Our online EV charge points are fully compliant with OCPPversion 1.6. This gives the charge point owner full flexibility to choose and change the online billing and management platform provider on-demand without needing to replace the charge points. The display screens are user friendly and show how much electricity the car is using, how long the car has been charging and the overall consumption of the charge once it is completed.

Once load reduces on a charger on the cluster (typically when cars are full up and don’t need more power), the Master unit will dynamically monitor and manage the requirement and offer more power to the rest of the chargers as needed. Why is load balancing important? The unit supports both single-phase power connection to each connector separately, with output from 3.7kw to 7.4kW per connector. As the number of electric vehicle charging pointsin the United Kingdom increases, understanding the different ways that they work can be beneficial for improving business and consumer functionality. When one vehicle is accessing a charging point on the cluster the maximum amount of power is available for the electric vehicle. At this point, the load is not being balanced as it is being distributed to a sole vehicle.Installing EV charging points at your businessguarantees that you’re prepared for the future and are ready to meet the demands of your employees and the increasing number of electric vehicles on the road. Though the public infrastructure for EV charging is growing in terms of capacity and efficiency year on year, it’s difficult to rely on public charging points if you have an EV vehicle – that’s why home charging points are becoming increasingly popular.

Embracing and utilising new technology can be exciting but by knowing how to use your charging points to the best of their ability, you can make sure you’re getting the most out of them . However, as more vehicles are connected and require power to charge up, the Master unit will monitor and manage the cluster to ensure the total consumption is not exceeded. This may involve dynamically reducing the power provided to the remainder of the cluster, e.g. reducing the rate down to 7kW per point. A business fleet of 12 electric vehicles would need 12 singular charging points with 22kw of charging power. If these vehicles were all to attempt to charge at full power without load balancing, the total power requirement would be up to 264kW you’d need to expand the grid connection which would incur huge infrastructure costs and utility claims.With the Sevadis Cloud being OCPP compliant, CPOs can benefit from always operating on the latest version of the platform. This accessibility means that no manual labour is required for software or firmware updates. With load balancing, the operation of a business fleet isn’t even restricted by slower charging as the vehicles can retire to charging points when work is done in the afternoon and be conveniently charged overnight in downtime.