Charging solutions for electric bus fleets

The transition of bus fleets from combustion engine to electric drive is in full swing – in Germany, in Europe, all over the world. In 2030 over 60,000 electric buses – one third of the current public transport inventory – could be on the roads providing regular transport in European cities.

This is also a major opportunity for your transportation company to operate in a more environmentally friendly way in the future. Electric drive is also clearly superior to the combustion engine when it comes to driving characteristics and ease of maintenance.

However, transitioning to electric buses does pose new challenges for your infrastructure and business processes. You can master them with an intelligent charging solution.

We support you in in setting up a future-proof charging infrastructure and making your bus operations ready for the electrical age.

In particular, we provide answers to the following questions:

• What specific challenges are there in operating an electric bus fleet?
• How can you ensure that your vehicles are ready for use at all times?
• Why is smart charging and energy management essential for efficient and cost-optimized operations? 

When you are electrifying your bus fleet, there are a large number of factors to be taken into account. Nevertheless, there is one aspect that should be considered above all else: the right charging and energy management system. This has a major impact on how flexible, efficient, and affordable your future operating processes will be. 

ChargePilot, our Charging and Energy Management system, reliably charges your electric buses and reduces your investment and operation costs. With its open interface, it can easily be used with other systems, such as a depot management system.

The system can then monitor all charging processes and prevent expensive load peaks. This can also minimize any expansion of the network. The dynamic load management system can also adjust the charging processes of the other electricity consumers at your location. Thanks to its modular design, ChargePilot can grow along with your requirements, and it can also be used with charging stations made by different manufacturers.

Reduce investment costs

Control the charging processes of your electric buses intelligently. This means you will need fewer charging stations in total.

Minimize grid connection costs

When you control the charging of your bus fleet, a smaller grid connection is sufficient.

Lower grid usage charges

You can save on grid usage charges every month by reducing load peaks.

Save on energy costs

Charge during low-price phases and benefit consistently – this lowers your monthly electricity costs.

Connexxion: An electric bus fleet benefits from smart control 

„We are excited about our cooperation with The Mobility House, which supports us as a knowledgeable expert in charging and energy management. With their product ChargePilot, we can efficiently charge and operate our fleet of electric busses and also have flexibility when expanding.“ 
– Josh Carmichael –

The Dutch bus company Connexxion, one of the largest electric bus fleets in Europe, has come to rely on the smart Charging and Energy Management System ChargePilot. The challenge for this company is the extremely high volume of visitors at its Schiphol Airport location: on an average day, 10 MWh flow into the batteries of 100 vehicles. 

Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (rnv): Smart charging management for daily city e-bus operators

„The connection capacity required for our electric buses is well managed by the charging and energy management system from The Mobility House.“ 
– Stefan Prüfer –

Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (rnv) transportation company has put all-electric city buses into everyday use. The Mobility House has contributed a custom-designed charging and energy management system to ensure that bus batteries are always optimally charged at the lowest cost possible. 

Basel Public Transport: Bus fleet being prepared for an electric future

„The Mobility House team won us over with their extensive expertise, practical experience and their willingness to take our customer’s specific circumstances and issues into account to the greatest extent possible.“ – Pascal Lippmann –

The first step to successful electrification is good planning. In cooperation with The Mobility House, the transportation company Basler Verkehrsbetriebe BVB carried out a comprehensive study. Along with completing detailed analyses of the bus routes, scheduling requirements and the future energy and power needs of the electric bus fleet, specific hardware and software recommendations were agreed upon and the associated costs calculated.