Fleet route physics-based modeling

A method for operating a fleet of vehicles having a central recharging location, comprising:

• operating at least a first vehicle of the fleet and a second vehicle of the fleet with different physical characteristics in response to a completion rate being greater than a confidence threshold, where each of the first vehicle and the second vehicle only externally recharge at the central recharging location without external recharging occurring on a respective route of each of the first vehicle and the second vehicle and where the completion rate is generated by:
• for each of the first vehicle and the second vehicle, entering the respective route of a plurality of routes via a fleet management system (FMS) communicatively coupled to a physics-based simulation system;
• validating each route via the physics-based simulation system, the physics-based simulation system comprising a vehicle model that simulates operation of a virtual vehicle and a segmentation model;
• storing collected simulation data in a data lake;
• and
• generating a statistical summary report based on simulation data stored in the data lake and displaying the statistical summary report to a user;
• in response to the completion rate being greater than the confidence threshold, selecting one of the first vehicle and the second vehicle to send on one route of the plurality of routes based on a highest completion rate and sending an unselected vehicle on another route of the plurality of routes based on a next highest completion rate;
• and
• in response to a route not being matched to either of the first vehicle and the second vehicle due to the completion rate not being greater than the confidence threshold, sending a hybrid vehicle or internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle on the route.