FAQs

Smart charging means you can intelligently manage how and when your EV charges and what energy sources it uses. This enables you to charge in the best way both in terms of cost and driver requirements, while also protecting your vehicle and building. 

Smart charging offers many advantages for both businesses and private individuals, specifically in saving costs, minimizing the investment needed for additional electricity capacity and ease of management with handy dashboards and apps.

In practice, smart charging relies on sophisticated data exchange systems that are automated and integrated with AI to ensure the most economical, well-timed, driver-oriented and infrastructure-friendly solution.

Smappee’s real smart charging solutions make it hands-free to always charge at the best rates, with maximum solar energy and avoiding exorbitant capacity rates, which can save you up to 50% on charging costs. You can also rest assured that your EV will always be charged at the time and level you require. Another real smart feature of Smappee, load balancing, protects your building (no tripping) and can save you up to 25% on installation costs.

Installing a charging station has a major impact on the overall energy consumption of a home or business.

• This makes the use of renewable energy even more important.
  Therefore, Smappee offers a solution that maximizes the use of renewable energy and energy during off-peak hours throughout the day for each charging session. In this way, you optimise your self-sufficiency and save costs. Depending on your country, you may also need this smart feature to take advantage of tax cuts.
• The current infrastructure often cannot handle the additional energy demand of electric cars.
  This can lead to blown fuses. Smappee’s autonomous overload protection ensures that cars can charge safely and the system stays within its power limit. Thus, an expensive extension of the electrical connection is not necessary.

Fully charging can be done in as short as 15 – 20 minutes at fast charging stations or can take as long as half a day depending on how big the battery is, or the speed that your charging point can charge.

The maximum charging speed  is dependent on your electric vehicle. If the max charging speed of your vehicle is for instance 50 kW, you will not be able to charge quicker than that, not even at a fast charger. 

There are many other variables that can also influence the speed of charging. The emptier the battery, the quicker it charges. The colder the battery, the slower it will charge. Whilst charging, the battery temperature will rise, and so will the charging speed. Some vehicles include the feature of automatically pre-heating the battery, when a fast charger is set as destination in the vehicle’s navigation system. 

To best maintain the battery health and optimal charge time of your electric vehicle, it is advisable to stick to a charge level of between 20% – 80%.

Most cars achieve a maximum charging speed of 11 kW with regular charging (AC) but making use of fast charging services (DC) will allow you to speed up your charging sessions.

Smappee’s EV line of charging stations offers charging between 22 kW for the EV One, EV Wall and EV Base, up to fast charging between 80 kW and 200 kW with the EV Ultra.

Example of charging with the Smappee EV line of chargers:
Car X has a battery of 80 kWh. If you want to charge it from 20% to 80% it will take approximately, 4 hours (11 kW, if your car has this max charging speed) or 2 hours (22 kW) to charge with the EV One, EV Wall and EV Base and 20 minutes with the EV Ultra (200kW).

Smappee’s real smart charging relies on sophisticated data exchange systems that are automated and integrated with AI to ensure the most economical, well-timed, driver-oriented and infrastructure-friendly solution.

Smappee’s real smart charging makes it hands-free to always charge at the best rates, with maximum solar energy and avoiding exorbitant capacity rates, which can save you up to 50% on charging costs. You can also rest assured that your EV will always be charged at the time and level you require. Another real smart feature of Smappee, load balancing, protects your building (no tripping) and can save you up to 25% on installation costs.