Electric Vehicle Charging Stations are becoming a requirement for many hotel guests, as the number of Electric Vehicle drivers has grown exponentially in the last five years along with the number of EV Charge Points. This opens up a brand new and exciting opportunity for businesses. Hotel owners can offer charging stations as a facility to accommodate guests parking and car charging demands while also reducing carbon footprint at your workplace.
- Increase visibility of the hotel - Booking websites such as tripadvisor.com, booking.com, hotels.com and kayak.com have all recently added an Electric Vehicle Charging filter as they've seen a huge increase in search trends – make sure that your hotel is not missed by ignoring those filters.?
- Attract a new target market - For Electric Vehicle drivers it is as?simple this: if the hotel does not have a charge point it is not a hotel that they can consider staying in.?It does not matter how good the beds are or how nice the food is! Without the charging necessity, guests who own EV's are likely not to visit your hotel.
- Create a new revenue stream - ePower's integrated Back Office Billing System enables the business to recover the cost of power supply directly from the consumer.?Hotels can decide to monetize their EV Chargers by time or by energy unit consumed at their own price. This gives you the flexibility to offer the correct service for your hotel whether it be giving the power away for free, providing it at cost recovery or adding a margin towards the initial capital expenditure.
- Meet CSR Objectives in a way that benefits everybody - Climate issues dominate our social and political discourse and for good reason.??Businesses are under increasing pressure to show that they are taking care to reduce their carbon footprint and promote environmental awareness.?Installing EV charging facilities is an excellent way of addressing these issues in a way which has real benefits for the business, the customers, employees and the local population in general.
- Choosing the wrong charger - The number one mistake made by a business such as a hotel, when installing Electric Car Charging facilities is to install equipment that has no option to incorporate a billing or monitoring back office system.?Quite often, in these cases the equipment must be replaced with newer, higher spec equipment at a cost to the site owner.??
- Installing EV Chargers with no Customer Support - Hotel receptionists have 1001 problems to deal with on a daily basis – the last thing they need is a question from an EV driver related to a piece of electrical equipment in the car park.?The most common questions are very simple for somebody who has a lot of experience with EV charging and can be resolved remotely.
- Overestimating the required Power Supply - There is a lot of discussion about the speed of a charger, (i.e. the amount of power it can deliver) with most believing the bigger and more powerful EV Chargers the better.?A quick back of the envelope calculation by a facilities manager being asked to install 6 x 22kW charging points can result in some quite scary numbers in terms of power requirements however we have a power calculator available to help understand what supply you have.
- Installing a Single Charge Point - The only thing that would be worse for your EV driver customer than having no Electric Car charging points at your hotel is having one charging point at your hotel!?If you are going to offer EV charging facilities, make sure you do it well!?ePower?can?help advise the most efficient and cost effective solution for you to ensure that your hotel is at the forefront of the EV revolution.
With numerous long-term benefits, it is a great investment to install EV Charge Points for your guests and visitors. ePower provides the full turnkey solution from supply and installation, to charger management or monetisation. We can help make the process an easy one with our team who are passionate about EV Chargers! Our expert electricians carry out all installations in a hassle free, efficient manner. We are happy to discuss any EV Charger related queries, you can contact us via the below:
Call us on 1800 998877 Email [email protected]. or Visit www.epower.ie
