EV Charging for Commercial Real Estate
EV charging for commercial real estate and property managers. OpConnect designs, installs, supports, and maintains chargers across all of your properties.
When you manage charging at one property, a problem is a phone call. When you manage it across a portfolio, a problem is a different vendor, a different app, and a different process at every address. We design, install, support, and maintain EV chargers across all of your commercial properties, with one support line for every site.
EV Charging for Commercial Real Estate Portfolios
Office Properties and Commercial Tenants
In office properties, tenants’ employees park for long periods, and charging in the garage or lot becomes part of the building’s amenities. Business owners leasing space want to know their staff can plug in, and employee satisfaction is part of why commercial tenants ask about charging in the first place.
Access control lets you decide which tenants, employees, and visitors can use each station.
Retail Centers and Shopping Centers
At retail locations, retail stores, and shopping centers, EV drivers stop for a meal or an errand and want to charge while they’re there. The customer experience depends on chargers that work every time, because a broken one reflects on the whole center. Unlike gas stations, a retail charging location fits around how shoppers already move through the lot, and charger types can be matched to how long each visitor stays.
Mixed-Use and Residential Properties
Many portfolios include apartment complexes and mixed-use buildings alongside commercial sites. Residents without home-charging options park overnight, office workers park all day, and a hotel guest or shopper parks for a few hours, sometimes at the same address.
For buildings where residents are the main drivers, see our page on EV charging for multifamily properties.
Why Property Owners Choose OpConnect
One Partner Across Every Property
We design, install, support, and maintain your charging infrastructure ourselves, so you work with one partner for every property instead of a different vendor at each one.
Our 24/7 customer service hotline is the same number for every site, and on-site maintenance and repair covers them all.
One Platform for the Whole Portfolio
Our cloud-based software platform provides payment processing, scheduling, and maintenance ticketing, and it allows for remote monitoring and management of your charging stations across every property.
Additional features like access control let property managers decide who charges where, and they can track energy usage by site and see which EV charging stations need attention without visiting each one.
You stay the site host without having to become one of the charge point operators running a network on your own.
Chargers Built in Portland, Oregon
Our EV chargers are American-made and built in Portland, Oregon, with 98% hardware uptime. We help you choose the right type of charger for each property, with fast chargers where visits are short and slower charging where cars park all day.
Planned Around Available Power
Every building has its own electrical systems and its own limits. Our chargers are energy managed to keep the load within the available power at each site, so you can add stations without guessing what each property can support. As a general rule, we plan each site to leave room for future growth.
Your Path to Portfolio EV Charging
Review Your Portfolio
We start by looking at your properties together: which sites have the most demand, how drivers use each one, and where charging should come first. The main thing is a plan for the portfolio, not one site at a time.
Set One Standard for Every Site
We design each property to the same standard, with consistent hardware, access, and payment setup, so tenants and EV drivers get the same experience at every address. We follow best practices from commercial businesses across the United States and North America.
Install Property by Property
Support Every Property for the Long Term
Ready to Plan EV Charging for Your Portfolio?
EV adoption keeps rising as the EV market grows, and the growing number of EV drivers means growing demand for parking spaces with charging in the coming years.
For commercial property owners, charging can play an important role in sustainability goals and send a strong message about environmental responsibility. It also supports commercial electric vehicle fleet operations for tenants that run them, and gives drivers an alternative to public chargers as the adoption of EVs continues.
Talk to our team about EV infrastructure that works the same way at every property you manage.