Battery knowledge · Charging infrastructure
Depot charging
Charging a fleet of buses or trucks at the depot, usually overnight at 50–150 kW per vehicle, which keeps cell stress low and lets an energy-management system sequence the chargers against the site’s grid connection.
- Also called
- overnight charging
Example
Charging infrastructure: an example situation
A 100 kW model request does not establish real voltage, current, connector or negotiation compatibility.
Read Depot charging alongside Electric bus in this context. A battery-electric city or coach bus, with packs of 300–700 kWh on the roof and at the rear, LFP or NMC, charged overnight in the depot or at the terminus by pantograph. Its duty cycle — long hours, deep daily cycles, a twelve-year life — makes battery aging the central engineering question.
Use in Lemonergy
Lemonergy Studio blocks
Share a site supply
Multiple branches share one power cap.
Blocks to use
- Shared site power allocator
Shares grid-side power
Inputs & settings
- limitW
- ports
- allocation
- Charging schedule and target policy
Permits charging
Inputs & settings
- strategy
- targetSoc
- departureS
- soc, available, chargerDone → permit
- Regulated CC/CV charger
Regulates current and voltage
Inputs & settings
- currentA
- voltageV
- cutoffCurrentA / cutoffHoldS
- Electrical ports p and n
- Battery with SOC-dependent OCV
Stores charge and supplies terminal voltage
Inputs & settings
- capacityAh
- initialSoc
- emptyVoltageV / fullVoltageV
- resistanceOhm
- Electrical ports p and n
This overview identifies the components to use. Follow the example in Lemonergy for their connections and settings.
- Compare proportional and input-priority allocation.
- Lower the cap at fixed departure times.
Example. Three vehicles requesting 11 kW each under a 22 kW cap initially receive 7.33 kW each with proportional allocation.
Observe. The site cap can hold while a vehicle misses its target.
Downstream unused capacity is not silently redistributed.
Open the Studio example →References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center
Topic background · U.S. charging equipment levels, charging infrastructure and connector context. Regional terminology varies.