There are criteria that each of you must take into account when defining your needs:

• First of all, you need to decide where you're going to place your bollards. Personal to each resident, or if you'd like to share them across your campsite parking lots. 
  • For your parking lot, we recommend charging stations with 2 charging points to optimize maintenance costs and space.
  • Of course, if you wish, you can install charging stations in your parking lots, as well as on camping sites. 

Another factor to consider is surface area. The larger your campsite, the more charging stations you'll want to install on your site, to facilitate access for those who need them. 

As a campsite or other establishment open to the public, you'll need to adapt your charging stations to suit as many people as possible.  

Charging stations by power output : 

• Slow recharging (3.7 kW ): recovers around 20 km/hour
  This type of recharging may frustrate some customers, who will have to wait a long time before they can collect their car. Especially as this type of charging is not suitable for 100% electric vehicles. 
• Normal charging (7.4 kW) : recovers up to 50 km per hour. It is used by 90% of households, as it offers the right charging time and is perfectly suited to overnight charging. 
• Accelerated recharging (11 to 22 kW): allows recovery at speeds of up to 80 km/hour. Accelerated recharging ensures a smoother ride than with lower-power recharging stations.

Find out more: how much recharging power for your electric car?

For users who may need to recharge at night, we recommend a charging station transmitting 7.4 or 11 kW. 

This power allows you to make the most of your parking space and charging station. The vehicle will take longer to charge, but won't be parked in a charging bay unnecessarily. 

If you want to install charging stations for each accommodation, we recommend charging stations of no more than 7.4 kW.

You can request the installation of 22 kW charging stations. However, they must be strategically placed to ensure good traffic flow.

When you buy a charging station, you need to factor in installation costs. These installation costs are higher than the price of the charging station. This cost varies according to a number of factors. For example, the distance between the charging station and its supply point. There are also potential trenches to be dug and electrical panels to be installed.

The price of an installation is based on a technical study. We recommend that you have the study carried out by IRVE-certified installers. We can carry out the study ourselves! In fact, all our installers are IRVE-certified experts in the field.

We'll give you an overview of how much you'll spend depending on your charging solution: 

• Wallbox wall charging station - 1 load point - RFID card access control. Power: 3.7 to 22 kW / Plug: type 2
  • Expect to pay around €1,250 plus VAT (price may vary depending on installation requirements).

• Wallbox wall charging station- 2 load points - RFID card access control. Power: 3.7 to 22 kW / Plug: type 2
  • Expect to pay around €3,000 plus VAT (prices may vary according to the installations required).

If you're installing several charging stations in a small space, we recommend charging stations with 2 charging points. In most cases, they'll prove more cost-effective. They will enable you to achieve economies of scale in terms of the labor involved in installing the bollard, with civil engineering including the connection of electrical cables.

If you want to qualify for ADVENIR grants, the charging station must be installed by a professional who has IRVE(Infrastructure de recharge pour véhicules électriques) accreditation.

Installation costs include : 

• the price of the chosen terminal, which depends on several factors: number of terminals, charging power (3.7 kW, 7.4 kW, 11 kW, 22 kW), 1 or 2 sockets
• the price of electrical installations: cable supply to bollards, installation of a circuit breaker, creation of an external cabinet, installation of a cable duct on the wall, meters of cable to be laid, etc.
• Civil engineering costs: road markings, painting of parking spaces, creation of an anchoring base for bollard supports, asphalt trenches for cable routing or topsoil trenches for bollard supply, installation of bollard protection pins.

The 3-year maintenance contract required to obtain an Advenir bonus.

Energy management is the set of measures implemented to control energy consumption. This system makes it possible to reduce energy consumption on the scale of a house, a condominium or a structure such as a hotel or restaurant.

Choosing camping charging stations allows you to :

• Play the loyalty card: according to Forbes, 87% of consumers support entities that make a commitment to the environment. What's more, 88% of customers are more likely to remain loyal to companies that are environmentally responsible.

• Stay one step ahead of your competitors: the electric car is undeniably the car of the future. Gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles are destined to disappear. By 2035, these vehicles will no longer be manufactured at all. They will soon no longer fall within the emissions quotas imposed by the government, which intends to ban them little by little, and in certain cities covered by the EPZs. As a result, charging stations will have to keep pace with the rate at which users acquire electric cars. Think ahead and sniff out the opportunity before your competitors do! 

• Boost your referencing and visibility: as mentioned above, when you install charging stations at your campsite, you increase your visibility! You give yourself the right to be listed on applications such as ChargeMap or Google Maps. In this way, you'll reach a new target segment of electric vehicle users in a natural way. 
•  A new source of revenue: Charging stations can represent a new source of revenue for your camping center. In fact, you can charge your customers or users who are just passing through for recharging. It's a good way to pay back your charging stations relatively quickly. 

When you install charging stations, they are referenced on several platforms in order to point them out to electric vehicle drivers who need them! Here are the platforms we're talking about:

• Google Maps : Today, Google Maps is a household name. The advantage is that anyone can add useful information. Google Maps can be used to locate restaurants, hotels, campsites and, above all, charging stations! You can even indicate that your establishment has charging stations!
• Booking. com: The accommodation and flight booking site allows users to filter establishments with charging stations! 
• Destination Charging from Tesla: Tesla lists all the charging points available to its users on a map.
• ChargeMapChargemap is an application similar to Google Maps, specially designed for users of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. It references charging stations all over Europe!

Please note: You are responsible for listing your charging stations.

As mentioned above, you can acquire a new source of income by charging your kiosks. Some establishments offer recharging to build customer loyalty, but a business model is entirely conceivable.

There are 3 options for billing refills:  

• Time-based billing for sessions 
• Billing by kWh 

It's up to you to decide which option best suits your needs and those of your customers. 

Here are the advantages of the various packages: 

• Time-based invoicing allows you to discourage drivers from staying plugged in for too long. This is what is known as car-hoarding. 
• Invoicing per kWh means that vehicles with a slower recharging capacity are not penalized.

The terminal's supervision system will enable you to automate the charging billing system. It will enable you to send back data to automatically bill users:

• recharge histories, 
• consumption, 
• display the status of free or occupied terminals, 
• set rates and manage billing, 
• geolocation, etc. 

This system is not essential, but highly recommended. And don't forget that it's mandatory to obtain the Advenir bonus. You can process the rebilling manually. The Supervision system is subject to a monthly subscription fee.

Find out more: What is the purpose of supervising a charging station?