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The question before installation is what it costs; the question after it is whether it was worth it. Most platforms answer the first with a calculator and never answer the second. Depreciation, reliability and supplier performance are tracked per device here, against the sessions that actually happened.
Estimate your revenueWhat a charging station investment returns depends on occupancy, electricity cost and tariff, not on a brochure figure. Revenue is estimated before the decision and then measured against real sessions, so the payback curve is corrected by what happened rather than by what was hoped.
A cheap unit that spends a month out of service is not cheap. Faults, downtime and session counts accumulate per brand and model, so the next purchase is decided from your own field data instead of a vendor's promise.
Response time, repeat faults and resolution are held against the supplier, not just the device. Over a fleet of stations that record is what decides who gets the next tender.
The estimate on this site and the depreciation engine in the panel run on the same logic — one before the investment, one for its whole life.
Yes, and that is exactly what OCPP is for. If the chargers speak OCPP, changing platform is in essence repointing an endpoint: the devices stay, the software behind them is swapped. The same route works from the platforms known in the market — AMPECO, Virta, Monta, be.ENERGISED, has·to·be, ChargePoint, EVBox, GreenFlux — and in the other direction too; an open protocol is open precisely so that you are locked in to neither a hardware nor a software vendor. Tariffs, users and opening balances are imported by us, and the old system's history can be kept as an archive.
It varies with the device (an AC wallbox and a DC fast charger are different orders of magnitude), the grid connection and the civil work — the connection upgrade is often the largest item. Because the figure is site-specific, the site gives you a revenue estimate you can run against your own cost rather than a single headline number.
Payback follows occupancy, electricity cost and your tariff. The revenue calculator estimates the monthly gross before you commit; afterwards the panel tracks depreciation per device against real sessions, so the estimate is corrected by what the station actually earned.
Yes — that is what the brand and model reliability report is for. Faults and downtime accumulate per model, and the supplier scorecard keeps the same record against whoever supplied and services them.
The hardware is not the only line: grid connection and available power, cabling and installation, site works, the data link and the software side all count. Installation cost is a single number; payback is a curve that depends on occupancy and tariff.
The estimate on this page and the depreciation engine in the panel work the same way — one before the investment, the other across the device's life. The inputs are occupancy, electricity cost and the tariff you charge.
Yes. Brand and model reliability and the supplier scorecard come out of live field data, so you can see which units keep working and which keep failing. That record is what informs the next purchase.
