How many charging bays should a car park have? If you are looking at your car park and considering adding EV charging to the services you offer, you might be wondering just how many spaces you need to convert. You might even be questioning if your car park even needs to embrace EVs yet. Transforming your car park involves several moving parts. In this blog, we’ll help you understand how to meet current guidelines for EVs but also how to plan for the growth of infrastructure and changing customer demand. Explore more How many charging bays should a car park have now? Recent guidelines have suggested that one in five spaces in a new car park should be readily available for EV charging. Think of it as 20% of your parking spaces. Depending on the extent of your existing car park, this could be a sizeable investment. Instead, you could look at your site and how it is operating to gauge your current demand. ANPR data can provide fuel analysis and let you see the types of vehicles using your car park. Every vehicle registration includes information about the engine type, meaning you can see how many petrol, diesel, hybrids or EVs are making use of your car park. This means you can assess if EV charging is even worth installing. What you should be looking for is growth over time or the sustained number of vehicles on your car park. For example, if you see daily EV use on your site, it might be worth installing a small number of chargers to see how they perform. Planning for the future While assessing the immediate need for EV charging is one thing, the demand for EVs is inevitably growing, and infrastructure needs to develop to keep up. The fuel analysis data used for assessing initial demand can start to track growth and trends. As the UK moves further towards net-zero and more electric vehicles appear on the roads, that demand should increase. This should allow you to see growth, not only in current use and requirement, but you will also be able to chart where demand is heading and ensure the infrastructure is in place to meet it. Doing this would put you in an ideal place to meet driver demand for charging and potentially allow you to get ahead of the competition by turning your car park into the go-to destination for EV drivers. How can we help transform your car park? We understand how important developing the UK’s EV infrastructure is. Car parks are a perfect place to house chargers as they allow charging in much more convenient locations and help ease range anxiety when planning a trip. ParkEV is our new EV charging solution which allows your business to provide a valuable and convenient service to visitors to your car park. ParkEV uses Evology chargers which house a camera within the charging unit, allowing you to protect your charging spaces and ensure they are restricted to EV vehicles only. Coupled with our 24/7 monitoring and maintenance, this helps to ensure they meet demand and gives your business access to a powerful and reliable charging solution. To find out more about ParkEV and how we can help your business embrace the future of motoring, get in touch using the form below. First name *Last name *Email *Telephone NumberCompany *Postcode *MessageBy submitting this form, you are confirming that you have read and accept the Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions and consent to your data being processed and used for the purpose of reviewing and responding to this enquiry.Keep me updated with information from Parkingeye relating to my enquiry.YesNo SubmitPlease do not fill in this field.
