Home EV charging for fleets, made simple
Help return-to-home drivers begin each day charged and ready. Paua connects home charging, electricity costs and business mileage so your organisation can reimburse drivers fairly and manage everything in one place.
What is home charging for an electric fleet?
Home charging allows drivers to charge a company electric vehicle at home, usually overnight, so the vehicle is ready for work the following day.
For fleets with return-to-home cars and vans, it can reduce charging costs, minimise driver downtime and reduce dependence on public charging.
The driver normally pays for the electricity through their household energy bill. The business therefore needs a fair and auditable way to identify the electricity used for business driving and reimburse the driver.
Paua Reimburse brings charging data, electricity tariffs, mileage and payment records together, helping businesses manage home charging across an electric fleet.
Home charging makes electric fleets easier to operate
For many fleets, home charging is one of the biggest advantages of moving to electric vehicles.
Drivers can plug in when they finish work and begin the next day with a charged vehicle. Charging happens while the vehicle would otherwise be parked, creating little or no additional downtime.
Convenient for drivers
Drivers charge at home rather than making a separate journey to a public charging location.
Less operational downtime
Cars and vans can charge overnight, helping drivers begin the working day ready to travel.
Lower charging costs
Domestic electricity is often more cost-effective than relying solely on rapid public charging.
Easier to scale
Home charging can complement workplace, depot and public charging as the electric fleet grows.
Transition statement
The charging itself is straightforward. Paying for it properly is the part businesses need to solve.
When a driver pays for business electricity through their personal energy bill, the organisation must decide:
- What electricity should be reimbursed
- What rate should be used
- How business and private mileage will be separated
- What evidence should be retained
- How payments will be approved and processed
Paua Reimburse is designed to manage these questions across different drivers, vehicles, tariffs and home charging arrangements.
Home chargers that work with Paua Reimburse
Paua works with leading home charger manufacturers and energy technology providers to support the transition to electric fleets.
Connected home chargers can automatically provide charging session data to Paua Reimburse. This reduces manual administration and helps calculate reimbursement using recorded electricity consumption rather than estimates.
Paua supports direct charger integrations alongside wider compatibility through selected technology partners.
Direct Paua integrations
Easee
Connect Easee home charging data to Paua Reimburse for automated, tariff-based fleet reimbursement.
Humax
Combine Humax connected home charging with accurate reimbursement for company cars and fleet drivers.
Indra
Use connected Indra charger data to support accurate and auditable EV home charging reimbursement.
myenergi
Connect compatible myenergi home chargers with Paua Reimburse to simplify reimbursement for electric fleet drivers.
Zaptec
Bring Zaptec home charging data into Paua Reimburse and calculate the cost of business charging automatically.
How home charging works with Paua Reimburse
Enrol the driver
Connect the charging data
Charge at home
The fleet adds the driver and vehicle to Paua Reimburse and selects the appropriate reimbursement policy.
Where supported, the driver connects their compatible home charger or relevant data account to Paua.
Alternative reimbursement methods can be used when a compatible connected charger is not available.
The driver charges their company car or van at home as normal. Connected charging sessions are recorded automatically. Drivers identify personal miles or personal charging.
Calculate the business cost
Review and reimburse
Paua applies the relevant electricity tariff and reimbursement method, including the business and private mileage split where required.
The business reviews the claim and processes payment through payroll or the agreed payment route. Paua retains the information supporting the calculation.
One fleet. Different drivers. Flexible reimbursement.
Not every driver has the same vehicle, charger, tariff or pattern of use.
Paua Reimburse supports a range of reimbursement approaches so organisations can choose the right method for each driver group.
Connected charger data
Use recorded charging sessions and the applicable electricity tariff to calculate the cost of energy delivered at home.
Best suited to drivers with compatible connected home chargers.
Vehicle and energy calculations
Calculate energy consumption using vehicle efficiency, business mileage and the driver’s electricity cost.
This can support drivers where direct charger data is not available.
Sustainability Leaders
Apply an agreed mileage-based reimbursement method where this is appropriate for the organisation and driver.
This offers a simpler route, although it may not always reflect the driver’s actual electricity cost.
Includes eHGV & large commercial vehicle charging
Compare Paua Reimburse methodsOne platform across every charging location
Home charging should not become another separate fleet system
Drivers do not only charge in one place.
A vehicle may charge at home overnight, at a workplace during the day, at a shared depot between jobs and on the public charging network during longer journeys.
Paua brings these charging locations together within one fleet charging platform.
How home charging works with Paua Reimburse
What is the best EV charge card?
Here are some questions to help you search for the best RFID EV charge card. When you compare EV Charge Cards to find the best EV charge card you should consider the following factors:
- Does the EV charge card work across enough networks?
- Does the EV charge card have a wide enough density of charging points?
- Does the EV charge card have an associated mobile phone app to support drivers finding EV chargers?
- Does your EV charge card provider offer an integrated dashboard for real time updates on your businesses charging?
- Does your EV charge card provider enable you to simply access your EV charging data?
- Does your EV charge card provider enable you to block cards that are lost or stolen with the touch of a button? In the app and the dashboard?
- How much will I pay for my EV charge card? How much does charging cost on my EV charge card?
Paua is able to give you a positive response on all the above with 24 networks, 54,000 charge point connectors, one Paua app for every driver, a powerful charging dashboard, full access to your data and the ability to freeze or remove EV charge cards directly inside the app and the dashboard.
Buyer beware - there are some websites out there that appear as independent comparison sites for fuel cards but they are not. Please make sure that you know who you are researching with.
- Icompario - owned by Radius Fuel cards.
- CompareFuelCards - owned by Fleetcor (AllStar's parent company).
Here are some of the networks on the Paua EV charge card
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And many more! See the latest list of Paua EV network partners here.
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EV charge cards provide access to many brands of EV charging stations : Paua provides access to a network of public charging points
Electric fleet managers need the largest network of charge point connectors that they can access. Paua delivers this to make the conversion to an electric fleet easier.
Learn more about the Paua electric vehicle charging network and our multi-brand offering from leading electric vehicle charge point companies.
Learn more about the Paua electric vehicle charging network and our multi-brand offering from leading electric vehicle charge point companies.
Drivers save time with our mobile app enabling them to search for the appropriate charge point connector near them. No other EV charge card partner offers this much choice.
Drivers save time with our mobile app enabling them to search for the appropriate charge point connector near them. No other EV charge card partner offers this much choice.
Our partnership approach to working with charge point operators means that we regularly bring on more partners. Keep an eye out for the latest announcements.
Paua's charge point partners are leaders in their fields. Each partner provides Paua with live data so that you and your drivers can see where the best locations are for you to charge your electric car or electric van as well as whether it is available to use right now.
Paua's network partners cater to two use cases:
Case 1.
Rapid charging electric vehicles whilst out on the road enabling your drivers to quickly get back onto the job. Networks such as Osprey and Fastned are providing chargers capable of 150kW or more of ultra fast charging.
Case 2.
Slower overnight chargers capable of delivering a charge to a vehicle whilst your driver sleeps. Char.gy are a leader in this field and can work with customers to ensure chargers in the location they need.