Kempower data indicates that more charging plugs drive higher public EV charging site utilization

There’s a growing consensus that public EV charging may just turn out to be a profitable business after all, and operators are squarely focused on utilization rates. How do we design charging sites to maximize customer utilization?

EVSE manufacturer Kempower has released a new white paper that presents an analysis of real-world data from the company’s public EV charging sites in North America.

The white paper examines how charging site design can influence utilization, energy delivered and long-term site economics. Data from Kempower’s EV charging management software, ChargEye, indicates that the number of charging plugs has about three times more impact on site utilization than the total installed charging power.

The analysis also found that, on average, the charging sites using a distributed architecture achieved 83% higher utilization than sites that used fixed-power charging dispensers. Kempower’s distributed charging architecture dynamically shares available power between multiple charging points based on real-time vehicle demand.

“Public charging is increasingly becoming an infrastructure utilization challenge, not simply a power deployment challenge,” said Jed Routh, Vice President, Markets & Products North America. “Our ChargEye data shows that giving more vehicles access to charging and dynamically distributing available power can help operators get more from their charging infrastructure.”

Source: Kempower