Fleet Charging
Long-cycle programs where regulation, capital, and grid reliability define the pace.
This interactive experience is the shipped product itself — the same application code customers run in production, mounted read-only in your browser over a real sample journey. Not a video, not a mockup: because the demo and the product are one codebase, it can never drift from the real thing.
Inside this journey
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Qualification
Confirm budget range, decision-makers, timeline (vehicle arrival), and basic technical constraints before investing in a full depot assessment.
Qualification Questions
Vehicle order and operational fit
- How many electric vehicles are on the purchase order?
- Do these vehicles reliably return to this single depot each night and require a full charge before first dispatch?
Technical constraints and site readiness
- If known, what is your facility's main utility service size or primary service amperage?
- Which site constraints should we factor into a depot assessment? (select all that apply)
Budget
- Is there an allocated budget range for depot electrification (site upgrades, chargers, software, and coordination)?
Decision authority and timeline
- Who will sign the final purchase or service agreement, and which other roles must be consulted (facilities, procurement, sustainability, fleet operations)?
- What is the target date the depot must be ready (vehicle arrival or required go‑live)?
- Would you be open to a 45–60 minute discovery call to validate these items and decide whether a full depot assessment is warranted?
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Depot Assessment
Map electrical capacity, vehicle duty cycles, shift schedules, utility rate structures, and stakeholder roles to quantify gaps and timeline risks.
Discovery Questions
Quick Depot Snapshot
- Share the basic facts I should know about your depot, including city, primary fleet type, and the number of vehicles currently based there.
- How many electric vehicles does your depot have on order, and what are their expected delivery windows?
- Which vehicle models and charging port types will your depot receive, and how many of each?
- Estimate how many daily dispatch cycles your incoming vehicles run, for example single overnight return, split shifts, or continuous routes.
- Does your depot currently have any dedicated charging hardware on site?
- What is your target date for having all arriving vehicles fully charged and dispatch-ready each morning?
Where the Current Setup Shows Its Limits
- If your utility service upgrade slips by three months, what breaks first at your depot?
- Who on your team is tracking the utility upgrade timeline and permit milestones right now?
- Describe your current main electrical service size and metering arrangement, including any on-site transformers or submeters.
- How often do peak demand events occur on your current rate plan, and what incremental cost do they add to a typical monthly bill?
- Which shifts or route types at your depot are most at risk of vehicles returning with less than 80 percent state of charge?
- What single infrastructure failure or missing permit at your site would make you stop the project immediately?
The Real Costs You're Facing
- Estimate the monthly incremental energy and demand cost your depot would see if all new EVs charged simultaneously overnight without load management.
- List the specific budget lines your team plans to offset with projected charging cost savings.
- Do you have internal targets for fleet electrification payback period or total cost of ownership thresholds?
- On your project, where would you be willing to accept higher up-front capital expense to reduce operating cost?
- Who on your leadership team would need to approve a capital ask for transformer or service upgrades?
What's Getting in the Way
- When was the last time a utility interconnection delay changed a project timeline at your depot, and what happened?
- Provide the headcount and roles available from your facilities and operations teams who could support electrical upgrades, permit filings, or contractor coordination.
- Name which external approvals in your service territory are typically the slowest, for example utility engineering study, AHJ inspection, or interconnection agreement.
- If the project requires capital beyond your current budget, what is your internal decision pathway and timeline for approval?
- Identify what would make your leadership walk away from an electrification plan despite the vehicle order being fixed.
- Identify the single schedule or cost risk for your depot that, if realized, would end the project.
Competitive Landscape, and Your Alternatives
- Why would your team choose to extend the current contract or solution instead of switching to an external specialist now?
- List the internal options your team has proposed to install chargers and manage load, for example using on-staff electricians or local contractors.
- Confirm whether your depot has an incumbent vendor currently responsible for any charging, electrical, or energy management work.
- Under what conditions would your team keep your current approach rather than change now?
- Share which types of competitors or suppliers your team has requested proposals from so far.
- Name the internal owner at your organization who would assume risk if timelines slip.
- Explain the factors that would need to change in your current setup for your team to decide against a vendor-led solution.
Operational Readiness and Deal Killers
- Could your depot meet the technical prerequisites we require, such as accessible switchgear, documented daily duty cycles, and available metering locations?
- Confirm whether your depot has up-to-date one-line electrical drawings and when they were last revised.
- Provide the contact name and authority level for your utility account holder who will sign interconnection paperwork.
- Tell us which software systems your team must integrate with, for example your fleet telematics, dispatch system, or building management system, and whether APIs are available.
- Rate the accessibility of your historical vehicle duty data from 1 to 5, where 1 is not available and 5 is ready to use.
- Where would a data gap, missing API, or lack of permissions at your organization immediately force a change in scope or timeline?
- Describe your contingency plan if permits or a utility service upgrade cannot be secured before vehicle arrival.
What Success Looks Like and Signs to Move Fast
- Assuming a short pilot shows a 25 percent reduction in demand charges for your depot, what would stop your team from signing within a week?
- Select which operational metrics your team will use to accept the project.
- Tell us who on your team will sign the acceptance certificate once those metrics are met, and what approval level they require.
- Choose how many months your team expects to realize operating cost savings after go-live.
- State your project budget envelope amount in USD or select if it is still under evaluation.
- Point to the one acceptance criterion that, if proven in a short pilot, would make your team sign immediately.
Implementation Concerns and Early Deployment Details
- When your first EVs arrive, what single staffing gap at your depot will prevent daily readiness?
- Enter how many chargers you plan to have live at initial deployment and the planned full build count.
- Clarify who on your team will coordinate driver training and who will own the training schedule.
- State whether your depot requires the platform to interoperate with your existing fleet telematics or dispatch system.
- Select which service terms matter most to your team for outdoor depot hardware, choose all that apply.
- Select your preferred funding approach if required upgrades exceed your current budget.
Final Signals and Next Steps
- Would your team be willing to run a two-week pilot that restricts charging to critical shifts if we can guarantee no operational service impact?
- Indicate the earliest date your team can provide site access, on-site contacts, and key documents to start a pilot.
- Please select which stakeholders from your organization must attend a scoping review before work begins.
- Choose your preferred procurement or contracting route your organization will use.
- Point to the decisive factor that would make your organization sign this quarter instead of later this year.
- Select which vendor documents or approvals your team requires to fast track internal approvals.
- Rate how ready your organization is to proceed.
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Charging Solution Walkthrough
Walk through how the proposed design and smart charging schedules deliver guaranteed fleet readiness while minimizing energy and demand costs in the buyer's context.
Solution Experience
- Charging Solution Walkthrough
- Confirm the current state and its cost
- You confirm the demonstrated design and schedule guarantee that each vehicle will be charged to the required state-of-charge by its first dispatch window.
- Run a site-specific simulation using the buyer's vehicle duty cycles and utility rate details and deliver optimized charging schedules and a cost comparison before the follow-up session.
- Walk through the proposed site design and readiness guarantee
- You accept the projected change in peak demand and energy cost shown in the simulation as a material reduction in financial risk compared to unmanaged charging.
- Produce a preliminary hardware and electrical upgrade scope aligned to the validated charging schedule.
- Run the smart charging schedule simulation on your data
- Provide finalized vehicle arrival dates, individual vehicle duty cycles, and shift schedules, plus the most recent utility bill and a single utility contact for follow-up.
- You agree on the remaining evidence needed to finalize scope and timeline, including the site energy model, utility interconnection plan, and firm vehicle arrival dates.
- Confirm the acceptance criteria for 'fleet readiness', including minimum state-of-charge thresholds and required vehicles per dispatch window.
- Demonstrate timeline and utility risk mitigations
- Validate that this matches your need
- Agree next steps and decision criteria
- Charging Solution Walkthrough
- Solution Experience Deck
- Charging Solution Brief
- meeting
- slides
- document
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Solution Scope
Define hardware, software, electrical upgrades, utility coordination work, responsibilities, timelines, and measurable acceptance criteria.
Scope Configuration
- Procure and deliver EV chargers and accessories
- Install depot electrical service upgrade (utility-side)
- Install transformer, switchgear, and distribution panels
- Install charger pedestals, mounts, and civil protections
- Run power cabling, conduit, and equipment connections
- Install and configure energy management software with SOC-aware scheduling
- Commission chargers and perform vehicle plug-in validation
- Submit and manage utility interconnection applications and inspections
- Apply for utility incentives, rebates, and tax-credit documentation
- Deploy temporary rental chargers and interim power solutions
- Deploy remote monitoring, managed load control, and demand-response
- Provide driver and depot technician training and handover
- Deliver ongoing maintenance, warranty management, and spare parts program
Scope Questions
Procure and deliver EV chargers and accessories
- Do you have a preferred charger power rating for depot chargers (for example 7 kW, 22 kW, 50 kW, 150 kW)?
- How many chargers do you plan to procure relative to fleet size (provide ratio or exact count)?
- Which mounting environment do chargers need to support on-site (garage bay, outdoor pedestal, canopy, other)?
- Specify required environmental or ingress protection ratings for chargers (for example NEMA 3R, IP66) and any temperature range constraints.
- List required accessories to be procured with chargers (for example cable retractors, surge protectors, network gateway, holsters).
- Indicate preferred supplier lead time or delivery window for chargers and accessories.
Install depot electrical service upgrade (utility-side)
- Identify the existing utility point of interconnection (POI) service size or meter rating at the depot (amps or service class).
- Name the utility tariff or rate schedule that currently applies to the site (for example commercial TOU, demand-charge tariff).
- State the target completion date for the utility-side upgrade relative to the earliest vehicle arrival date.
- Provide whether you have an executed utility service agreement, a cost estimate, or only an informal quote from the utility.
- Indicate any known utility constraints that will affect schedule (planned feeder upgrades, outage windows, municipal permitting windows).
- What evidence will validate the utility service upgrade is complete and ready for installation (for example signed service agreement with POI date, utility completion notice, energized meter at upgraded capacity)?
Install transformer, switchgear, and distribution panels
- Provide the transformer kVA sizing target from your load calculation or enter 'unknown' if not completed.
- Confirm whether a current single-line diagram (SLD) and transformer nameplate photos exist for the site.
- Specify the planned location for switchgear and distribution panels (indoor electrical room, outdoor pad, rooftop) and any HVAC or space constraints.
- Describe required coordination or compliance standards for protective device settings (for example NEC edition, National Electrical Safety Code requirements, or local AHJ coordination).
- State whether temporary supply or phased cutover is required while replacing transformer or switchgear.
- Identify who will sign off on as-built electrical drawings and nameplate updates after installation.
Install charger pedestals, mounts, and civil protections
- Indicate the expected pedestal mounting type and number of pedestal locations on the site plan.
- Confirm whether existing paving, concrete pads, or ADA clearances meet charger pedestal installation requirements.
- List civil protection elements required such as bollards, curb cuts, drainage improvements, or canopy footings and reference local impact standards.
- Specify trenching or coring needs and whether subsurface utility mark-out (811) has been completed.
- Identify any site civil permits required by AHJ for pedestal foundations or ADA access changes.
- Who will provide as-built civil drawings and post-installation photos for permit closeout?
Run power cabling, conduit, and equipment connections
- Specify conductor type and ampacity preferences from your electrical practice (for example copper THHN, aluminum XHHW).
- Indicate if new underground conduit runs are required or if existing conduit will be reused.
- Estimate maximum cable run length from the main distribution panel to the farthest charger in feet.
- State whether spare conduit capacity should be installed for future expansion and how many spare conduits are desired.
- Identify acceptance testing requirements for power cabling (for example insulation resistance megger results, continuity, phase rotation) and who will provide test certificates.
- Name the party responsible for final equipment connections and termination verification.
Install and configure energy management software with SOC-aware scheduling
- Confirm whether vehicle state-of-charge (SOC) telemetry is available from fleet telematics or vehicle APIs and the expected data format (API, CSV).
- Provide your desired maximum depot aggregate load limit in kilowatts during utility-defined peak windows.
- List the dispatch windows and required SOC targets per vehicle group (for example Delivery Shift A dispatch 06:00, 80% SOC required).
- Identify the fleet management system (FMS) or dispatch platform to integrate for schedule or SOC data and the integration method (API, SFTP, CSV).
- Specify the optimization goals for scheduling (minimize demand charges, minimize energy cost, guarantee earliest dispatch readiness) and indicate priority order.
- What measurable acceptance criteria will confirm charging schedules meet fleet readiness and demand reduction targets (for example all vehicles reach required SOC by dispatch across 5 consecutive business days and depot peak load stays below X kW)?
Commission chargers and perform vehicle plug-in validation
- State whether test vehicles will be available on-site for commissioning and how many vehicles will be used for validation.
- Identify the charger communication protocol and firmware baseline to be validated (for example Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) version or vendor API).
- Specify the commissioning checklist items needed for each charger (for example pilot/PE detection, earth bonding test, leakage test, state-of-charge telemetry pass-through).
- Describe how driver charging behavior will be validated during commissioning (for example driver walkthrough, session log review, telematics SOC cross-check).
- What evidence will validate successful charger commissioning and plug-in validation (for example 5 consecutive successful charge sessions per charger, signed commissioning report, charging event data in portal)?
- Name the individual who will provide final commissioning sign-off and their role at the depot.
Submit and manage utility interconnection applications and inspections
- Indicate whether a feasibility or system impact study will be required by the utility for the proposed charger load.
- Provide any existing interconnection application numbers, prior project references, or utility project IDs if available.
- Select the typical interconnection deliverables you will need us to prepare (single-line diagram, load study, protection relay settings, commissioning reports).
- State the target utility approval milestone relative to vehicle arrival (for example 30 days prior, by arrival, after arrival).
- Who will be responsible for tracking inspection dates, permit numbers, and utility correspondence during interconnection?
- List inspection deliverables required by the AHJ or utility for permission to operate (for example meter socket photo, relay test report, inspector sign-off).
Apply for utility incentives, rebates, and tax-credit documentation
- Select the incentive stream(s) you intend to pursue for this project (for example state rebate, utility prescriptive incentive, federal tax credit).
- Confirm whether you have account-level eligibility documents available such as account statements, W9, or tax documents required by incentive programs.
- Provide the authorized signer name and title who can submit incentive or rebate applications on your behalf.
- Identify whether vehicle-to-grid (V2G) or demand-response enrollment is required to qualify for any incentive streams.
- List supporting technical documents available for rebate applications (equipment spec sheets, single-line diagram, commissioning report).
- Who will track incentive payment milestones and reconcile received incentive funds against project invoices?
Deploy temporary rental chargers and interim power solutions
- Indicate whether temporary charging capacity is required to cover the vehicle arrival period before permanent infrastructure is operational.
- Estimate the duration temporary charging will be needed in weeks.
- Choose the temporary charger power class needed (for example Level 2 7-22 kW, DC fast 50 kW) and quantity.
- Report any site constraints that will affect temporary charger siting such as parking layout, required permits, or electrical access limitations.
- Identify the party responsible for rental logistics, staging, and return coordination for temporary equipment.
- Specify whether temporary metering or temporary transformer hookup will be needed to support rental chargers.
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Mutual Commit
Finalize commercial and legal terms, responsibility split for utility and permitting tasks, payment milestones, and acceptance criteria.
Agreement Modules
- Master Services Agreement (MSA)
- Statement of Work (SOW)
- Hardware Purchase Agreement
- Software Subscription Order Form
- Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Payment & Milestone Schedule
- Acceptance Test Protocol & Acceptance Certificate
- Change Order Agreement
- Utility & Permitting Responsibility Matrix
- Authorization to Act for Utility Filings
- Warranty & Maintenance Agreement
- Public Sector Procurement & Security Rider (conditional)
- Termination & Exit Plan
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Deployment
Operationalize rollout with readiness checks, execution, and outcome validation.
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Pre-Deployment Readiness
Capture concrete readiness facts the deployment depends on — site access, permit status, utility contacts, vehicle delivery dates, and named owners.
Pre-Deployment Questions
Environment and site access
- Primary site name or identifier (as the buyer references it; used in schedules, permits, and call-offs)
- Is physical access to the electrical room and proposed charger locations confirmed? (so we can schedule crews and insurance-covered entry)
- If access is not yet full, what is the earliest date full access will be available? (so we can plan first-site mobilization)
People and ownership
- Which of these named owners has the buyer assigned? (select all that apply; we'll ask for names below)
- Buyer onsite deployment owner — name and role (the day-to-day contact for access, acceptance, and schedule decisions)
Timing and constraints
- First vehicle arrival date at this site (provide date or 'unknown') (so we can prioritize the critical path)
- Full fleet delivery completion date for this site (provide date or 'unknown') (so we size staging and acceptance windows)
- Hard readiness or go-live date required by the buyer (provide date or 'none') (this is a mandatory scheduling constraint if present)
Permits, utility, and equipment staging
- Permit status for electrical upgrades and charger installation (select the current factual state)
- Utility interconnection status (select the current factual state; choose 'upgrade required' if a service capacity increase is pending)
- If the utility energization or interconnection date is scheduled, provide that date or 'n/a' (so we can align commissioning and energization)
- Is there an onsite, secure staging area reserved for equipment crates and temporary power? (so deliveries and short-term storage are coordinated)
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Configuration Details
Lock exact configuration values the deployment team will use — charger counts, per-circuit allocations, software charging schedules, demand thresholds, integration endpoints, and warranty selections.
Configuration Details
Environment & primary integration endpoint
- Select the deployment environment for this build (Default: Production)
- Enter the primary integration endpoint URL the platform will call for telemetry, monitoring, or meter uploads (format: https://... or sftp://... — enter 'none' if not used). This URL is consumed verbatim in connector configuration.
- Select the telemetry integration method category the seller should configure in the connector (choose the single integration pattern; credentials are exchanged separately via your chosen channel).
Hardware & electrical allocation
- Total number of chargers to install (enter an integer). Default: 10
- Chargers per electrical circuit (enter an integer — how many charger outlets will be tied to each dedicated circuit). Default: 1
- Default charger power rating to provision per unit (kW). This value is used to size branch circuits and load-management presets. Default: 11
- Select the hardware warranty package to apply to all installed chargers (the chosen option is applied in the procurement and asset records).
Software scheduling, demand controls & operational targets
- Primary charging strategy to lock for the deployment (this determines the default scheduling algorithm used in the build).
- Required state-of-charge (SOC) before vehicle dispatch — the guaranteed readiness target (%) used by schedules and acceptance tests. Default: 90
- Enable automatic demand limiting (the software will actively cap charging to stay below the site demand limit)?
- Site demand limit to enforce for charging (kW). Enter 0 to leave unlimited. This value is applied verbatim to load-management configuration. Default: 0
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Installation & Commissioning
Execute electrical upgrades, charger installation, software configuration, driver training, and initial load testing with clear owners and sequencing.
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Safety & Interconnection Sign-Off
Mandatory pre-energization gate: AHJ/inspector approvals, utility interconnection permission to operate, and validated load-management behavior before go-live.
Checklist items
- Receive written AHJ final inspection approval
- Obtain written utility Permission to Operate (PTO)
- Execute and document lockout/tagout (LOTO) and LOTO release
- Deliver as-built electrical documentation
- Complete commissioning tests for protective devices and grounding
- Run and record charging-load commissioning tests
- Validate demand-management and peak-shed behavior
- Verify metering and telemetry feeds to buyer and platform
- Provide energization authorization and emergency rollback plan
- Obtain final operational acceptance from buyer's designated approver
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Success
Review performance vs. success signals, track issues and enhancement requests, and maintain an ongoing maintenance and optimization cadence.
Success Reviews
- Go-live Health Check (weeks 1-4)
- First Measurement Review (weeks 4-10)
- Acceptance Gate Review (around day 90)
- Quarterly Success Review (ongoing)
Issues & Enhancements
- Re-confirm success criteria and owners
- Collect incident logs for any utility events or forced curtailments that affected the measurement window and attach to the acceptance package.
- Restate Solution Scope acceptance criteria
- Produce a documented acceptance decision against each numeric target recorded in Solution Scope, with pass/fail status captured in the meeting record.
- If any criteria fail, finalize a remediation and verification plan with concrete verification steps and completion deadlines.
- Publish the acceptance record listing each Solution Scope criterion, measured outcome, pass/fail result, and the buyer signatory or documented acceptance statement.
- If applicable, create a remediation tracker that lists required fixes, verification tests, and target close dates for each failed acceptance item.
- Confirm the legacy system decommission checklist is complete or document required actions to reach decommissioned/read-only state.
- Trend review of key metrics
- Confirm the solution continues to meet the percent-ready and peak demand performance targets recorded in Solution Scope or document agreed optimizations to correct any drift.
- Maintain a short list of prioritized maintenance and enhancement items with scheduled windows for implementation and verification.
- Publish the quarterly performance summary with metric trends, open incidents, and the prioritized enhancement backlog.
- Schedule confirmed maintenance and testing windows for any firmware or configuration changes that require verification of metric impact.
- Update the incident tracker with resolution dates for any outstanding high-priority faults affecting fleet readiness.
- Confirm deployment components are installed and commissioned per the documented checks in Configuration Details and Installation & Commissioning.
- Capture and prioritize all open issues with target remediation dates to prevent schedule slip into the measurement window.
- Publish a short remediation log listing each open issue, root-cause, and target resolution date within 48 hours.
- Collect and deliver starter telemetry export covering charger session starts, session durations, and driver-reported errors for the first 14 days.
- Present first-window performance data
- Establish whether percent of vehicles fully charged by dispatch and peak meter demand are on track to meet Solution Scope targets within the agreed timeline.
- Document a prioritized remediation plan with target completion dates to correct any metric shortfalls before the acceptance gate.
- Deliver a data-backed remediation plan that lists each corrective action, its expected metric impact, and completion date.
- Schedule a focused technical follow-up to apply any agreed charging schedule or demand threshold changes and record before/after telemetry.
- Present outcome data against each criterion
- Deployment and commissioning validation
- Open incidents and warranty/maintenance status
- Diagnose gaps and root causes
- Early adoption and usage signals
- Agree corrective actions and timeline
- Enhancement and configuration requests
- Document pass or fail per criterion and record decision
- Incumbent system wind-down
- Open issues and blockers
- Agree next quarter operational tasks
- Confirm readiness for acceptance gate
- Agree remediation and closeout timeline for any failed criteria