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Electric mobility is more than just choosing the vehicles; taking crucial factors into account during the planning stage can significantly reduce both the initial investment and operating costs.

The charging infrastructure must be appropriate for your fleet! An overview of the most common charging solutions and the latest technology can help with your planning.

To ensure you have the right strategy and roadmap for deploying the right charging infrastructure for electric fleet, you may want to consider requesting a feasibility study from The Mobility House:

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Charging with electricity is less expensive than filling up with gas or diesel. To make the most of this advantage, you should be aware of the important cost factors and variables involved in supplying your fleet with electricity. The following are important considerations when choosing your EV charging:

Set-Up Costs

The question of how much charging infrastructure costs does not have a standardized answer, because essentially the installation costs depend on the individual conditions at your location and the subsidies available. Investment, installation and operating costs tend to rise as charging power increases.

Future-Proof

Even if you only want to electrify part of your fleet to start with, you should make sure that your charging infrastructure can grow with your fleet. From the outset: conduits, cables and load management should be designed in such a way that new charging stations can be installed at a later date without too much effort or expense. Tip: avoid solutions that tie you to one vehicle or charging infrastructure manufacturer. When it comes to charging management solutions, pay special attention to compliance with open communication standards (industry standard is OCPP 1.6 or later).

What Is the Grid Connection?

The grid connection connects your company premises to the electrical grid. All the electricity for your business comes from the grid connection unless you generate some of the electricity yourself. A sufficient connected load is important for reliably charging your fleet. Whether your grid connection is sufficient depends mainly on the number of simultaneous charging processes and the charging power. A charging and energy management system such as ChargePilot can help avoid a costly, and sometimes outright impossible, expansion of the grid connection.

Enlisting help from a company like The Mobility House can save you time and money, both in upfront costs for the chargers and also in ongoing electricity costs. A feasibility study will outline the following components:

Designing Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

• Analysis of routes and schedules
• Analysis of depot infrastructure (grid connection and energy requirement)
• Optimization of charging processes with analysis software
• Creation of a customer-specific energy and infrastructure concept