A holistic approach to charging infrastructure – power for your fleet

Charging infrastructure means the possibility of supplying your electric vehicles with electricity quickly, conveniently, flexibly and cost-effectively with your own charging stations – for example on the company premises. In addition, public charging infrastructure offers charging columns in various designs and performance classes. For long-distance and distribution transport, various charging options are available, e.g. in car parks, shopping centres or at petrol stations along the motorways in the form of charging parks.

The costs of charging infrastructure are made up of the charging technology, the construction and installation work, as well as possible expenses for new connections at the grid operator. The financial outlay depends on your requirements and ranges from a few thousand euros for a mobile solution, to pure hardware costs for a charging station with a charging capacity of 150 kW for currently around 30,000 to 40,000 euros, to larger sums for entire charging parks. Important: precise planning of an optimal charging strategy with the 360° eMobility consulting lowers your investment costs.

To set up your own charging infrastructure, you will need suitable, accessible and properly installed charging stations that are sufficiently supplied with sustainably generated electricity – e.g. via a photovoltaic system on the roof of one of your buildings. In this way, not only can you operate your electric vehicle fleet in a climate-friendly and cost-effective way, but you can also reduce the load on the public power grid. A current transformer brings the voltage to the level required to charge your electric fleet. A reliable digital network makes it possible to monitor and control the charging processes. An intelligent charging management system distributes the charging power efficiently and can help reduce electricity costs as well as installation costs for the charging infrastructure.

Yes! There are plans to offer new funding to businesses for this purpose. Through various funding measures from the EU, the state or at the municipal level, companies are supported by financial incentives to set up charging infrastructures. If you want to set up or expand a charging infrastructure, you can receive up to 80 percent of the eligible expenses as a grant. The amounts of funding are highly dependent on the programmes currently available. Your MAN contact and the MAN premium partner for charging infrastructure are familiar with the current measures and will be happy to advise you on them.

The power consumption of an electric truck depends on a variety of factors such as speed, road type, payload, outside temperature, topography and auxiliary consumers. For this reason, it is not possible to make universal statements. As a rule of thumb, it can be assumed that for a large number of applications the power consumption will be in the range of 0.8 kWh/km (solo vehicle distribution transport) to 1.2 kWh/km (articulated truck long-haul transport).

The charging time of an electric truck depends on multiple factors, such as the battery capacity, charging power and charging technology. There is a simple ground rule: the higher the charging power, the faster the charging. In a roughly simplified way, the charging time can be calculated by dividing the energy content of the battery by the charging power.

Example charging times

• DC fast charging station with 150 kW charging power (200 A): Charging time from 10% to 100% between 2 hours (240 kWh) and 4 hours (480 kWh) depending on the battery capacity.
• DC fast charging station with 375 kW charging power (500 A): Charging time from 10% to 80% between 30 minutes (240 kWh) and 60 minutes (480 kWh) depending on the battery capacity.
• Megawatt Charging System (MCS) with up to 750 kW (1000 A): Charging time from 10% to 80% less than 45 minutes with maximum battery capacity (480 kWh) and therefore within the legally prescribed break times.