Electric vehicle charging

EV charging for workplace and fleets

As EV ownership takes off, employees will increasingly travel to work in their own EVs and expect to access top-up charging while they work. Quite soon, there will be more EVs than internal combustion engine vehicles parked at workplaces during work hours.

Many workplaces also host vehicle fleets: cars for the salesforce and vans for deliveries are good examples. And if you own or manage fleets, you will probably want to switch to EVs, either now or in the future, so you will need EV charging facilities for your vehicles.

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Benefits that extend to all your building's power needs

Our Buildings as a Grid approach will help you devise a workplace and fleet EV charging strategy. It will transform your building or site into an energy hub and because is a gateway to electrifying the entire functionality of your building or site it is also an investment in the energy transition. The ecosystem we develop for your building will help you to monitor and optimise energy consumption as you add more electrical loads such as EV charging, on-site renewable energy generation, and even energy storage.

We have designed our Buildings as a Grid approach to be the most comprehensive and integrated energy transition offer on the market for building owners. These are just some of the things you will be able to do:

Integrate EV charging infrastructure that is secure, flexible and scalable into your building, with minimum disruption.
Operate and manage your EV chargers efficiently and cost-effectively.
Balance the load optimally across your charger network.
Avoid expensive peak energy prices through peak shaving or load shifting.
Run load shifting to manage your power use and control your energy costs.

Provide your employees with EV charging capabilities

You want to provide your employees with easy-to-use EV charging that is suitable for their vehicles and tailored to their needs, whether they park and leave their car for an entire working day or charge more quickly during shorter visits to site.

We can help you select and integrate the most suitable EV infrastructure, from a small scale deployment that you can grow over time, to larger deployment for your entire site. We will advise you of any modifications that are needed to the electrical infrastructure of your buildings to make them ready for EV charging and the energy transition.

Operate a modular charging infrastructure for indoor and outdoor use, mixing AC and DC chargers.
Easily scale up the infrastructure for more capacity or more power when needed.
Monitor the energy performance of your building and securely control energy assets.

Control the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your charger network for employees.
Make EV charging easy for your employees using your corporate employee radio frequency identification (RFID) cards and select your pricing policy for your visitors.
Operate charging according to your needs.

Make workplace charging easy for your workforce

Offering your employees easy-to-use EV charging that is suitable for their vehicles and tailored to their needs means providing chargers that will accommodate a variety of different vehicles. Our guide to the EV charging basics will put you on the right road.

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Electrify the fleet that supports your business

You want to electrify your fleet while ensuring business continuity which means disruption is not an option for you. We understand that. You need fast-charging capabilities so that your team can hit the road quickly.

We will help you to select and integrate the right EV charging infrastructure into your building so that your transition to an electric fleet is seamless and your site is ready for the energy transition.

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Leverage a modular, tested, proven and cyber secure charging infrastructure for indoor and outdoor use, that mixes regular and high charging speeds.
Scale up for more capacity or power when needed.
Ensure business continuity as you switch to an EV fleet.

Keep control of the total cost of ownership of your charger network and total cost of mobility (TCO and TCM).
Track your fleet's electricity consumption and costs, whether vehicles are on the road, at work or at home.
Monitor the energy performance and costs of your building and securely control energy assets.

Discover how to harness solar power to fuel your EV fleet.

La Poste, the French postal service company, is trialling the use of solar PV canopies and an energy storage system to fuel its mail delivery fleet. Read more about La Poste's demonstration project.

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Solve power capacity challenges with energy storage

Take control of your energy supply, reduce your costs, and position your building for a more sustainable future. Our energy storage systems provide all types of buildings with access to safe, reliable, efficient power management that harnesses the full potential of renewable sources. Discover how our energy storage systems enable you to access your own renewable energy when needed to charge EVs for your employees or fleet, yet avoid peak energy costs.

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How do I balance the load across EVs?

You need to control the EV charging load by controlling and balancing the available power capacity among your charging stations. EV load balancing enables to set the maximum allowable EV capacity. It automatically smooths the total EV peak demand to meet the available capacity at the grid connection. Eaton helps you set up optimally balance the load across your charging stations to optimise costs, earning and user experience.

Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere. We are guided by our commitment to do business right, to operate sustainably and to help our customers manage power ─ today and well into the future. By capitalizing on the global growth trends of electrification and digitalization, we’re accelerating the planet’s transition to renewable energy and helping to solve the world’s most urgent power management challenges.