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Sign upJune 1, 2024
JCDecaux
Paris
As corporate car fleets transition to electric vehicles, the cost and complexity of charging infrastructure often slow deployment. Conventional 7.4 kW wallboxes cost around €1,000 each, require expensive electrical works, and involve regular maintenance, making them difficult to install at scale.
JCDecaux, a global advertising company, faced this issue as it expanded the electrification of its company cars. To overcome it, the company adopted EVA and ELISA low-power charging sockets: compact 3.7 and 7.4 kW sockets, allowing more vehicles to be charged within the same grid connection
The innovation lies in the simplified hardware. Unlike conventional wallboxes, EVA and ELISA devices were stripped of most embedded “smart” functions (such as access control, payment, or load management) and moved to the cloud-based supervision software. This radically simplified, plug-and-play architecture reduced internal complexity, cut costs, and lowered the risk of malfunction - while still giving operators access to advanced administration features.
The first deployment of 30+ sockets delivered immediate savings. Compared to the €1,000 wallboxes JCDecaux previously used, EVA and ELISA sockets (€60 and €100 each) cut costs by around 60% per parking space, once electrical works were included. Savings came not only from cheaper hardware, but also from 30% lower electrical works.
Maintenance savings were equally significant. By avoiding these expenses, JCDecaux saved €5,000 to €7,000 in maintenance costs during the pilot - and expects to save around €5,000 annually going forward.
We provide low-power smart charging devices to corporate, condominiums or public parkings, everywhere cars, bikes or scooters are parked for a long time during the day or at night. Our focus on low power charging result in a super cost-effective solution, inexpensive and easy to deploy solution. Because we are convinced that in order to become a common service of any parking, charging sockets have to become a commodity and be priced as such.
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