Compleo installs EV chargers at the Faraday Institution

Compleo Charging Solutions UK has helped research organisation, the Faraday Institution, install electric vehicle (EV) chargers for its staff, pool car and visitors.

Compleo has installed fast-charging, 3 Phase 22kW AC units at the Faraday Institution’s designated parking spaces at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus HQ in Oxfordshire.

The Faraday Institution is an independent institute for electrochemical energy storage research, skills development, market analysis and early-stage commercialisation.

Susan Robertson, Faraday Institution, chief operating officer, said: “The Compleo EV charging software (eOperate) is invaluable to us. It enables our staff, visitors and pool cars to charge reliably using RFID cards while ensuring that speculative visitors to the site can’t plug in and get free electricity.

“A number of staff already own an electric vehicle and many of our employees have a long commute. Without reliable access to charge points when using their EV for work would be inconvenient for some.

“Providing the new charging infrastructure has been popular with staff, and doing so, has removed a barrier for the uptake of EVs for our employees – important for us as the UK’s independent institute for battery energy storage research.”

eOperate allows users to set tariffs, opening hours and restrict charging to registered users only.

The company said it has supplied more than 135,000 EV charging stations and has more than 200,000 points connected to its backend and is working with more than 100 major corporate customers.

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