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RankNexus case study · EV fleet leasing

How an EV leasing company earned fleet enquiries from AI answers

Astranova Mobility went from missing in AI recommendations to appearing in over half of the prompts that matter.

Astranova Mobility · 6 months · Agency plan · Next.js

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About Astranova Mobility

Astranova Mobility is a full-stack EV asset management and leasing company. It helps commercial fleets go electric with operating leases, maintenance plans, certified renewed vehicles and energy packages.

Industry

EV leasing and fleet electrification

Buyers

Commercial fleet operators

Goal

More fleet enquiries from search and AI

Engagement

6 months, Agency plan

Organic clicks / month

4,410

▲ 142%

from 1,820

AI citations (of 25)

14

▲ 11 more

from 3

Average position

10.8

▲ 6.1 places

from 16.9

Fleet enquiries / month

152

▲ 138%

from 64

What this means AI citations rose from 3 to 14 of 25, and organic clicks and fleet enquiries more than doubled in the same period.

AI search visibility

The headline result: AI engines now name Astranova Mobility

Month 1 3 of 25

ChatGPT

Perplexity

Gemini

AI Mode

Copilot

Best EV leasing company in India

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Electric 3-wheeler lease for logistics

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EV fleet financing options

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Operating lease or buying EVs

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EV maintenance with uptime guarantee

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Month 6 14 of 25

ChatGPT

Perplexity

Gemini

AI Mode

Copilot

Best EV leasing company in India

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Electric 3-wheeler lease for logistics

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EV fleet financing options

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Operating lease or buying EVs

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EV maintenance with uptime guarantee

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Month by month

How the results built up

Month

What happened

Organic clicks

Fleet enquiries

Apr

Audit: 5 rivals mapped against 120 keywords

1,820

64

May

Schema, canonicals and llms.txt in place

2,050

72

Jun

First comparison pages live

2,480

86

Jul

8 comparison pages and 10 guides published

3,120

108

Aug

Weekly citation tracking begins

3,760

130

Sep

AI citations reach 14 of 25

4,410

152

The challenge

Competitors owned every comparison

Larger rivals dominated 'best EV leasing' searches, and AI engines repeated their lists. Astranova Mobility had clear service pages but no comparisons or answers to fleet finance questions.

What we did

Week 1

Audit and rival analysis

5 rivals mapped against 120 keywords.

Weeks 2–4

Technical base fixed

Schema, canonicals and llms.txt in place.

Months 2–4

Comparison pages

8 honest comparison pages and 10 fleet guides.

Months 4–6

Weekly citation tracking

Pages updated where engines cited rivals.

Organic clicks per month

Clicks grew 2.4x, and they convert to fleet enquiries

Monthly organic clicks rising from 1,820 to 4,410

Why it worked

Three decisions that made the difference

Honest comparisons

Comparison pages gave AI engines a fair, quotable answer to lease or buy questions.

Answers for fleet teams

Guides covered financing, uptime and total cost, the things operators ask first.

Weekly tracking

Pages were updated wherever an engine cited a rival instead.

Inside RankNexus

Every fix tied to a page and a result

● ● ● app.ranknexus.ai / astranova-mobility / fix-issues

Optimise for AI search

/fleet-operators

Cited in 4 engines

Applied

Add FAQ schema

/compare/ev-lease-vs-buy

9 questions

Applied

Rewrite title tag

/financing-partners

+92 clicks

Applied

Add internal links

18 guides

Site-wide

Applied

What this means Each fix is tied to a page and a result, so the team can see exactly what moved.

Before and after

Written for someone already comparing

Before

astranovamobility.com › fleet-operators

Astranova Mobility - Fleet Solutions

Smart mobility solutions for modern businesses. Get started today.

After

astranovamobility.com › fleet-operators

EV Leasing for Commercial Fleets | 2W, 3W and LCV Operating Leases

Lease electric vehicles with maintenance, uptime guarantees and energy packages. Share your fleet needs for a custom quote.

Search performance

Six months of search growth, at a glance

Growth came from fleet operators comparing leasing, financing and maintenance options for electric vehicles.

2.4x

more organic clicks a month: 1,820 in April, 4,410 in September

Search performance for astranovamobility.com, 1 Apr 2026 – 30 Sep 2026

Top queries in September

Clicks

Impressions

Apr position

Sep position

Gain

ev leasing india

540

13,900

18.6

3.7

▲ 14.9

electric 3 wheeler lease

382

9,700

21.4

5.5

▲ 15.9

ev fleet financing

311

8,200

17.9

6.3

▲ 11.6

electric lcv on lease

224

6,600

23.0

7.8

▲ 15.2

ev lease vs buy for fleets

187

5,100

19.2

6.9

▲ 12.3

What this means Fleet terms have low search volume but high value, so each new position counts for more.

Main keyword

From page two to the top of the fleet search

The fleet operators page moved up once it spoke to operators who were already comparing leasing partners.

Google result for ev leasing india, before and after

Position

4

from 19

Clicks / month

540

from 31

Click-through rate

3.9%

from 0.6%

What comes next

Where the next gains will come from

Vehicle-specific pages

Build pages for 2-wheeler, 3-wheeler and LCV leasing.

City-level fleets

Target operators in the cities where EV adoption is growing fastest.

Copilot citations

Win a first citation from the one engine that has not named Astranova yet.

AI answer

What fleet operators now see when they ask AI

AI engines now name Astranova Mobility when operators ask who can lease EVs to a commercial fleet.

4.7x

more AI citations: 3 of 25 prompt checks in April, 14 of 25 in September

AI answer naming Astranova Mobility, with the prompt shown

Prompts citing the brand

April

September

Change

ChatGPT

0 of 5

5 of 5

+5

Perplexity

3 of 5

5 of 5

+2

Gemini

0 of 5

3 of 5

+3

AI Mode

0 of 5

1 of 5

+1

Copilot

0 of 5

0 of 5

–

All engines

3 of 25

14 of 25

+11

Most cited pages

Cited by

/fleet-operators

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Mode

/compare/ev-lease-vs-buy

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini

/financing-partners

ChatGPT, Perplexity

What this means For B2B buyers, being named in the answer often decides who gets the first call.

Citation tracking

Citations tracked every week

RankNexus re-ran all five prompts on each engine every week. Darker cells mean more of the five prompts cited Astranova Mobility that week.

Weekly citation grid by AI engine

Top pages

The pages that drove the growth

Page

Clicks (Apr)

Clicks (Sep)

Growth

/

410

880

▲ 115%

/fleet-operators

120

720

▲ 500%

/compare/ev-lease-vs-buy

0

310

New

/financing-partners

64

295

▲ 361%

/compare/electric-3-wheeler-lease

0

265

New

Sales now hears 'ChatGPT recommended you' on calls with fleet operators, which we never expected a year ago.

Karan Mehta, Growth Lead, Astranova Mobility

Business result

Clicks that turned into fleet enquiries

Fleet enquiries are counted from form submissions in the analytics tool, filtered to organic and AI referrals.

+138%

fleet enquiries a month: 64 in April, 152 in September

Fleet enquiries from organic and AI referrals

Metric

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Growth

Organic clicks

1,820

2,050

2,480

3,120

3,760

4,410

▲ 142%

Fleet enquiries

64

72

86

108

130

152

▲ 138%

What this means Enquiries grew steadily, with sales now hearing AI recommendations on calls with fleet operators.

Key takeaways

Fleet operators now find Astranova Mobility when they ask who can lease EVs, and AI engines name it in more than half of the prompts that matter.

2.4x

organic clicks a month

14 of 25

AI prompt checks citing the brand

+138%

fleet enquiries