Installing chargers is the easy part.
As fleets grow, something changes.
Charging starts to affect everything else: your site capacity, your energy costs, your operations. Each charger acting on its own creates peaks you did not plan for and costs you did not budget for.
The challenge is no longer charging. It is controlling energy.
Not every charge should be a sprint.
Fleet activity follows a rhythm. Vehicles leave in the morning, return in the evening and sometimes go out again between routes. Overnight vehicles do not need full power the moment they plug in, while midday returns may need priority within a much shorter window.
Without coordination, every charger acts alone. Peaks rise, costs become unpredictable and the grid connection becomes the bottleneck. A depot can hit its limit not because it needs more power overall, but because too much charging starts at the same time.
Energy and charging connected into one system.
Vehicles are charged based on when they leave, not when they arrive. Overnight vehicles spread their load across the available window. Midday returns get priority based on departure time. Trucks get what they need without pushing the site over its limit.
AC handles the overnight work. DC steps in where speed genuinely matters. Battery storage absorbs peaks when multiple vehicles arrive at once. Solar energy can be directed to the fleet first.
The site stays within its limits automatically. Your team does not have to manage it.
Departure ready
Every vehicle is ready when it needs to leave
Peak control
Keep demand under control as the fleet grows.
Grid efficiency
Add vehicles without a grid upgrade in most cases.
One view
See energy use, charging and fleet readiness together.
If you run multiple depots, you need more than a per-site fix. The same charging strategy has to work across locations while still adapting to each depot’s own grid limits.
Location by location
Each depot has its own load profile, route rhythm and charging demand. Expansion needs to fit the operational reality of every site.
Central visibility
Smappee gives you one platform across all locations, with insight into fleet readiness, charging activity and site energy use.
Smarter expansion
When you are ready to add charging at the next depot, you start from real data rather than assumptions.
Controlled growth
Each site manages itself within its own limits, while the wider network becomes easier to monitor, compare and scale.
Solutions built for depot charging
The right charging mix, aligned with timing, capacity and operational planning.
The difference is coordination.
A parcel depot running 40 electric vans reduced peak demand by roughly 35% with no changes to the grid connection or the fleet size.
Depot sites across Europe deploying EV charging while remaining within their existing grid connection.
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