Preserving Vehicle Residual Value: Targa Telematics transforms journey data into asset value

With depreciation accounting for over 40% of the total cost of ownership¹, residual value has become a strategic lever for fleet managers. Whether owners or long-term renters, they all share the same imperative: protecting their mobile capital.
At Targa Telematics – a global leader in IoT solutions and digital platforms for connected mobility – this challenge finds a technological answer. Through advanced fleet management solutions, the company helps businesses actively and continuously enhancing the value of their thermal, electric, and hybrid vehicles, from day one to return or resale.

Resale begins with the first kilometers

Anticipating maintenance, preventing misuse, detecting abnormal driving behavior or mileage discrepancies, documenting history, and much more: the Targa Telematics platform puts data at the service of value. This intelligent monitoring is far from optional: it delivers better-maintained assets, clearer histories, greater buyer confidence, and, often, avoided penalties.

Concrete levers to protect or increase vehicle value

Targa Telematics’ technological solutions operate across multiple dimensions:

• Maintenance tracking (anomaly detection, preventive scheduling) to anticipate breakdowns, reduce premature wear, and ensure optimal return conditions.
• Mileage monitoring to alert in case of contractual overrun, secure purchase options, and prevent costly adjustments.
• Driving style analysis (aggressiveness, braking, average speed) to raise driver awareness, improve road safety, and reduce accidents.
• Vehicle security, with solutions like Stolen Vehicle Recovery (SVR), enabling rapid location and recovery in case of theft via 24/7 operational support, and Smart Vehicle Protector (SVP), an evolution of SVR with AI-based predictive functions to prevent theft attempts and minimize losses.
• Remarketing scorecard, which consolidates indicators on vehicle usage and lifespan (highway vs. city mileage, frequency of cold short trips, accidents, and maintenance history).
• Electric vehicle charging behavior monitoring, which tracks charging habits and identifies practices harmful to EV lifespan and value (e.g., fully discharging the battery, always charging to 100%, or frequent use of ultra-fast charging).

Each module becomes a proactive tool for value preservation and driver awareness, helping maintain performance and residual value.

“Our goal is not just to optimize vehicle usage, but to structure every decision around its final valuation. It’s a legacy-focused vision of fleet management, and our solutions are designed to make it operational – both in the field and in financial reporting.” – Samia Arfaoui, Country Manager Targa Viasat France.

Electric vehicles: complex valuation simplified by technological innovation

With the growing electrification of fleets, managing the residual value of EVs is becoming a challenge in its own right. These vehicles represent a significant investment, especially in long-term rentals, but their valuation is more complex than combustion-engine models due to several factors:

• Constantly evolving technology
• Wide heterogeneity between brands and models
• Lack of long-term evaluation standards
• Persistent regulatory uncertainty

In the used market, this opacity fuels the perception of rapid depreciation, largely due to the absence of reliable indicators on battery condition or actual usage.

“In this context, telematics becomes a reassurance factor. Targa Telematics’ solutions bring transparency, traceability, and standardization to EV evaluation.”– continues Samia Arfaoui.

As with thermal vehicles, the solutions collect and analyze precise data throughout the lifecycle (driving style, maintenance, usage profile) and provide a crucial insight: battery condition (wear, cycles, type of charging), assessed through a scoring system based on manufacturer recommendations.
This data creates a digital, objective, and continuously updated “maintenance log” that simplifies resale value estimation. According to industry studies, a well-monitored battery can increase an EV’s resale value by up to 20%², a compelling argument for fleet managers and remarketing operators.

In a market marked by price, timing, and logistics uncertainty, the ability to control a vehicle’s value becomes a strategic skill. With Targa Telematics, it becomes a daily reality.

“We make the real usage of a vehicle visible and measurable, which reassures future buyers and helps maintain or improve residual value – for both thermal and electric vehicles” concludes Samia Arfaoui.