What charger is the best?

[edsasso]

I have 10 ford EV's some transits and some lightnings and I have 6 more on order. Im a contractor and I have some of my fleet charge at my office and some charge at employees homes. I have a bunch of the ford 48 amp chargers ad they work great. I have two pro chargers and they work great as well (not running at 80 amps due to wire size). All my trucks have the regular plug in charger and they go off on high temp every night at employees homes which is problematic. My plan is to install a charging bank of 16 chargers so my business has room to grow and I want to give my men "real" chargers for their homes. I want to buy more chargers for my project and I wanted to see what successes or failures people are having with all the different brands of chargers. I would buy all Ford, but they come at a premium and well, this is an expensive project and saving a few bucks is not a bad think. So stick with ford and pay up or buy the tesla charger, charge point charger or some other brand?

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[Heliian]

All my trucks have the regular plug in charger and they go off on high temp every night at employees homes

Must be hot there.

I would check with Ford fleet for deals or try another company that has linkable units for monitoring and usage.

At the end of the day, evse are basic switches that supply line voltage. It doesn't really matter whos name is on it.

 

[Schroederhc1]

Send an email to the YouTube dude who runs the state of charge channel. He has a ton of knowledge about that stuff

 

[Maquis]

Emporia is hard to beat. Last time I checked, $200-300 less than the FCCS.

 

[CD4TNF]

What features do you need for the fleet management? Do you need to track cost of employees's charging? Do you need RFID or ability to have only your employees activate the chargers?

 

[SmoothJ]

I have been using OpenEVSE for years, and never looked back.

 

[hturnerfamily]

this other thread discusses EATON's new 'no module' direct-from-breaker EVSE... probably a GREAT alternative to many 'separate' EVSEs for large installations like yours:
minute ~18 talks about these, specifically...

https://www.f150lightningforum.com/...in-ev-charging-eaton.22008/page-2#post-430858

 

[Schroederhc1]

The Tesla Universal Wall Connector would be a good choice and can power share with up to 6 units. Also, the Autel Maxicharger would be a good choice because it has good remote access controls and can power share with up to 16 units.

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