eDepotPlanner

Make sure your fleet can get the energy it needs before you buy chargers

Lower project costs: with eDepotPlanner, you can precisely determine how many chargers you need, minimizing unnecessary cost.
Reduce your electricity costs: our software allows you to plan an optimized charging schedules to take advantage of lower electricity rates during off-peak hours. 
Reduce extra labor: streamline bus movements and parking logistics, saving time and resources.
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Why eDepotPlanner is critical for your fleet's Success?

Make informed decisions based on data-driven insights.

Ensure your fleet runs efficiently and cost effectively.

Scale your charging infrastructure to meet future fleet growth without overspending.

Switching to an electric fleet is a major investment, and proper charging infrastructure is key to both short-term efficiency and long-term success. The wrong setup can lead to

Higher costs

from over-installing chargers that you don’t need.

Under-installing chargers

leaving you unable to charge your vehicles on busy or extreme weather days.

Utility delays

that slow down your fleet’s deployment.

eDepotPlanner is a design and analysis software that solves these challenges by helping you design the perfect balance between the number of chargers, your fleet’s charging schedule, and your utility capacity needs. This ensures you avoid over or under-investing and keep your fleet running smoothly.

Plan your depot in a few steps...

An example of a schedule

Load your Schedule

  • Load your schedule from GTFS, XLSX, VDV-452 or other formats
  • Understand which routes can easily be electrified and potential on-route charging options
  • Adjust and optimise for electric operation
  • Calculations and Optimisers help you estimate and define possible designs
  • Evaluate several sites, such as vehicles which take recovery at other depots or use on-route chargers.

Configure your Depot

  • Setup your depot layout including lanes and charger selection
  • Explore different workflows, charger and parking arrangements
  • Configure multiple-output and multi-module chargers
  • Include preconditioning, cleaning and other on-base activities
The layout UI in action

Simulate your Electric Operation

  • Predict and optimise electricity load profiles and costs.
  • Evaluate cost tradeoffs between chargers, labor and energy costs
  • Software provides suggestions for improvements
  • Animations help understand and explain outcomes

Understand, Communicate, Iterate & Optimize

  • Export results in .xlsx, .csv, .docx, .svg, .png
  • Powerful visualisations let you understand and explain issues and impacts
  • Revision management lets you compare and evaluate options
  • Iterate and try options within minutes & compare results
A plot of daily power use


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  • Plan up to 300 buses.
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Frequently asked questions

How does your software enable me to save money?

How much time does a simulation take?

How can I download the simulation results?

Does ChargeSim do real time charger control?

How do I import schedule data into ChargeSim?

We would like to charge our vehicles in multiple locations, can the software handle such a setup?

We don’t know what is the most effective workflow for our facility, cleaning before charging or charging before cleaning.

In our depot vehicles are sometimes “blocked” due to lane parking, does the software take situations like this into account?

How many vehicles can we simulate in the software?