Vehicle and fleet charging
Charging vehicles, plant or a fleet on a site whose supply agreement does not yet allow it.
What triggers it
Electric vehicles arrive before the supply upgrade is done. Or a temporary depot, a site, a seasonal location where charging is needed without a permanent installation.
- Usual duration
- From a month to a year, depending on how the upgrade is progressing.
- Hire unit
- Monthly.
What you need to know
- What matters is not the number of vehicles but the hour they come back and the hour they have to leave again. A fleet that comes in at night and leaves at six charges overnight, and it is that trough that makes hiring possible.
- The battery sits between your supply and your chargers: it absorbs the peak your agreement does not cover, and recharges when the site stops drawing power.
- Chargers, cabling and protective devices are not always part of the hire. What is included and what is charged as an extra is written in the quote, line by line.
Supply in five stages
- 01
The call
Who: You and our hire manager
What: You describe what you need to power, over what period, and with what connection already in place. In that same conversation we tell you whether this is a case for a hired battery, or a case for something else.
- 02
The survey
Who: Our engineer, on site or from drawings
What: Heavy goods vehicle access, ground bearing capacity, available footprint, means of unloading, distance to the connection point. On a straightforward site, a drawing and photographs are enough.
- 03
The delivery
Who: Our haulier
What: The equipment arrives, it is unloaded and set down in the agreed position. The outgoing condition report is signed at that moment.
- 04
The connection
Who: Our engineer, with your electrician
What: Connection, energisation, checking of protective devices, load test. You leave with the procedure to follow and the number to call.
- 05
The collection
Who: Us
What: De-energisation, disconnection, removal, incoming condition report. The hire ends when the equipment is collected, not when you call.
When it is not the right answer
If your supply upgrade is already scheduled for the near term and your vehicles arrive after it, there is no point in hiring.
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