How To Carry Out Home EV Charging for Fleets at Scale
WORDS BY JET CHARGE
As more Australian businesses electrify their fleets, the initial decisions often focus on vehicle procurement, charging speeds or CO₂ reporting. But there are two essential questions that are being overlooked: what is the most effective way of setting up charging of your fleet, and what’ s the difference between initial pilots and doing it at scale?
The proper way to do it scale
When vehicles are garaged at home overnight, home charging is the most cost-effective, scalable solution. However, as these are tool of trade vehicles, not every person that is provided an EV will be an“ EV evangelist” – to them: they are just cars for work. That’ s why the charging experience needs to feel safer and more convenient than filling up a petrol tank.
If we look globally to more advanced EV markets, the safest employee charging solution is what our electrical standards already prescribe:
• A wall-mounted EV charger
• Installed on a dedicated, isolated circuit by a licensed electrician
• A certificate of electrical safety( CES) issued for every install.
Combined with centralised software, that looks after EV charging across your entire organisation, this model supports scale, compliance and safety across a distributed workforce.
As Shawn Ticehurst, Head of Research from Australia’ s largest insurer IAG, recently stated:“[ For ] an electric vehicle that’ s not damaged, and with charging equipment that’ s installed correctly, the risk of fire is zero.”
That’ s the benchmark. And it’ s why many of Australia’ s most risk-mature organisations are choosing JET Charge + Home, our Charging as a Service solution purpose-built for home fleet charging.
How exactly JET Charge + ticks all the boxes for risk and compliance mitigation? All installations are consistent; chargers are monitored in realtime and are maintained annually to ensure ongoing compliance. By retaining ownership of every charger under this model, JET Charge assumes the responsibility for performance, faults, maintenance, upgrades and eventual decommissioning.
Your organisation pays a single flat monthly fee and outsources the complexity and risk of managing employee home charging. It’ s everything needed for at-scale deployment, with nothing left to chance.
Early pilots – are Mode 2 cables an option?
Mode 2 portable charges are increasingly marketed as an easy solution for tool-of-trade fleet vehicles. On paper, the key benefit they provide is not needing to install a new circuit in employee homes.
However, this perceived simplicity comes with some risks, which need to be mitigated, even for early-stage trials. Organisations need to be cautious when it comes to their employee’ s homes.
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