Find and fix issues in your smart charging software before deployment.
Train teams and showcase your platform using a virtual fleet with no privacy risks.
Run large-scale simulations of your backoffice with virtual vehicles and chargers.
Test different scenarios to balance charger cost, energy efficiency, and yard logistics.
Building or improving a smart charging platform can be expensive and slow if you rely on real hardware for testing. eVirtuFleet is a simulation tool that connects to your backoffice via OCPP 1.6 or 2.0.1, letting you test, validate, and demonstrate your system without physical chargers or vehicles.
The software creates realistic scenarios modeling charging sessions, load balancing, and energy constraints. You can run stress tests, experiment with new features, and show your platform in action, all in a virtual environment. By testing early, you save on hardware costs, avoid disrupting live networks, and bring your product to market faster.
Connect to your backoffice or charger management system exactly like a real charger, with full support for OCPP 1.6 JSON and 2.0.1. Test your algorithms, run demos, and validate behavior without needing physical hardware or complex setup.
Watch your virtual vehicles and chargers as they connect, charge, and depart. In real time or accelerated time to compress a full day’s operation into minutes.
See how charging demand changes throughout the day as vehicle batteries are modeled across their trips. Test different smart charging strategies and instantly calculate utility cost impacts to demonstrate the value of your algorithm.
Turn complex charging behavior into clear insights. See how your smart charging commands shape charge profiles over time, and quickly spot opportunities to improve efficiency.
Whether you are developing a new CPO platform or testing smart charging algorithms at scale, eVirtuFleet helps you validate your system, before investing in hardware or disrupting live networks.
Run automated scenarios to debug, stress-test, and validate smart charging and load management algorithms in a controlled, repeatable environment.
Model fleet charging behaviors and grid impacts to evaluate demand response strategies and optimize load balancing.
Simulate chargers and EVs to test your backoffice software with OCPP 1.6 or 2.0.1. Verify new features and ensure compatibility without deploying real hardware.
eVirtuFleet Licenses include a number of running hours for the license period, which is reset at each renewal. For example on a monthly plan the hours will reset monthly, on an annual plan they reset annually. Additional hours can be separately purchased and do not expire as long as the license remains valid.
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.
Starting, stopping and reviewing eVirtuFleet simulations can be done through our API, details on our interface can be found on https://docs.api.chargesim.io/. This allows you to integrate the tool into build pipelines or automated testing. Typically scenario setup is done via the UI, but then later repeat simulations such as for build pipelines can be done via an API.
Most OCPP simulators are intended to help you test that your system uses the protocol properly, but the vehicle arrivals and departures are manual, and the batteries never get full. eVirtuFleet simulates a fleet of vehicles, which follow a schedule, have batteries which get full and change their charge rates. This helps you test and demonstrate your smart charging algorithms are getting the vehicles full on time to meet your service needs.
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.
This depends on your subscription, our subscription tiers scale with the number of vehicles. We can simulate hundreds of vehicles.