New fashioned refuelling

Sustainable transport has gone full circle. People used to arrive at their destination on a thoroughbred charger, now they expect to plug in to one. It worked then, and it works now – it’s just a different kind of horsepower!

CHARGESTORM® CONNECTED 2 - a true thoroughbred charger!

CTEK chargers provide new fashioned refuelling to keep us moving with the times, and the CHARGESTORM ® CONNECTED 2 is one of the most flexible products on the market, making it a true thoroughbred!

This state-of-the-art charger for electric and plug in hybrid vehicles is specifically designed to be robust, reliable and easy to use. Packed with a range of smart functions and in-built safety features, it’s ideal for businesses, hoteliers, retailers and property owners looking to provide reliable EV charging for their clients, customers, staff and visitors.

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What’s driving the need for destination charging?

Our research¹ tells us that electric vehicle (EV) drivers are increasingly looking to charge their vehicles at destinations like supermarkets, retail parks, shopping malls, hotels, offices, and other workplaces.

Drivers are now expecting to refuel at destinations in the same way as, in the days of horses and carriages – the original sustainable transport – people would stop to ‘refuel’ (feed, water and rest) their horses, before setting off again, refreshed.

This trend towards destination charging was highlighted in a recent YouGov/CTEK survey.1 The survey revealed that, while 66% of EV drivers still prefer to charge at home, almost a third (29%) are now using public or destination chargers, with 21% charging at work and 14% at petrol stations.

With previous estimates of up to 90% of EV charging taking place at home, this is a significant shift, and we can expect destination charging to really come to the fore as the world recovers from the coronavirus pandemic and restrictions are lifted, allowing people to travel more, for both work and pleasure.

We can also expect some of the changed working patterns adopted during the pandemic, particularly the rise in home working, to become permanent. With people visiting their workplace less often, EV owners with nowhere to install a home charge point will increasingly need to rely on public chargers and those at destinations like shopping centres and supermarkets.

¹ Survey carried out for CTEK by YouGov in February/March 2021, amongst 15,174 adults in the UK, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway.

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Powerful and flexible

CTEK CHARGESTORM ® CONNECTED 2 delivers up to 22kW AC charging, with single or three phase power. You can choose from a single outlet to charge one vehicle, or a dual outlet for two vehicles. Each outlet can then have either a ‘type 2’ socket or a fixed EV charging cable. The units can be wall or pole mounted and they’re suitable for inside or outside use.

CHARGESTORM ® CONNECTED 2 chargers are OCPP (open charge point protocol) compliant, so you can add more chargers to your infrastructure as demand inevitably grows, without needing to upgrade the system. You can also integrate seamlessly with other manufacturers’ equipment, include pay points, giving you maximum flexibility for today, and tomorrow.

Safe, robust, reliable

Robust chargepoints with high quality components will result in less downtime, less need for ongoing maintenance and replacement, and less frustration for drivers. CHARGESTORM ® CONNECTED 2 chargers are designed, developed and tested in Sweden using top quality components  and they are built to last, with durable IK10/IP54 rated metal casings to protect from the weather and deter vandalism. The chargers can operate at temperatures from -30 °C to +50 °C and come with a 2-year warranty.

They also meet all the required technical safety standards including an in-built fuse; earth fault circuit breaker; RCBO (residual current operated circuit breaker); DC leakage detector (equivalent to Type B circuit breaker) and built in MID approved energy meter(s).

4 socket solution

CTEK also offers a 4 socket ‘back-to-back’ solution, where two dual socket CHARGESTORM ® CONNECTED 2 chargers are mounted back-to-back on steel brackets fitted to a pole, allowing four EVs can plug in and charge at the same time. This innovative, space saving charging solution is ideal for small parking areas, particularly for double row ‘bay’ parking, where vehicles are parked ‘front to front’.

Smart

All CHARGESTORM ® CONNECTED 2 chargers come with smart charging as standard, supporting up to 80 different charging profiles that allow drivers to choose the time, power and length of charge. There is also a built in RFID reader, and drivers with the CTEK ‘Taking Charge’ App can control how and when their car is charged, remotely.

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The opportunity - get ahead of the competition

Providing EV charging at your facility will help you meet your business sustainability targets, supporting a cleaner, greener future for us all. But that’s not all, it makes commercial sense too.

For the fast-growing number of EV drivers on our roads, the availability of EV charging is becoming a key decided factor when they’re choosing where to shop, stop, work, visit and stay. Drivers need to be reassured that they’ll be able to recharge their vehicles when they reach their destination, so they are refreshed for whatever journey they face next.

Facilities and fleet managers

If you manage an office or other workplace, now is the time to get EV ready to meet the current and future needs of your staff and clients. This is especially so if you manage a fleet of vehicles, as bans on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans are just around the corner. We are even starting to see electric HGVs on the road.

Commercial property owners

The availability of charging facilities will increasingly figure in companies’ choice of business premises. Investing in EV charging now will get you ahead of the curve and provide added value to businesses looking to buy or rent sustainable offices and workspaces.

Hoteliers

Customers choosing a hotel for overnight accommodation, or maybe selecting a venue for a wedding, event, conference or business meeting, will increasingly want to make sure that EV charging is available before they book. In fact, some hotel booking sites are now starting to include EV charging as a search filter. Installation of EV charging facilities will put you on the map for the growing number of discerning EV drivers looking for a place to stay.

Retailers

Our research1 tells us that drivers prefer to combine charging with a longer stop, perhaps to do a bit of shopping, have a coffee or a bite to eat. This is especially so for EV owners with nowhere to install a home charger, who will be using destination charging as the main way to refuel their vehicles.
The installation and promotion of visible, reliable chargers is therefore a sound business investment for retailers, as the availability of chargers will not only figure in shoppers’ choice of retail outlet, it will also govern how long they spend in store.
1. Survey carried out for CTEK by YouGov in February/March 2021, amongst 15,174 adults in the UK, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway.

¹ Undersøkelse utført for CTEK av YouGov i februar/mars 2021, blant 15 174 voksne i Storbritannia, Sverige, Tyskland, Nederland og Norge.

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Balancing the load

Demand for EV charging is growing exponentially, but the grid supplying the electricity is not growing at the same pace. As power is a finite resource, balancing demand on the grid is a key consideration, especially if you are looking to install multiple chargers on a network.

Dynamic load balancing on EV charging networks removes the need for costly grid expansion and also reduces connection costs, by optimising and distributing available power between buildings and across all operational charge points.

This ensures vehicles are all charged as quickly as possible, while preventing overload on the grid and maintaining power to buildings and anything else drawing power from it (e.g. heating, lighting, air conditioning systems). Without load balancing, increased demand from EV chargers could cause main fuses to blow or trip, due to the demand for power being more than what’s available.

Getting the right balance with NANOGRID™

CTEK’s NANOGRID™ system works with CHARGESTORM ® CONNECTED 2 chargers to provide dynamic load balancing between multiple devices. It’s a smart power solution for power grid overload protection and can support up to 500 chargers on a single network.

You can choose from local load balancing, which is managed directly from the charge control unit and balances the load against a given value or main fuse - or Grid Central, which uses a separate compact cabinet containing a charge control unit, energy meter and transformer measurement equipment to balance the power delivered to the chargers against other important power users such as lifts, ventilation and lighting.

CHARGESTORM® CONNECTED 2

A state of the art EV charger specifically designed to be safe and easy to use. It’s ideal for home, business, public parking and tenant-owner housing associations, and it meets all the required technical safety standards.

Take control with the CTEK Charge Portal

Charge Portal is our cloud-based system that gives you full remote control of your charging network. Thanks to a smooth interface and easy login to connected devices, you can manage and monitor all your chargers and users remotely from your computer, simply and easily, at the touch of a button.

Charge Portal is compatible with all browsers and is scalable for small or large networks.

Our users tell us they rate the following features particularly highly.

Provision of real time data including user information, number and length of charging sessions and energy consumption, all presented in a visual, easy to understand format using diagrams and tables.
Remote software updates and RFID tag management.
Alarm function for system messages.

Charge Portal also supports OCPP and Green-eMotion standards.

Since 2009, Charge Portal has handled close to 9 million charging sessions, giving CTEK invaluable data on how people charge their cars. This intelligence is fed back into our organisation to support our continuous product development and innovation.

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