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Planning & Site Selection

Future-Proofing Your Commercial EV Charging Installation

Future-proofing a commercial EV install means sizing conduit and panel capacity for your full build-out rather than the initial charger count, using load management to add chargers within existing service, requiring OCPP-compliant hardware to avoid vendor lock-in, and planning for the NACS connector transition. The incremental cost of doing this right the first time is small next to retrofitting later. The federal 30C credit has ended, so build timing now rests on your own economics rather than a tax deadline.

Updated Oct 202610 min read

How Many EV Chargers Does Your Property Need?

Sizing is really two questions: how many chargers to install now, and how much electrical infrastructure to build now. Install conservatively for current plus near-term demand; build infrastructure for a larger future. As a rough starting point, depending on property type, install chargers at about 2 to 20 percent of spaces and size conduit and panel capacity for about 10 to 40 percent, unless code requires more. The make-ready approach almost always wins.

Updated Oct 20269 min read

EV Charging Site Selection: What to Evaluate Before You Commit

Site selection drives the cost and success of a commercial EV charging project as much as equipment choice does. Five factors matter most: proximity to electrical service (the dominant cost driver), parking flow and visibility, ADA compliance, future expansion capacity, and dwell-time alignment. Decisions made here are expensive to reverse once conduit is in the ground, so a physical site walkthrough beats any CAD drawing.

Updated Oct 202610 min read

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