Process guidance and support in choosing a loading location

As a municipality, you face the challenge of planning the rollout of public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. However, there is often a lack of time, a central overview, and the right knowledge to set up this process efficiently and carefully. Our process guidance and location selection take these concerns off your hands, allowing you to act effectively and decisively.

What are the benefits for your municipality?

Our service is designed to take all the hassle out of the process of choosing potential charging locations. Specifically, this means:

  • An updated plan map that complies with the projected number of charging locations in 2030. 
  • Professional guidance in collecting all necessary data and complete peace of mind in selecting charging locations. 
  • Up to 80% fewer hours to arrive at an internally validated charging map that meets sufficient charging locations by 2030. 

This allows you to remain in control while significantly speeding up the process.

Our step-by-step plan: this is how the process works

The implementation process for drawing up the plan map has an average lead time of 10 to 14 weeks and consists of six clear phases.

Inventory of wishes and requirements

Initial meeting in which we jointly determine the objectives and timeline.

Submitting required data

Submit existing zoning map, geodata, and placement criteria.

Determining demand for public charging points

The number of locations to be selected is determined based on your specific requirements, current consumption data, and forecasts.

Drawing up and updating the zoning map

The charging locations are determined based on factors such as forecasts, current consumption data, and placement criteria, including top and side views.

Validation by municipality

A validation work session will follow, after which you will check the proposed locations.

Validation & Completion

The final plan map is available in EVMaps and can be shared with your local operator.

How is a good plan map drawn up?

A future-proof zoning map starts with up-to-date and reliable data. The more complete the data points, the better we can respond to local requirements and circumstances. We use the following, among other things:

  • Basic Registration of Large-Scale Topography for insight into the layout of our living environment, including buildings and roads.
  • Existing charging infrastructure, with associated consumption data to monitor the actual performance of the charging network and make location choices based on actual figures. 
  • Forecasts: adjustable years to determine how many new charging points are needed until the desired year.  
  • Low-voltage grid: the distance to the grid determines whether a charging station can be connected to the grid and thus supplied with energy. If the distance is too close or too far from the grid, the location is not suitable. 
  • Other contextual layers such as parking spaces, tree map, or other preferences can be included in the location selection criteria depending on your requirements.

Municipal criteria

Each region has its own preferences and requirements regarding location selection. To draw up/update the zoning map, we propose frequently used criteria, which can be supplemented/adjusted by the municipality as desired.

Municipal control

 EVTools specializes in identifying future locations on a large scale based on criteria. However, we do not have specific contextual knowledge about situations in your region. It is therefore important that the final assessment of locations remains with the municipality, whereby we recommend that not only someone from the mobility department, but also colleagues from other departments within the public domain provide their feedback on the proposed locations, in order to realize a widely supported and feasible plan.

The plan map has been completed. What can I do with it now?

  • The locations that are ready to be realized can be shared with the operator or regional government. Realization processes can be started from the plan map, whereby a charging station is realized in a structured manner by completing approximately 8–10 fixed steps without skipping any essential steps. 
  • The statuses of locations are automatically updated on the plan map, giving you a constant overview of the current status of the charging network. This makes it easy to add new charging stations or to decide that there is sufficient charging infrastructure in place. 
  • We recommend periodically updating the plan map so that decisions are always based on current data.

If you have any questions about maintaining the plan map or would like to share the plan map with an operator/regional government, please contact us.

Frequently asked questions about choosing a charging location

The process support offers an updated plan map for 2030, complete peace of mind when it comes to data collection, and time savings of up to 80% in order to arrive at an internally validated load map.

The entire process has an average turnaround time of 10 to 14 weeks and is divided into six distinct phases, from inventory to final validation and completion.

EVTools uses the Large-Scale Topography Database (BGT), existing consumption data, future forecasts, data on the low-voltage grid, and local criteria such as parking spaces or tree maps.

The distance to the grid determines whether a charging station can be connected in a technically and financially feasible manner. If the distance is too great, the location is marked as unsuitable.

The statuses of locations are automatically updated in the plan map. EVTools recommends periodically maintaining the map so that decisions are always based on the most up-to-date data.

Once the plan map is ready, it can be shared with operators or regional authorities via EVMaps to start the structured implementation of charging stations.

The final assessment remains with the municipality. We recommend a broad validation process in which both the mobility department and other relevant departments within the public domain provide feedback.

Yes, each region has its own requirements. EVTools provides commonly used criteria that can be supplemented or modified by the municipality as desired to create a customized plan map.

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