Workplace Charging Facts: Announcing Results from our pilot with Hertz Leasing

Look at all the cars parked at your office or warehouse parking lot. Now imagine 20, 50, 100% of them are electric. And imagine that it’s your job to make sure they are charged. This is not sci-fi, it is already the reality in several states and counties and almost inevitably in most of them within ten years.

When you need dozens or hundreds of chargers in your parking lot – how do you get power for all of them? How do you get enough energy? How do you balance your resources so you can get the infrastructure and the energy cost-effectively? Most importantly – how do you do it such that no driver gets stuck, and no one has to waste time at public charging or getting out in the middle of the day to move cars on / off the chargers?

This was the subject of the pilot and study we ran with Hertz Israel’s leasing business this year, which has now concluded successfully. We built a microgrid-enabled, scalable managed charging facility that integrated grid and solar electricity and ran it with drivers for four months. We collected data about driver and charging behavior, ranges and issues, power and energy output, infrastructure and energy costs and optimized the system for different scenarios.

We will be posting some of the learnings here, but if you want to learn more – contact us to discuss best practices for fleet / workplace charging.