Electric vehicle (EV) charging is an essential workplace benefit in this post-pandemic era of hybrid work. To remain competitive, offices need to pick up the installation pace to meet employee EV charging demand. Below are six tips for offering EV charging at your workplace so you can attract and retain top talent, while meeting your business goals.
1. Assess the Need for Charging at Your Company
An employee survey is a perfect place to start assessing the demand for EV charging stations. Ask employees whether they own an EV and where they charge it, or if they’re considering buying an EV and if access to charging at work would make them more likely to. Based on how many employees already drive electric or express interest, you can start to plan your charging.
2. Plan Ahead to Meet Future Demand
Base your initial EV offering around your employee survey results and plan for more employees to have electric vehicles within the next few years, especially if you’re constructing a new building or located in a place with high EV density. You should also prepare for an increase in the number of employees driving EVs by making additional parking spaces “EV Ready” with conduit and electrical wiring.
Workplace charging grew nearly 3x faster than the number of new charging stations in 2023.
3. Charge Up More Employees with Waitlist
Waitlist lets employees get in line at charging stations when all locations are busy and conveniently notifies them when it’s time to go plug in. This helps improve employee productivity by making it easier to charge, while keeping stations in use and eliminating the need for you to create and manage a homegrown system (like an email list) to mediate access to stations. You can also use Waitlist to get a sense of demand for charging and grow your program over time.
4. Create Smart Access and Pricing Policies
Create an EV charging policy that is easy to scale beyond the first EV driver so that you can accommodate more people over time. A networked EV charging solution will help you maximize station use by making charging easy for the drivers you want to charge (employees only, or members of the public?), as well as give you the control to set fees that are fair to drivers but will encourage them to move on after they’re done charging.
5. Keep Employees Happy with Networked Charging
As you offer EV charging, more employees will drive electric and your stations will get busy: people might even start showing up to work earlier to get a charging spot. Fortunately, networked EV charging not only lets your employees get in line to use a station through Waitlist but also check the charging status from their phones and get updates when they’re done charging, making sure everyone can stay focused on doing work instead of getting a charge.
6. Make Your Life Easier with Networked Charging
Networked charging isn’t just better for employees, it’s easier for you, too. You can use your ChargePoint dashboard to see how many employees are charging, manage energy consumption to reduce costs and quickly check your emission reductions. You can also monitor stations remotely and adjust charging fees to keep stations in use.
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Org publish date: 01/18/2018
