eParking brings charging electricity to housing associations – without forgetting parking services
all newly registered cars are already rechargeable, so many motorists today increasingly have to arrange not only parking but also charging.
High-power charging is one option for electric car drivers: it charges the car quickly and allows you to get back on the road quickly. The disadvantage is usually the price: charging with a high-power charger is often the most expensive way to add mileage to the battery.
eParking offers charging for parking spaces – and parking payment services
However, there are cheaper charging options available. One such option is offered by the domestic eParking, which offers both parking and charging services in one package for housing associations, companies and parking garages, for example.
The electrification of parking spaces in particular is key to the widespread use of electric transport.
For most drivers, the daily driving distance is clearly shorter than the operating range of the most common electric cars. Your vehicle often spends most of its time in the parking lot at home or work, which is a natural place to charge the car. When electricity is available in the home parking lot, the need for more expensive high-power charging is small.
When parked, even a lower charging power is sufficient. For example, when charging overnight, a charging power of just a few kilowatts is sufficient in most cases to fill the car's battery. This type of low-power charging when parked is often called parking charging.
The entire service package from one operator
When arranging parking charging, considerations include the installation and maintenance of charging devices, sufficient power of the electrical connections in the parking area or building, intelligent power distribution between different charging points, and billing for the actual charging electricity. eParking does just this, and this gives the owner of the parking garage or, for example, the property manager of a housing company less to worry about, while improving the service for the end user.
Parking charging makes sense anyway. Low-power charging does not heat the battery significantly, and is therefore a better option for the car battery than high-power charging. The cost of the charging equipment and even a large charging station is also only a fraction of the cost of high-power charging. Parking charging usually takes place at night, when electricity is not only the cheapest, but also the most environmentally friendly. And of course, the kilometers charged at home save high-power charging points for those motorists who really need to charge quickly.
For charging management and payments, eParking offers motorists a payment application for their smartphones. It is therefore natural that the same application not only manages charging but also parking. eParking is also a significant parking payment operator for public parking areas. The parking service is suitable for all motorists, regardless of the type of vehicle.
Parking charging increases the value of your home
The ability to charge a car is also a determinant of the value of a property or housing stock. Nordea's senior analyst Juho Kostiainen stated in his review that charging infrastructure requires investments, especially from housing companies, and the lack of a charging point may increasingly become an obstacle to housing purchases. It is therefore worth considering parking charging solutions in every housing company.
eParking is Finland's largest corporate and home charging network with approximately 67,000 charging points. Most of these chargers are located in the parking lots of housing associations and other private operators, enabling electric mobility every day.
The eParking service is offered by IGL-Technologies Oy, founded in 2009.
Commercial cooperation. Original publication the Oikosulku blog.
Written by Tuomas Sauliala . 5.10.2024
Photo: eParking
The author is a professional in electrical engineering, communications, and marketing who has written about electric cars and their charging systems, as well as vehicle software, since 2013.
