Yes, according to Deloitte, 95% of business travelers think that hotels should invest more in renewable energies.

Even if not all customers will use your charging stations because they don't yet have electric vehicles, they will value your efforts, and you will enjoy the image of a company that works in favor of sustainable development and ecology.

Among the benefits mentioned, one mentioned that charging stations can help you increase revenue.

While some hotels offer refills to guests, you can also charge for them to supplement your income.

As a hotel manager, you have 2 options:

You can charge refills per session with a flat rate, per time, or per kWh of electricity consumed. There's no fixed rule, so you make your own rules based on what's best for you and your customers.

• Time-based invoicing allows you to penalize drivers who remain connected to a terminal when they have already filled up. 
• Billing per kWh means that vehicles with slower recharging speeds are not penalized. 

When it comes to invoicing for charging station use, you have several options. You can either have it billed manually, or have it automated via the supervision system. 

A kiosk supervision system provides data feedback for automatic billing of users. (Recharging history, consumption, displaying the status of free or occupied terminals, defining tariffs and managing invoicing, geolocation...)

Of course, you can also offer recharging at your charging stations, depending on the strategy you wish to adopt.
Recharging stations in your hotels represent a financial and marketing gain. Your CSR policy and compliance with future measures will be satisfied by installing charging stations in your hotel! 

If you can't analyze your customers' vehicles, you can analyze their behavior.

By coming to the hotel, your customers are more likely to park for more than 2 hours and charge their vehicles at night.

Hotel chains such as Hilton have chosen to partner with Tesla and its network of superchargers, or with other American charging station experts, to equip their hotels. The aim is to offer their guests several recharging solutions.

Today, Marriott hotels, for example, are equipped with several types of kiosk in several hundred hotels. These kiosks are strategically placed to meet the needs of the group's customers.

In short, you have several options for recharging your customers. 

• Slow recharging: recovers around 20 km/hour 

It's a good start, but this type of recharging may frustrate some customers, who will have to wait a long time before they can collect their car.

• Accelerated recharging: recovers up to 50 km/hour

This type of refill is highly appreciated by users, and can open doors to more occasional customers (lunches or night outings) who won't be staying overnight.

For this type of refill, it's more profitable to charge for it. 

There's little point in setting up only very powerful charging points. For those who want to charge their vehicles overnight, they'll occupy the charging point for a long time without needing to. For this type of situation, a more average charging point will do the trick. On the other hand, for customers who are just passing through, a more powerful charging station will be a must.

The kiosks installed in hotels are divided into 3 AC power levels:

- 7 kW single-phase

- 11 kW and 22 kW three-phase

Range regained per hour :

7 kW: 30-40 km

11 kw: 60-70 km

22 kW :100-120 km

Alternating current (AC) charging: Alternating current is the current that flows through the electrical grid. However, an electric vehicle's battery can only store electricity in direct current (DC). 

Find out more: recharging your electric vehicle: types of plugs and recharging methods

The price of a charging station varies according to model, brand and power. But generally speaking, the cost of a charging station is 2 to 5 times less than the cost of installation.

The cost of installation increases according to a number of parameters, including the cable distance between the bollard and its power supply connection point, potential trenches to be dug, and electrical panels to be installed.

The firm price of a bollard installation is based on a technical study. We recommend that you aim for safety and have the study carried out by IRVE-certified installers. You can ask us to carry out a technical study of your project.

All our installers are IRVE-certified and experts at the cutting edge of their field.

RFID card control will enable you to collect DATA and bill your customers. 

We recommend you opt for a Wallbox with 2 charge points. The cost of installation and maintenance will ultimately be lower than opting for 2 Wallboxes with 1 charge point.

As you can see, choosing the right charging station is an important decision, because a hotel does not have the same needs and customers do not behave in the same way as when charging in a shop or in the city, and so on. Investing in charging stations certainly has a cost, which can be amortized more easily if the hotel charges for recharging.

The terminal must be installed by a professional who has IRVE(Infrastructure de recharge pour véhicules électriques) certification.

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
• price of electrical installations: cable supply to bollards, installation of a circuit breaker, creation of an external cabinet, installation of a cable tray on the wall, meters of cable to be laid...
• 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,
• 3-year maintenance contract, mandatory to obtain an Advenir bonus

Each installation is unique, as it depends on the specific needs and location of the bollards. 

Hence the need to carry out a technical study in order to establish a firm price that corresponds to an à la carte service. 

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Installing a charging station allows you to benefit from the ADVENIR subsidy. To qualify for the ADVENIR subsidy, you'll need to take out Supervision, Subscription and Maintenance options. You'll also need to call in an IRVE-qualified electrician, and comply with specifications specific to each type of installation.

Here are the bonus amounts:

When it comes to administrative formalities, our Beev experts take care of everything for you!

ATTENTION:

On August 1, 2023, ADVENIR incentives for recharging points open to the general public in private parking lots, including intermediate target groups(hotels, restaurants and shops), will be abolished.

As a result, only premium applications signed before August 1, 2023, and before the dedicated budget limit of 5 million euros, will be taken into account by the ADVENIR program.