Public Fast 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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Site & Outcome Discovery
Align on site constraints, electrical capacity, parking and traffic patterns, stakeholders, and measurable success signals for a charging deployment.
Discovery Questions
Why this location matters to you
- How did this site come onto your radar for EV charging?
- Describe the primary business outcomes you want charging to deliver for this location over the next 12 months.
- Who else in your organization will sign off on the commercial terms or performance targets?
- Which customer types are you trying to attract with chargers, for example convenience shoppers, commuters, or fleet drivers?
- Estimate how many charging sessions per week you would need to justify dedicating parking to chargers.
- Are there site-specific hours of peak activity that matter for charger availability and safety?
What's already causing headaches on site
- If a failed or unreliable charger cost you a high-value customer visit, what would that look like here?
- Walk through the last time you had a major electrical outage or a long utility repair, what happened and who scrambled?
- How often do parking conflicts or employee parking take priority over guest spaces during peak times?
- What are the recurring maintenance or contractor coordination problems that slow other capital projects on this property?
- Tell me which site conditions would force you to stop a charging project immediately, for example environmental restrictions, tenant opposition, or lost parking revenue.
Where revenue and cost expectations could be wrong
- Which key assumption about visits, session length, or pricing, if wrong, would sink the site's projected return?
- Give a recent example of a revenue projection you relied on that changed after launch, what changed and why?
- Could utility demand charges or a time-of-use rate swing the economics into a loss, and do you have historical monthly kWh and peak demand data?
- To what extent are your expectations for revenue share versus lease fixed, and which internal team owns that tolerance?
- What single financial threshold would make you pause or cancel a project?
Who signs, who blocks, and who does the day-to-day
- Who in your vendor approval chain has veto power on site modifications or long-term leases?
- List the operational contacts we would need for construction access, ongoing maintenance, and emergency response, with the best contact method for each.
- When an on-site issue happens after hours, who receives escalations and what response time does your team expect?
- Name the departments that must be informed before scheduling disruptive work like concrete cutting or meter changes.
- Would a requirement for a dedicated on-site technician or vendor increase your willingness to host chargers?
What other options you are weighing
- Tell us which external providers or internal approaches you are considering right now, including staying with your current operator or a self-managed build.
- If you stayed with your current approach, what facts would have to remain true about uptime, cost, and customer attraction?
- Name the incumbent operator or in-house team assigned to this site today, and any contract end dates we should know.
- Estimate the likelihood your team will try a short-term leased pilot before a long contract.
- Has anyone internally proposed building and managing chargers without an outside operator? If so, who owns that idea?
Infrastructure gates and the timeline that really matters
- Identify the single infrastructure constraint that would block this project, for example meter capacity, transformer limits, or inability to get a new service.
- Provide the current main service size and meter arrangement, noting whether you share a service or have a dedicated feed.
- Do you have recent one-line drawings, site electrical plans, or utility point of contact information we can request?
- Based on past projects at this site, how long has the utility taken to approve service upgrades or interconnection agreements?
- Please identify the person or role who will own providing meter numbers, utility account access, and permission to release billing data.
- Are there local permitting deadlines, tenant events, or seasonal constraints that should set hard milestones?
Site layout realities that change the design
- Imagine we had to route power without cutting existing concrete or moving light poles, what design compromises would you accept and which are nonstarters?
- Provide a recent site plan or aerial map that shows parking counts, stall dimensions, curb cuts, and any known obstructions.
- Report the approximate distance from the preferred charging stalls to the nearest transformers and switchgear.
- List any surfaces or landscape elements that are off-limits for trenching or digging because of tenant requirements or municipal rules.
- Describe how curbside pickup, delivery vans, or fleet vehicles will need access through the charging area and how you would prioritize access over charging operations.
Permits, inspections, and safety sign-offs that gate energization
- Identify the single permit or inspection that has delayed your projects most at this jurisdiction, and how long did the delay run?
- Do you have a known fire marshal, planning, or building inspector contact, and can they pre-approve our scope before full plans?
- Give an example of a prior site inspection that failed, what failed, and what corrective work was required.
- Please list the approvals that must sign off before energizing chargers and the role or title that typically represents each approval.
- In your experience, what is a reasonable time window for your facilities or operations team to supply a named approver for safety sign-off once work is complete?
Success metrics and reporting that matter to you
- Suppose the chargers increased visits but not average ticket size, how would you measure whether the installation is successful?
- State the KPIs that must appear in the monthly report for you to maintain the partnership, for example uptime, session counts, and revenue share.
- Indicate the review cadence you prefer and which roles should attend from your side.
- Share any uptime targets or SLA penalties that would be deal-breakers for you.
- Outline the internal steps that would accelerate final approval should the pilot prove the numbers you need.
Next step decision and deal killers
- Call out the single site risk that would make you stop the project immediately.
- Assuming we cleared that risk and a three month pilot hit your KPI thresholds, what could still prevent you from signing a full agreement that week?
- Point to the internal approval or document that typically takes longest to finalize after commercial terms are agreed.
- State the timing you would need from us for a detailed proposal, site plan, and budget to present to your decision committee.
- Would you like us to coordinate a concise site walk with electrical and facilities leads in the next two weeks?
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Charging Solution Walkthrough
Walk through charger power options, network features, uptime guarantees, and operational responsibilities using the buyer's site context and goals.
Solution Experience
- Charging Solution Walkthrough
- Confirm the current state and its cost
- You confirm the proposed charger power mix meets your utilization and cost constraints.
- Deliver a site-specific configuration and economics memo with recommended charger count, power per charger, and estimated utility upgrade scope and cost range within 5 business days.
- You accept the SLA uptime commitments and remedies as sufficient to protect revenue and customer experience.
- Map charger power options to your site
- Provide a draft SLA and O&M responsibilities document for review that reflects the uptime and remedy levels discussed.
- You agree that operational responsibilities and escalation paths are clear enough to proceed to detailed scope and estimate.
- Validate network features and uptime guarantees
- Provide recent utility bill(s), peak site load data, and typical parking dwell times to finalize the electrical sizing and forecast.
- Confirm operational responsibilities and escalation paths
- Confirm the list of decision stakeholders and the target decision date so the follow-up scope and commercial proposal match your timeline.
- Forced validation, confirm this maps to what you described
- Charging Solution Walkthrough
- Solution Experience Deck
- Charging Solution Brief
- meeting
- slides
- document
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Deployment Scope & Economics
Define charger configuration, electrical and utility upgrade scope, timeline, commercial terms, and roles for O&M and performance reporting.
Scope Configuration
- Install DC fast chargers (50–350 kW)
- Install service transformer and switchgear
- Utility interconnection and metering installation
- Electrical distribution, conduit, and panel installation
- Charger civil works: pads, bollards, signage, striping
- Charger commissioning and site acceptance testing
- Network integration and roaming enablement
- Driver payment setup and RFID account provisioning
- Load management and power-sharing configuration
- 24/7 remote monitoring and incident dispatch
- On-site maintenance and field repairs
- Spare-parts inventory and warranty management
- Revenue-share settlement and monthly performance reporting
- Incentives, rebates, and financing enrollment
Scope Questions
Install DC fast chargers (50–350 kW)
- Provide the desired charger power ratings (pick all that apply) and the target rated kW for each charger location.
- Which connector standards must be supported at each stall (for example CCS1, CCS2, CHAdeMO) and how many plug sockets per dispenser?
- When are peak customer dwell periods expected at the site (weekday hours and weekend hours) to size simultaneous charging demand?
- Who will provide the site layout CAD or PDF showing planned charger stall locations, existing curbs, and electrical riser locations?
- Confirm the minimum acceptable plugged-in power per session (kW) used for your site economics and utilization modelling.
- Specify any environmental or enclosure requirements for chargers (NEMA/IK ratings, heated cabinets, extreme temperature derating).
Install service transformer and switchgear
- Estimate the existing site service nameplate: available voltage and available amps or kVA at the main service.
- Which transformer configuration do you prefer or require (pad-mounted, pole-mounted, or customer-supplied inside transformer)?
- When selecting switchgear, indicate required features: fused feeders, remote racking, metering sockets, and space for future breakers.
- Who will secure the transformer pad or vault location and confirm setback/clearance requirements with local code enforcement?
- Specify required transformer capacity headroom as a percentage above projected peak EV load to allow future expansion.
- Indicate if a secondary metering cubicle or utility-owned transformer is mandated by the local utility tariff or interconnection agreement.
Utility interconnection and metering installation
- Identify your utility account number and the billing name on the account for interconnection application purposes.
- Which service point type serves the site today: overhead service, underground service, or pad-mounted service from an adjacent transformer?
- When do you expect to submit the utility interconnection application and what is the utility's typical application lead time (weeks)?
- Provide the documents or utility confirmations that will validate permission to operate (PTO) and metering acceptance (for example signed application approval, meter set confirmation, or PTO letter).
- Specify whether the site requires a demand/interval meter, time-of-use meter, or separate revenue meter for the chargers to support billing and settlement.
- Indicate who will fund utility upgrade costs and interconnection upgrade deposits if required by the utility application.
Electrical distribution, conduit, and panel installation
- Provide the approximate linear distance (feet/meters) from the new transformer/switchgear to the first charger stall to size feeders and conduit runs.
- Which existing panels, if any, have spare breaker spaces or spare bus capacity that can be used for charger feeders (attach panel schedule if available)?
- Specify required conduit types and pathways (direct-buried feeder, directional bore under pavement, above-ground raceway, or existing duct bank).
- Indicate any site constraints for trenching or conduit runs such as 3rd-party utilities, landscaping, historic paving, or protected trees.
- Identify required cable ampacity or maximum breaker size you expect to deploy per charger in amps or conductor size (if known).
- Detail lighting, grounding electrode, and fault current considerations that are known from your electrical one-line diagram or utility short-circuit report.
Charger civil works: pads, bollards, signage, striping
- Estimate the number of dedicated charger parking stalls and whether stalls must meet ADA accessibility requirements.
- Which pavement work is required at each stall: sawcut/replacement, full-depth patch, asphalt overlay, or concrete pad for charger mounting?
- When installing bollards and protective barriers, specify the number, spacing, and embedment depth required by your local building code or risk assessment.
- Identify required signage content and placement (charging only, time limits, pricing/QR code) and any local sign permit constraints.
- Indicate required striping dimensions and paint type (thermoplastic, paint) and whether re-marking of adjacent spaces is required.
- Describe lighting or CCTV requirements for each charger location for safety and commerce activation (lux levels or existing fixtures).
Charger commissioning and site acceptance testing
- Identify the commissioning window and preferred dates for energization testing and on-site functional tests.
- What acceptance criteria will confirm charger site acceptance: list required commissioning tests, minimum throughput or charge cycles, communication checks, and the role/title of the signatory for final acceptance.
- Select which commissioning tests you require from the standard checklist: insulation resistance, polarity, ground-fault testing, communication handshake to backend, payment transaction test, load bank or step-load verification.
- Specify the expected minimum uptime threshold in the first 90 days that you will use for initial performance validation (percentage).
- Indicate who will provide site access, keys, and lockout/tagout (LOTO) authorization for commissioning crews.
- Describe the reporting format you require for commissioning results (PDF commissioning checklist, CSV test logs, signed acceptance certificate).
Network integration and roaming enablement
- Provide the required OCPP or API version and backend endpoint details that the chargers must connect to for telemetry and command control.
- Which roaming partners or network-to-network integrations do you expect to be enabled at go-live (list partner categories or roaming platforms rather than brand names).
- When performing integration tests, what sandbox or test credentials will you provide for payment end-to-end and roaming session routing?
- Identify required cybersecurity or certificate standards for charger-operator communication such as TLS certificate pinning or mutual TLS.
- Indicate expected latency or telemetry update frequency (seconds/minutes) for session events and fault reporting to meet your operational dashboards.
- Detail any mandatory data fields or data sharing agreements required for roaming reconciliation (session ID, kWh delivered, start/stop timestamps).
Driver payment setup and RFID account provisioning
- Select the pricing model you will offer to drivers at this site: per kWh, per minute, per session flat fee, or a hybrid model.
- Which payment methods must be enabled at go-live (app payments, contactless cards, RFID card, fleet account billing)?
- Provide the RFID provisioning workflow you prefer: on-site registration kiosk, pre-authorized card drops, bulk RFID provisioning for fleet accounts, or mail-to-driver distribution.
- Indicate tax and sales-receipt requirements for driver transactions (show tax line, include kWh delivered, include unit price).
- Identify whether you require user account validation (KYC) for fleet RFID cards or corporate billing accounts and the verification documents needed.
- Detail the pricing override or promotional codes workflow you want available for the site (e.g., time-limited free charging, discount codes tied to POS purchases).
Load management and power-sharing configuration
- Indicate the maximum site-level demand (kW) you are willing to allocate to EV charging to stay within demand charge targets.
- Select preferred load management approach: static power-sharing per port, dynamic load management based on real-time meter data, or utility demand response integration.
- Specify the minimum acceptable power per port under a fully loaded condition (for example 50 kW minimum per active connector).
- Identify any building energy management system (BEMS) or onsite DERs (solar + battery) that load management must integrate with and provide the integration endpoint type.
- Detail expected peak simultaneity: how many vehicles do you expect to charge concurrently during peak periods?
- Describe your preferred behavior under utility curtailment events: preemptive reduced power profile, queueing new sessions, or first-come-first-served throttling.
24/7 remote monitoring and incident dispatch
- Specify the telemetry and fault codes you require to be reported to the remote monitoring platform (charger health, connector status, ground faults, temperature alarms).
- Select target incident response SLAs for remote triage and field dispatch after a critical fault is detected.
- Identify the escalation contacts and preferred notification channels for 24/7 alerts (email, SMS, phone, ticketing webhook).
- Indicate required uptime reporting cadence and minimum dashboard metrics to include (uptime %, mean time to repair, sessions per day).
- Describe any required integration endpoints for incident management systems (provide webhook URL type or API spec if available).
- List any site safety or restricted-access procedures that monitoring/dispatch teams must follow before on-site intervention (badging, escorted entry).
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Commercial & Legal Agreement
Finalize revenue-share or lease terms, SLA, indemnities, and confirm project dependencies, payment milestones, and acceptance criteria.
Agreement Modules
- Master Services Agreement (MSA)
- Statement of Work (SOW)
- Site Hosting Agreement — Revenue Share or Lease
- Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Payment Schedule & Milestone Agreement
- Indemnity, Insurance & Liability Addendum
- Utility Agency Authorization
- Commissioning Acceptance Certificate
- Data Sharing & Reporting Agreement
- Change Order Agreement
- Regulatory & Public Sector Procurement Rider (conditional)
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Deployment
Operationalize construction and commissioning with readiness checks, utility sign-off, and go-live validation.
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Pre-Deployment Readiness
Capture concrete readiness facts the deployment depends on — site contacts, access windows, utility account details, and scheduling constraints.
Pre-Deployment Questions
Environment and site access
- Is the deployment location finalized as a single site we should plan for? (If multiple sites, indicate 'multiple' and submit separate per-site forms)
- Primary day‑of‑access contact (name, role, best phone). This person will authorize installer arrival and site entry.
- Are there controlled access requirements the installation team must follow? (gates, badges, security escort, visitor sign‑in)
People and ownership
- Named owner for construction approvals (name, role, email). This person signs onsite installation approvals and decisions.
- Is the buyer/site owner the utility account holder for the electrical service at this site?
- Who will be the ongoing operations contact for after‑sales issues (name, role, phone/email)?
Utility and electrical readiness
- Has existing electrical service capacity been verified or an upgrade path identified (so we can size equipment and timelines)?
- Do you have a utility account and a utility project/contact for service upgrades (we will request project IDs in DeploymentConfig)?
Timing and constraints
- Preferred two‑week window to begin on‑site construction (or earliest available start date). This defines our contractor scheduling target.
- Are there blackout periods or peak site hours when construction, testing, or energization are prohibited? (list days/times — used to define allowed work windows)
- Are site prerequisites required before our crew arrives (vendor insurance on file, signed site work permit, contractor prequalification)?
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Technical Configuration & Permitting
Lock exact equipment specs, electrical one-lines, utility application IDs, contractor roles, and permitting details the teams will execute against.
Configuration Details
Equipment & Power Specifications
- Select the nominal power per dispenser the seller should lock in for the electrical design (kW). Default: 150 kW if unsure.
- If you selected 'Custom' above, enter the exact nominal power per dispenser to configure in the build (format: numeric kW, e.g., 125 or 175.5).
- Number of chargers/dispensers to install (Default: 2) — enter an integer the electrical design will consume verbatim.
Electrical One-line & Site Diagrams
- Provide the canonical electrical one-line diagram file URL or cloud path consumed by the electrical-permitting step (format: https://... or smb://... or cloud-bucket/path).
- Main service rated capacity to use in load calculations (Amps). Enter numeric value (e.g., 400). If unknown, enter 'Unknown'.
- Is a site transformer present and available for use by the project (this value is read by the interconnection scope module)?
Utility Coordination & Interconnection
- Utility application ID or queue number for this interconnection (enter the utility's application/queue identifier or 'TBD' if not yet submitted).
- Interconnection impact level the utility study indicated (select the option the interconnection plan should assume).
Permitting, Contractors & Commissioning
- Permitting jurisdiction (enter the city/county authority name that issues permits and inspections — consumed by the permitting checklist).
- Permit type(s) required for this installation (select all that apply — the permitting workflow will include only the selected permit checklists).
- Who will be listed as the official permit applicant/agent on permit filings (select one; used by the permit-application template)?
- Primary electrical contractor company name (exact legal name to appear on permits and contractor worksheets).
- Pre-energization named approver (enter approver full name and role exactly as the safety gate record should display, e.g., 'Alex Gomez — Safety Manager').
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Construction & Commissioning
Manage construction, installation, utility coordination, testing, and commissioning with named owners, milestones, and escalation paths.
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Interconnection & Safety Sign-Off
Mandatory pre-energization gate: confirm permit inspections, utility permission to operate, and safety verifications with named approvers before energizing chargers.
Checklist items
- Receive final AHJ permit inspection sign-off
- Obtain written utility Permission to Operate (PTO)/interconnection approval
- Complete and record Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) procedures
- Verify protective device settings and trip tests
- Confirm grounding and equipotential bonding tests
- Confirm revenue metering and telemetry are installed and reporting
- Complete emergency-stop, safety interlocks, and signage functional tests
- Upload final as-built electrical drawings and one-line diagrams
- Confirm site access, emergency contacts, and escalation list provided
- Collect written cross-party energization authorization
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Operational Success & Reporting
Validate uptime, session volumes, utilization, and revenue against success metrics and maintain a shared channel for issues and enhancements.
Success Reviews
- Go-live Health Check (weeks 1-4)
- First Measurement Review (weeks 4-10)
- Acceptance Gate Review (around day 90)
- Quarterly Operational Review (ongoing)
Issues & Enhancements
- Schedule the agreed maintenance windows and confirm field-service contact windows for the next quarter.
- Produce a documented acceptance decision with pass/fail status for each numeric criterion recorded in Site & Outcome Discovery.
- For any failed criteria, agree remediation tasks, deadlines, and verification steps so the acceptance loop is closed.
- Confirm the incumbent system has been decommissioned or retained read-only and that data migration or archiving is complete.
- Publish the acceptance record showing pass/fail per criterion and capture the buyer's approval record or named signatory where applicable.
- List remediation tasks for failed criteria with target completion dates and the evidentiary requirements for re-check.
- Deliver an incumbent wind-down report confirming contract termination or read-only retention, and the status of data archiving or migration.
- Performance trends and anomalies
- Ensure uptime percentage and average monthly revenue per charger remain on track or have an agreed remediation plan.
- Close persistent operational issues or move them into an agreed-resolution plan with target dates.
- Confirm the next quarter's maintenance schedule and any non-commercial site improvements to be executed.
- Publish the quarterly performance package including uptime, session volumes, utilization, and revenue reconciliation.
- Create and track remediation tasks for the top three recurring incidents with target completion dates.
- Re-confirm success criteria and owners
- Validated deployment checklist with any exceptions recorded and owners assigned.
- Clear remediation plan and schedule for all high-severity issues before the first measurement meeting.
- Confirm data sources and report access for the first measurement review.
- Distribute the completed deployment health checklist and outstanding-issue log for asynchronous confirmation.
- Open tickets for each high-severity incident with target resolution dates and include monitoring hooks for verification.
- Provide access to the raw session and uptime logs required for the first measurement review.
- Present first 30-60 day performance vs targets
- Determine whether charger uptime percentage and monthly session count per charger are progressing toward their targets.
- Document a prioritized remediation plan with milestone dates that leads to the acceptance gate.
- Ensure monitoring and reporting access is available to all owners for the acceptance evaluation.
- Share the full-session-level and uptime logs for the measurement window and a reconciled revenue report for the same period.
- Implement the agreed corrective tasks (for example firmware patch, network optimization, or signage change) and update the remediation timeline.
- Publish the acceptance gate date and required evidence package that will be reviewed at day 90.
- Restate acceptance criteria and numeric targets
- Open incidents and recurring problem analysis
- Root-cause analysis for variances
- Deployment validation checklist
- Present outcome data against each criterion
- Formal pass / conditional / fail determination
- Operational improvements and scheduling
- Early adoption signals and driver onboarding
- Corrective actions and acceptance timeline
- Confirm monitoring and reporting cadence
- Open issues, ticket triage, and immediate remediation
- Remediation plan for unmet criteria and timeline to close
- Revenue-share and billing accuracy check
- Incumbent system wind-down confirmation