CHARGE MANAGEMENT EV FLEET PROJECTS FOR LARGE SCALE CAN REDUCE OpEx and CapEx

By Charles Morris

If there’s one topic that everyone in the EV infrastructure eld is talking about these days, it’s charge management. As organizations of all sizes electrify their vehicles, they o en nd that power consumption is a major constraint. Charging stations, especially those that serve large eets and/or heavy-duty vehicles, can suck up vast amounts of power, and simply plugging an array of chargers into the wall (so to speak) is not a good option. Using charge management to manage power levels and charging times enables a eet or charging provider to limit its peak power usage and thus lower its electricity bills, but it also o ers several other bene ts. Managing charging times can ensure that vehicles are charged with renewable energy as much as possible. Planning infrastructure projects with charge management in mind can allow companies to get their charging done with fewer and/or lower-power chargers, and it can help to avoid long delays in getting new electrical service set up by the local utility. e Mobility House provides charge management systems to a wide variety of customers in Europe and in