EV charger at workplace

We have 4 x 2.

Again, no cost to employee.

In an effort to apease the begrudgers (because there will always be those in every company) the employee pays a nominal amount in our place.

It's been over a year since I was last in the office but from memory at that point we had 5 * 2 * 22kW chargers at work (so 10 total plugin points).

Free to use.

There's also a few that are in the business park for all to use, these are pay to use.

We have 6 for ~1,000 staff. All free but are 3.3kW.

Needless to say, they were causing some problems due to availability and low charge speed. Some users completely depended on the charge to get home (8hrs * 3.3 = 26.4kWh), others were happy to just take it when available and others never got a charge as they started later in the day. When we tried to mediate by splitting the charge-day in half we met resistance, mainly from the older vehicle/smaller capacity users who wanted to sit and charge all day.

If we were doing it again I'd have some 3.3kW chargers assigned to individual parking spots as "day-long" sessions and then a selection of 7kW chargers shared between two parking spots as "semi-day" sessions. That way the 7kW users don't need to physically move their vehicles, they can just release the charging cable at lunch-time and let the other user take up the charge.

DC would have been nice, but the local ESB transformer was already at it's limit.

I've started with a new company this year and our office is a shared office space - quite small - was delighted to see to chargers out front on the first day. however it turns out the management company charge €1.50 per hour for the use - I'm assuming it is probably on 3.3kw as it is a single pole with two plugs .. but at that rate I didn't even bother to enquire.

Thats a ball ache for sure. Ours are setup on timeslots and the charge session auto stops and you are expected to move... "Its a charging space not a parking space."

A fair usage policy was also setup from the get go, so no hogging the charge points all day. If someone buys a car that necessitates they hog the charge point all day then thats their problem. Once you set a precendent or give people something its very hard to take it back.

You'll probably now have to wait until all the low range cars are gone before you can change the policy unless you can get some new 11kW charge points installed, which sounds unlikely given you also have transformer limitations.

Wow, that's pretty impressive, must be a fairly forward thinking company

Who needs 26kWh to get home? Even in my pig slightly inefficient EV, I'm fairly sure I could manage over 100km in winter with 26kWh. Is it more likely to were avoiding charging at home by doing all their charging in work?

He was coming in via the motorway all the way in an older Leaf24 so was eating the watts. I think he needed 20kWh, but wanted the extra few for comfort (or heating)! Talk about keeping it tight!!

I think you've got the wrong end of the stick somehow. This is about workplace facilities, not domestic.

I didn't name the place, so I'm not sure how you seem so very sure of yourself. Involved in the commissioning of the turbines? You receive the monthly generation reports and alerts?

At this workplace specifically, the plant is powered by private turbines on prem, and feeds back to the grid. The turbines typically generate more than 400% of the campus needs. Including all the support services, water processing, kitchens, IT systems, facilities (like the in-house car chargers).

1 public DC 50 kW charger on the grounds. ~1300 parking spaces.

While that is true, when you choose an electricity provider who advertises 100% renewable electricity you are encouraging others providers to compete on those same grounds.

What makes no sense to me is when you have a provider like Bord Gais that has some plans that are “green” and others that are not. I assume what that means is only that they divide their total contribution to the grid into renewable and non-renewable sources and sell proportionate amounts of the respective plans.

Christ, do they pay bik on their coffee machine use and parking space as well? Miserable gits.

Is it a regulation now to have chargers. If not it should be.