Dwell charging · Workplaces & fleets

The longest park of any property we model — and an empty lot every evening.

A workplace holds a car for about four hours. Nothing else we measure comes close. That makes charging the cheapest per-head benefit most employers can add, and it makes the groundwork for a fleet cheaper to lay now than later. What it does not make is a retail business, and this page will not pretend otherwise.

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A low-rise suburban office building at golden hour

Why it pays

Three cases, and they are not the ones from the other property types.

The cheapest benefit on the list

Level 2 is slow and cheap, which is exactly right when the car is there until five. Per employee reached, it costs a fraction of the benefits it sits alongside — and it is visible in the car park every single day, which almost nothing else on the list is.

The fleet you have not bought yet

Depot charging is the part of fleet electrification with the longest lead time, because it is electrical work and utility coordination rather than a purchase order. Putting capacity in while the lot is already open costs a fraction of coming back for it.

The hours you are not using

Your lot is empty from six in the evening until eight in the morning, and all weekend. That is more than half the week in which the same hardware could be serving the public instead of sitting idle — if the location suits it.

Where the workplace case is weaker, plainly

On a hotel or an apartment community, charging brings people who then spend money on the property. At an office it does not: the people are inside working, not shopping, so there is no second revenue stream to add and we do not model one. If a campus already has a cafe or a market with the room and the footfall to justify it, that is worth a conversation — but it is the exception, and we would rather say so than sell you a number that does not exist.

Two jobs, one lot

Employee parking and a fleet depot are different builds.

They are often on the same site and they are almost never the same installation. Worth separating before anyone prices anything.

Employee parking

Level 2 at the stalls — an eight-hour park does not need speed, it needs a full battery by home time.
Load management matters more than power: a dozen cars sharing a feed beats two cars on a bigger one.
Access control decides whether it is staff-only, staff at one rate and visitors at another, or open.
Start smaller than you think and leave conduit for the rest — the second phase is cheap if the first one planned for it.

Fleet & depot

Charging windows are the design input: vehicles back at six, out at six, and the whole schedule has to fit between.
This is where demand charges bite hardest, so the tariff shapes the build rather than the other way round.
Mixed Level 2 and DC is normal — overnight on the slow stalls, a fast unit for the vehicle that came back empty.
Utility lead time is usually the long pole. It is worth starting that conversation before the vehicles are ordered.

If the public-access idea is the interesting one for your site, that is a fast-charging question rather than a workplace one — the DC side is here, and the free evaluation will tell you whether your address actually draws traffic.

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