As an expert in the charging pile industry, EVDANCE has rich experience in the development and manufacturing of intelligent EV charging solutions. This is where we turn our engineering insights into knowledge and share them with the global EV community.
Charge by the kWh to price the energy, by the hour to price the bay. For a business, the right basis follows dwell: how long cars stay versus how long they charge.
There is no standard payback period to quote: it is your installed cost divided by your annual net contribution. Here is the forecourt version of that division.
No standard monthly figure exists: a DC site’s running cost is a stack of lines, each read from your own utility bill, platform invoice and service records.
On a shared meter the utility bills one combined peak. Chargers only add demand charges when they coincide with the building’s peak — here is how sites keep that part down.
A charge point operator keeps what is left from charging fees after energy, platform, payment and maintenance costs. Utilisation decides whether a site earns or loses.
A CPO runs the chargers; an eMSP runs the driver’s account. Who sets prices, who bills, who fixes faults — the split explained through one charging session.
Roaming passes permission, then records: your provider authorises the session on another network, the record returns for billing, and the companies settle behind the scenes.
OCPI is how charging networks pass your chargers’ location, status and prices to other networks and apps. For a host, it decides who can find your site.
A host is paid under one of four structures — rent, a revenue share, a hybrid, or nothing because the host owns the chargers. The contract sets the route.
A revenue share pays the host a contract-defined share of charging income instead of — or alongside — rent. What counts as revenue decides what the share is worth.
