Simulate different layouts and schedules to determine exactly how many chargers you need and where to place them.
Optimize charging times to take advantage of off-peak electricity rates and avoid demand charges.
Streamline buses movements and parking logistics, saving time and resources.
Test different scenarios to balance charger cost, energy efficiency, and yard logistics.
Most depot electrification projects rely on static estimates and spreadsheets. But real world fleet operations are dynamic, failing to model them can lead to blocked vehicles, costly energy use, and expensive redesigns. eDepotPlanner helps you simulate before you invest, guiding smarter decisions with real operational data.
As your depot transitions to electric buses, charging can't be an afterthought. eDepotPlanner is a simulation software tool that helps you plan depot charging infrastructure that aligns with your schedules, routes, and grid limits.
The software models how vehicles arrive, charge, and rotate through the depot over time. You can test charger types, placement, grid constraints, and charging strategies; all in a virtual environment. By planning ahead, you avoid costly design mistakes, reduce upgrade costs, and ensure your depot is ready to support your fleet now and in the future.
Placing layover chargers can be tricky, install too many, and it's expensive; install too few, and your fleet risks running low on charge.
ChargeSim’s new Layover Charger Optimization feature goes beyond basic placement. It builds charging plans based on your fleet’s real schedules and battery levels, ensuring chargers are shared efficiently and no vehicle is left behind.
Whether you are scaling up electric bus or designing depots from scratch, eDepotPlanner helps you get your charging strategy right, before you commit to costly installations.
Simulate charging workflows based on your actual truck movements and shift schedules. Ensure charging fits your operations without adding delays or bottlenecks.
Support clients with data driven recommendations. Use simulation to evaluate trade offs, compare scenarios, and design cost-effective charging strategies.
Demonstrate to your customers that your chargers are validated for real fleet operations. Use our simulation to showcase performance under typical depot conditions.
Forecast power demand under different charging strategies and reduce peak load through smart scheduling. Plan grid upgrades based on realistic needs.
ChargeSim started with the mission of improving planning, and was built to help operators plan smarter and avoid costly missteps by simulating how vehicles move, park, and charge. We believe that tackling climate change requires practical, cost-effective solutions that support widespread adoption without compromising efficiency. By improving smart charging and making electrification more accessible, ChargeSim plays a key role in enabling a sustainable future.
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ChargeSim can help with planning by turning future schedules into projections for utility needs.
The usable size of battery is often different from the name plate size. Understanding the difference is essential for accurate planning and performance expectations.
There are a few strategies which can be used, in practice the right mix will depend on your fleet and how you use it.
Overnight charging: charging with relatively low power DC chargers during the night in roughly 8 to 14 hours. For urban last mile delivery running a single shift this can often be sufficient, but it is important to plan enough charging power to take advantage of cheaper electricity rate periods.
Destination Charging: Charge the vehicles at their destination like warehouses or logistic centers. Here it’s a balance to find optimal charging during loading and unloading (30 to 120 minutes depending on the goods shipped)
On-Route Fast charging: Charging at highway rest stops during driver break periods using very high power chargers with MCS (Megawatt Charging System). These chargers and stations are starting to be built, but are still rare. This is most useful for long-haul transport.
It is important to know your energy demand prior to construction of a project. By calculating the power requirements upfront, you can get the right utility capacity. Avoid having too little power, and not being able to charge, or wasting time and money on unnecessary capacity.
Electricity grid capacity is becoming increasingly scarce in many markets, so being able to fit your operation within a smaller available capacity can often mean further electricity grid construction isn't required, saving considerable costs and project delays.
With a big fleet coming and going it is a difficult puzzle to find the best setup for your needs. In our software you can load your transport schedule, energy prices and solar profiles to find clear insights in your requirements and potential savings.
Our visualizations and reporting help you quickly understand the tradeoffs and find the lowest cost solution for you.
For planning simulations, typically a few minutes.
For OCPP simulations it will depend on the backoffice and how fast you can accelerate the operation. Depending on your backoffice setup accelerated operation may require some adaptations since the OCPP protocol is only designed for real-time use. (e.g. 1kWh will be delivered in under 1h in accelerated mode, but if the backoffice cross checks this it could cause a warning.)
In real time mode it will take as long as you intend to simulate.
The results can be downloaded in various formats such as .csv, .xlsx ,.docx, .png, .svg and .jpg depending on the data. You can generate full summary reports for simulations in .docx format and download most raw data in .xlsx
No, ChargeSim is purely a design and testing tool. Our planing tools are usually used before chargers are purchased to select the most suitable setup and are vendor agnostic. They can be used to help improve workflows and smart charging of existing sites. Our OCPP tools can be used to test, validate, demonstrate and train people on smart charging software that will later control the actual chargers. We don’t make software for day-to-day operation of depots and smart charging. There are several vendors who do, and our tools can help you get an unbiased view on the value they can add.
We can use a proprietary excel format, or GTFS which is often available publicly from agencies. Other formats like KV1 and VDV452 are supported. These schedules can also help with planning on-route charging.
Our software supports multi-site operation. Simulations can have vehicles scheduled to charge at many different locations, such as a depot and transit exchanges.
This depends on your subscription, our subscription tiers scale with the number of vehicles. We can simulate hundreds of vehicles.
