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01Ebook

Home Charging as an Operator Product

Turning private chargers into a managed service

18 pagesPDFUpdated 22 May 2026

What you get

Takeaways

  • Where the revenue is in home charging, and where it is not
  • Reimbursement for employees and fleet drivers charging at home
  • What a home charger must support to be manageable remotely
  • The tariff and metering questions that decide whether it works

Contents

  1. 01

    Four business models

    Hardware sale, managed service, reimbursement platform and utility programme — what each earns and what each requires.

  2. 02

    Reimbursement is the wedge

    Employers and fleets need to pay drivers for energy consumed at home, accurately and auditably. That is a software problem, and it is unsolved for most of them.

  3. 03

    Specifying a manageable home unit

    The OCPP capabilities that separate a home charger you can support from one that generates a site visit.

  4. 04

    Tariffs, metering and the DisCom

    Time-of-day domestic tariffs, separate metering, and what can be evidenced for reimbursement.

  5. 05

    Support at household scale

    Why remote diagnostics matter more here than anywhere else, and what a realistic support model looks like.

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