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Business owners and fleet managers should utilise the data behind connected car technology to keep their fleets breakdown-free for longer, the AA has said.
The organisation reports that in 2017 the number of connected car-based insurance policies, which use data to calculate insurance costs, rose by 30% to nearly one million in the UK.
According to the AA, as the use of connected car technology products grows across the UK's fleets, data generation has become a key part of the business owner or fleet manager's role.
However, just 33% of managers use connected car data to improve safety and efficiency across their fleets, according to AA research.
Stuart Thomas, director of AA fleet and SME services, said: "We're keen to help businesses and fleet managers make best use of the available connected car technology benefits.
"The AA's Fleet Intelligence system generates invaluable data that can deliver huge improvements in risk management and efficiency.
"A recent Fleet Intelligence review, which analysed fleet-wide connected car data, revealed that an astonishing 36% of fleet breakdowns could have been prevented."
Thomas said the data identified the top avoidable faults that drivers experienced as coil, turbo and diesel particulate filter issues.
He added: "Our system also shows the average number of days that passed between fault development and breakdown, as well as identifying the total percentage of same day breakdowns.
"Not only does this highly valuable data have the potential to decrease levels of downtime, it also allows fleet managers to prioritise employee safety by allowing them to swiftly respond to dangerous faults which arise, providing the data generated is regularly analysed."
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