Fleet Charging Cost Optimization
Turn Depot Charging Into Your Cheapest Fuel
Energy cost is a big part of running an electric fleet. SmartCharge plans charging to lower what the depot pays, and shows you what you saved.
The bill has two parts, not one
You pay for energy (how many kilowatt-hours, at rates that change by the hour) and for demand (your highest power spike in the billing period). Charging every vehicle on arrival makes both worse. SmartCharge manages both together.
How SmartCharge Lowers the Bill
Applied automatically, under the constraint that every vehicle still reaches its target by departure.
Time-of-use shifting
SmartCharge moves charging into your cheaper hours automatically, while still meeting every departure, so lower rates never cost you a route.
Demand-charge peak shaving
Demand charges are billed on your highest power spike in the billing period. SmartCharge plans charging to keep that peak low.
A 48-hour plan around your tariff
Enter your utility tariff once, with its time-of-use periods and demand charges. SmartCharge plans the next 48 hours in 15-minute slots to lower what the depot pays.
Savings You Can Check
SmartCharge compares what you paid with what the same energy would have cost if every vehicle had charged on arrival, and shows the assumptions behind the number.
Against a charge-on-arrival baseline
See energy savings day by day, and demand-charge savings so far in the current billing period.
Priced from your real tariff
Each session is priced across your tariff periods, so the figures reflect your site, not a generic rate.
A daily record of your peak
The demand report keeps each day's highest 15-minute site power, so you can see what sets the demand charge.
Demand response ready
SmartCharge is OpenADR compatible, so a depot can take part in utility demand-response programs and turn flexibility into another source of savings.
Turned on per depot
Cost optimization is enabled depot by depot and uses the utility tariff you enter for that depot. With it off, the depot keeps the same safe load management, without price-based planning.
Charge on schedule, and pay less for it.
Bring your tariff and we will show you where the savings are.
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