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Business EV Charging
Business EV charging, from one bay to a whole estate
Charging that bills correctly, reports properly and grows with the fleet.
What it involves
Somebody has to account for the electricity
Business EV charging covers a lot of ground, from a couple of bays outside a small office to a multi-site estate with a mixed fleet. What they share is that somebody has to account for the electricity, and that is usually what turns a simple installation into a complicated one.
We design around that from the start. Who is charging, whose budget the energy comes out of, and what has to be reported are decided before any unit is specified, because retrofitting billing onto an installation is far harder than designing it in.
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Who is actually charging, and who pays
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Who is actually charging, and who pays
On most business sites there are at least three groups: staff in their own vehicles, company or pool vehicles, and visitors. They should not all be treated the same, and on a shared supply they should not all be billed the same either.
Every unit we fit meters its own sessions, so charging can be free for staff as a benefit, charged at cost, charged at a margin for visitors, or recharged to a department. That is a configuration decision rather than a hardware one, but it depends on the hardware being able to do it.
- Staff, fleet and visitor charging separated and billed differently
- Access control so bays are not blocked by whoever arrives first
- Energy costs allocated to the right cost centre rather than the building
- Reporting your finance team can actually reconcile
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Sizing it around the business, not the car park
The temptation is to count parking spaces and install that many chargers. That is almost always wrong and always expensive. What matters is how many vehicles need charging on the same day, how long they are there, and how much energy each one needs.
On a typical office site that maths produces far fewer chargers running far slower than people expect, which is both cheaper to install and easier on the supply. On a fleet site it produces the opposite answer.
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Multi-site estates
Where a business has several sites the useful thing is a single platform across all of them, so usage, cost and faults are visible in one place rather than site by site.
It also means the rollout can be phased across the estate on evidence rather than on whoever asks loudest. We would rather instrument two sites properly and use what they show than guess at ten.
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Growing without digging twice
Business demand for charging grows, and the expensive part of adding bays later is the groundwork, not the chargers. Laying containment and cable capacity for where you expect to be in three years, while the ground is already open, is the single biggest saving available on a commercial installation.
We size that at the survey and tell you what the extra capacity costs now against what it would cost to come back for it.
The units we fit
Equipment that suits this kind of site
01 · Commercial pedestal
Rolec Quantum
7.4kW or 22kW
A twin socket pedestal with payment and lighting built in. The usual answer for a public or paid car park.
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02 · Heavy duty wall unit
Rolec SecuriCharge
7.4kW or 22kW
A tougher wall mounted unit for workplaces and sites where a charger is likely to get knocked about.
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03 · Commercial pedestal
Rolec BasicCharge
7.4kW or 22kW
A straightforward twin socket pedestal for when you want working bays without the extras.
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Questions
What people ask us about this
Yes. Every unit meters its own sessions, so you can charge staff at cost, at a margin, or offer it free as a benefit, and keep that separate from company vehicles. It is worth deciding before installation because the billing shapes the design.
Fewer than most people expect on an office site, and usually running slower. What matters is how many vehicles need charging on the same day and how long they are parked, not how many spaces you have. The survey does that arithmetic.
Yes, on a single platform, so usage, cost and faults are visible across the estate rather than site by site. That also lets you phase the rollout on evidence rather than on who asks first.
Yes, and it costs far less if the groundwork is sized for it now. Containment and cable capacity laid while the ground is open turns a future expansion into a day's work instead of digging the car park up again.
Yes. Most businesses qualify through the Workplace Charging Scheme, and we confirm eligibility, prepare and submit the application and supply the installation evidence it requires.
Most faults are diagnosed remotely and cleared the same day without anyone attending. Where a visit is needed it is one of our own electricians, and sites that cannot afford downtime can hold maintenance cover with agreed response times.
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