer], and the web application (the client layer). Having the Web API as a middle layer prevents unauthorized data access, which can occur when the database is directly connected to the web app that the client has access to. This is because the Web API should comply with OAuth 2.0, another industry-standard security protocol. Encryption at rest is another security protocol that protects the information stored in the telematics database or the hard drives in the cloud. It is evident that security is necessary for telematics, so it is worth noting current telematics protocols to understand how these challenges may evolve as EV telematics develops. Security will not only affect the telematics process but will also influence the overall security defense mechanisms integrated into advanced vehicle software. With initial progress being made in systems like ADAS, EV telematics should help take additional steps toward integrating more assistive driver features into EVs. This would also be true not only for conventional vehicles on the market today but also for autonomous vehicles planned for the future. Fully autonomous vehicles are what the industry hopes to make in the future. EV telematics will still have to address the list of concerns currently being identified before reaching that point. ## Maintaining Electrification Through the Telematics Journey Over the next decade, EV telematics in the automotive industry is likely to evolve. There is no sure way to express a timeline or indicate what milestones will be achieved, but growth should occur, nonetheless. Exploring the capabilities that telematics and analytics can provide for modern transportation has opened a door that will be hard to close. Organizations should continue investing in a proper telematics solution, especially as the path toward electrification intensifies, because there will never be such a thing as too much data. ## An Efficient Telematics Solution can Guarantee Three Things: * No data loss * An organized security defense mechanism * Performance optimization An organized security defense mechanism Performance optimization Performance, especially, should be viewed as an art, because only certain organizations will value this aspect of telematics. Even for organizations within the industry that may not need to implement telematics as often as others, the process should still be looked at as an insurance policy. Uncertainty is not a feeling many organizations enjoy during certain processes and procedures, so telematics can help add visibility when unclear data leads to malfunctions or failures. The complexity of product development should increase as the industry seeks to build more sophisticated EVs with innovative technology—this will require the use of tedious EV telematics and data insights to ensure these products operate as intended. ### Leave a Comment: We'd love to hear from you on this topic. ------------------------------------------------------------ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: Q: What is Electric Vehicle Telematics? A: While glancing into the future of automotive and identifying potential opportunities, challenges, successes, and failures the industry should encounter as it shifts toward electrification, electric vehicle telematics will remain a vital component. The rise in data dependency in the automotive industry is widely acknowledged, but it remains so critical that it warrants reemphasizing—especially as the industry navigates the early stages of a new, electrified era. Sophisticated vehicles can achieve and maintain efficient operation while meeting safety performance standards through the telematics and analytics incorporated into the product development process. The importance of pulling information through telematics will grow in parallel with the complexity of EV development, both now and in the future, as telematics becomes more complex with greater access to and use of data. The EV market is driving the industry's shift, meaning that telematics, along with a meticulous analytics plan, will add valuable context to the information collected by products’ software and integrated technology systems. To maintain the development of safety-optimized vehicles with advanced technology,  telematics is a needed asset. Electric vehicle telematics can be defined in the same manner as the general form of telematics in automotive, but with the scope adjusted to an electrification lens. Again, with the way the automotive world is evolving, the data-relevant side of product development, software, and technology advancement will remain a key factor in how organizations can grow and succeed in the future. More specifically, transitioning to an EV-focused industry should boost demand for EV telematics solutions that provide organizations with valuable information and extensive data insights. Though the mass adoption of EVs is expected to benefit the environment by reducing global oil dependency, there are immediate constraints—such as range anxiety. Other external factors will affect EV telematics optimization, as they also directly affect other processes within electrification. Though range anxiety reflects concern about EV battery efficiency, it is important, given the currently limited access to EV charging infrastructure. Though telematics may not eliminate range anxiety, it is a solution tool that should alleviate this concern. There are additional organizational benefits that telematics can provide, but before examining them, it is worth discussing how EV telematics work. Q: How Does Electric Vehicle Telematics Work? A: The process or methodology of EV telematics can be both iterative and continuous. When organizations prioritize their data by implementing a proper telematics solution, gathering the various types of vehicle data is merely the first step. The connected telematics device integrated into the vehicle will communicate that information. This device is often referred to as a “black box,” which is interconnected via a CAN bus. It also includes a modem and a SIM card that allows for communication. The black box transfers the data to the cloud for visual display. Organizations can access that information via whatever telematics software/application they use. This cyclic exchange is where analytics can be applied, which could be considered one of the more important aspects of telematics altogether. The good thing about telematics is that, depending on the organization, there are multiple applications to use. Some teams may use Azure, while others may use Amazon Web Services. Nonetheless, organizations will want to use something that best stores their data points in the cloud. By displaying data points in charts or any other visuals, all of that valuable information can be identified and extracted. Organizations can then develop thorough analytical insights, which allow them to make decisions as they see fit. This telematics process, or journey, will look similar to many of those who go through it. Again, there are particular ways to approach this process that best reflect organizational needs, but in essence, information is pulled, stored, and transformed into actionable data. This journey directly influences how organizations use telematics in product development, a critical asset as OEMs introduce new EV models. Since the telematics device is connected to the vehicle, including its hardware and sensors, it can display EV data such as battery life, trip distance/time, speed, acceleration, Global Positioning System or GPS, and vehicle maintenance components. In addition, telematics directly connecting to EV subsystems and the testing involved allows for more efficient subsystem interaction altogether. For example, the infotainment subsystems in an EV will most likely become more complex to keep pace with advances in technology that enable more advanced driver usability. Another example would include vehicle components such as dash cameras, which are a key assistive driver feature that will most likely continue to be integrated into EV models in the future. Overall, the CAN bus enables multiple components to communicate and transmit data. It can be viewed as a highway through which all that information travels. Q: The Future of Telematics in EV Development? A: EV telematics will play a critical role in both the software and system integration involved in the products’ overall development and in shaping the future of the automotive industry. EV charging, an entire topic in itself, is one prime example of how far the telematics journey can extend. In addition, there are several considerations the industry has yet to identify for the future of automotive electrification. Some problems cannot be anticipated or predicted, underscoring a greater need for EV telematics and analytics. Capturing and reporting large amounts of data within connected EV systems offers benefits for the electrified vehicles that OEMs hope to develop. Q: What are the Main Benefits of Telematics within EV Development? A: So, what overall benefits do telematics add to the development of EVs? The most immediate benefit that EV telematics can deliver is turning an organization’s vehicle data into usable assets, as the data's context enables action. More often than not, the context of this information provides evidence to justify the decisions being made. Overall, this contextual evidence eliminates the chance of any ambiguity or confusion in the process. The integration of telematics into vehicles has enabled easy access to software and features that improve several other aspects of organizational activity. Areas such as product safety, performance, and environmental sustainability can be directly affected by telematics. In product safety, telematics devices in an EV can collect information relevant to safety. For instance, in the event of a crash or collision, vehicles can request emergency assistance by using telematic device data to identify the incident. In addition, telematics can gather and report significant data on driver behavior, such as moments of sharp braking and intense acceleration. The internet resource can even enhance vehicle usability when integrated into the telematics system; real-time notifications for navigation, texting, weather tracking, and news reports connect back to product and user safety. These different safety aspects will be especially critical, given that the development of newer EV models should include autonomous-assistive features. Tracking a vehicle’s performance and productivity offers several benefits. Telematics systems should be able to report vehicle diagnostics and display a vehicle’s health status in real time. For EVs, this is important because EV telematics can monitor battery life and range. Gathering this performance data is another way to reduce the chance of breakdowns and to maintain proper risk management overall. One of the primary concerns electrification aims to address is environmental impact, so collecting data relevant to sustainability is another advantage of EV telematics. Whether displaying battery life, temperature, or range, sustainability data will provide relevant information that can support thorough analytics. Also, EV subsystems and components testing may rely on telematics software and systems to streamline the process. Overall, newer vehicles require more high-level software capabilities and should be incorporated into EVs over the next decade. This may increase the amount of code in vehicular software, adding another layer of complexity to EV development. So, the additional lines of code will increase complexity and the overall level of integration required. Q: What are the Key Considerations for EV Telematics? A: EV telematics is one particular aspect of a larger electrification picture, and there are numerous things to consider. Starting with the EV market as a whole, the potential cost of new EVs may create disparities in the consumer market. It is clear that a handful of supply chain issues have arisen from the pandemic, and its lingering effects may continue to cause disruptions as OEMs and suppliers try to recover from organizational setbacks. Depending on how the industry progresses over the next decade, the development of EV models could either get off to a slow start or move at a brisk pace. Either way, that could affect the implementation of telematics systems into electrified vehicles. In addition, the growth of EVs may not be limited to electric cars and hybrids. OEMs have already started advertising their new electrified trucks, which has raised eyebrows about what additional electrified vehicles can be made. The industry could lean toward developing electrified motorbikes, as well as electric semi-trucks and/or service vehicles. The first step would be achieving electrification and the mass implementation of EVs, but exploring these potential possibilities can create concerns about how EV telematics will be addressed with this added layer of known and unknown constraints. An increase in diverse EV transportation would also require additional infrastructure for EV load management. Again, this may include EV charging stations, EV testing facilities, and battery manufacturers. Nonetheless, the development of these external electrification assets would be heavily data-dependent, creating opportunities for telematics and analytics. As briefly noted previously, the telematics journey handles large amounts of data. That can be a concern in itself, but it raises the question of how different organizations can understand that information. Of course, if an organization does not know how to address its data, it can reach out to other organizations that offer telematics services. Regardless, being aware of the amount of data available and understanding how to develop a proper telematics solution that supports thorough analytics is an important consideration. This leads to an examination of the impact security has on EV telematics and vice versa. Certain security protocols apply to telematics—encrypted certificates and the Secure Sockets Layer or SSL, for example. Since telematics involves accessing large amounts of data, these standards are critical. Security is a prominent concern, but a telematics structure can help address specific security requirements. For example, a telematics team could have three layers—the database (storage layer), the web application programming interface (API) [the middle layer], and the web application (the client layer). Having the Web API as a middle layer prevents unauthorized data access, which can occur when the database is directly connected to the web app that the client has access to. This is because the Web API should comply with OAuth 2.0, another industry-standard security protocol. Encryption at rest is another security protocol that protects the information stored in the telematics database or the hard drives in the cloud. It is evident that security is necessary for telematics, so it is worth noting current telematics protocols to understand how these challenges may evolve as EV telematics develops. Security will not only affect the telematics process but will also influence the overall security defense mechanisms integrated into advanced vehicle software. With initial progress being made in systems like ADAS, EV telematics should help take additional steps toward integrating more assistive driver features into EVs. This would also be true not only for conventional vehicles on the market today but also for autonomous vehicles planned for the future. Fully autonomous vehicles are what the industry hopes to make in the future. EV telematics will still have to address the list of concerns currently being identified before reaching that point. ------------------------------------------------------------ ABOUT THIS CONTENT ------------------------------------------------------------ Source: https://lhpiot.com/blog/what-is-electric-vehicle-telematics Author: James Roberts Published: May 9, 2022 This content is provided for informational purposes. Please visit the original source for the most up-to-date information.