Motiv Appoints Scott Griffith as CEO – Inexperienced Fleet

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Ford's Autonomous Vehicles and Mobility Businesses, Zipcar, and TrueMotion are among the companies on Scott Griffith's resume working in the automotive technology industry. - Photo: Motiv...

Ford’s Autonomous Autos and Mobility Companies, Zipcar, and TrueMotion are among the many firms on Scott Griffith’s resume working within the automotive know-how trade.

Photograph: Motiv Energy Methods/Automotive Fleet


Motiv has introduced it has appointed Scott Griffith is its new Chief Govt Officer and board member.

Griffith has spent the previous 30 years founding, main, scaling and advising main technology-based firms.

A Historical past of Profitable Management

Previous to becoming a member of Motiv, Griffith served as CEO of Ford’s Autonomous Autos and Mobility Companies, the place he oversaw the event of Degree 4 autonomous automobiles in addition to overseeing Ford’s portfolio of strategic investments in future mobility companies.

As CEO of Zipcar for over 10 years, he led the automotive sharing firm from its seed stage. Throughout his tenure at Zipcar, Scott was additionally credited with managing the event and recognition of your entire automotive sharing class.

After later facilitating the strategic sale of Zipcar to Avis Price range Group, Griffith turned an Govt-in-Residence at Common Catalyst Companions, the place he was an lively Chairman in portfolio firms.

Throughout his time there, he additionally co-founded TrueMotion, a cell phone and IOT-based telematics platform with a purpose to extend protected driving by way of real-time, AI-based driver sensing and scoring.

The corporate was merged with Cambridge Cellular Telematics and the mixed companies now energy the info assortment and associated AI/driver scoring methods for a lot of the auto insurance coverage suppliers within the U.S., and a rising quantity in Europe. 

Griffith was not too long ago appointed to the board at EVgo, a developer of large-scale fast-charging networks for electrical automobiles.

“Medium responsibility vehicles are the lifeblood of recent commerce and they’re additionally within the early adoption candy spot of auto electrification. Motiv’s progressive merchandise are displaying that it’s doable to assist the rising demand for native and quick route industrial trucking in a protected, cost-effective and sustainable method, with out the necessity for 300+ miles of battery vary or the excessive stage of disbursed publicly-accessible charging infrastructure required to assist passenger vehicles. I actually imagine Motiv will change into a big worthwhile operation and as we develop, we may have a giant constructive influence on the planet,” Griffith mentioned partially.

Evaluating its personal gross sales and deployment knowledge with public knowledge revealed by CALSTART in its Zeroing in on Zero Emissions Vehicles report, Motiv calculates almost half of the electrical step vans in California and almost one in 5 of the electrical step vans deployed nationwide carry the Motiv nameplate. 

In line with Motiv, 10 of the most important 20 medium-duty truck fleets in North America have deployed Motiv automobiles, together with Purolator, Vestis (previously Aramark), Cintas, and different main manufacturers. Since its founding in 2009, Motiv automobiles have collectively pushed 4 million miles and delivered roughly 240 million lbs of products. 

Griffith steps in after former Ford government Matt O’Leary, who was interim CEO following Tim Krauskopf’s departure final fall. O’Leary, who continues to function an lively Govt Chairman of Motiv Electrical’s board.

“Scott has a formidable monitor report of constructing groups and scaling companies within the know-how, transportation and mobility areas,” O’Leary mentioned. “We’re increasing our put in base of vehicles in massive fleets like Purolator, the main built-in freight, package deal and logistics supplier in Canada. Scott’s background is an ideal match for Motiv at this stage in our journey and I’m thrilled to have him on the workforce.”

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