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Why Electric Vehicles?

By making electric vehicles a part of your life, you’ll help safeguard a sustainable, beautiful New Zealand for future generations and cut the cost of getting out and enjoying it. EVs offer you countless, long-term advantages.

Why Schneider Electric’s EVLink?

Schneider Electric’s EVLink range will let you travel with confidence. You’ll be sure of your charge; you’ll know your family and property is protected by EVLink’s meticulous safety profile, and your vehicle will offer superior performance for longer.

Electric Vehicle charging – What you need to know

Electric vehicles (EVs) are on the rise in New Zealand and will become more common on our roads, thanks to their ability to help reduce carbon emissions. Whether you already have an EV, are planning to get one, or simply want to make your home future-ready, the EVLink Wallbox from PDL by Schneider Electric is a must-have.

Weatherproof and robust, the EVLink Wallbox can be installed outside or in your garage and lets you charge an electric vehicle faster, more reliably and with greater safety than with a domestic socket outlet.

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Home charging

Family packing Car
EV Car charging
Family packing EV car in garage
Family packing Car
EV Car charging
Family packing EV car in garage

Charging made easy

Choosing Schneider Electric’s EVLink Wallbox guarantees easy electric vehicle charging for you and your family. Simple ‘plug and play’ operation ensures your vehicle is available on your schedule and ready to go when you are.

Charging is delivered quickly, safely and cost effectively in the garage, carport or driveway. The EVLink Wallbox is designed to be unobtrusive in your home with an elegant aesthetic, robust construction and clever charging cable storage to save space. It can be mounted on the wall, or floor standing using an optional mounting pole, providing you flexibility and convenience.

Robust and secure

Carefully designed to be weatherproof and robust, the EV Wallbox will deliver you assured charging, long-term. Its IP54 rating makes it suitable for outdoor use and protection against the elements and its robust (IK10 rated) construction offers high protection from mechanical impacts.

To ensure security, the EVLink Wallbox is key-lockable and includes a theft-proof power cable. You can restrict access to prevent unauthorised starting or stopping of a charging session. Its designed to operate safely in New Zealand’s wide temperature range, and silver-plated contacts on the socket outlet help avoid overheating.

High quality and easy to install

Schneider Electric guarantees the long-life of your electric vehicle charger with complete New Zealand support for both homeowners and installers. You can be confident in access to advice, service and a large stock of parts and accessories.

Talking to your electrician will help ensure that your home is EV-ready. They can discuss the best placement, orientation and set-up for your EVLink Wallbox, and installation is easy. Be ready to go with confidence that your charging solution is tailored to you and your home.

Home charging key features:

  • Application – Perfect for inside or outside your home or small business
  • Convenience – “Plug and go” charging at any time
  • Time – Rapid charging when compared with a standard socket
  • Energy management – Save on power by installing a timer to schedule off-peak charge times
  • Simplicity – Connect your car and stop/start charging with “one-touch”
  • Extensive options – To suit all electric vehicles
  • Built to last – Robust construction and weather resistant
  • Secure – Lockable to prevent unauthorised operation and theft proof cable

Smart Charging

Car park with EV chargers
EV Car charging
Car park with EV chargers
EV Car charging

Charging multiple vehicles

Ideal for workforces, semi-public parking areas or apartment complexes, the EVLink Smart Wallbox can handle multiple users. Designed to provide all-day charging to multiple vehicles, the safety and performance profile of the EVLink Smart Wallbox makes it the perfect solution for smaller fleets.

Adjustable charging power enables users to accommodate different vehicle power requirements and ensure the ideal charge. Simple ‘plug and charge’ operation plus LED indicated charging status makes life easy for users. RFID badge authentication restricts charging to authorised users.

Access and control

The EVLink Smart Wallbox delivers full control of charging activities. Authorising and managing users, performing remote maintenance and generating reports and billing is all made possible with the Smart Wallbox’s on-board connectivity to your choice of back-end system provider.

Connecting and communicating with your EVLink Smart Wallboxes is possible via an optional 3G/4G modem or Ethernet connection. Managers can see usage and allocate costs to users, teams or departments.

Smart charging key features:

  • Application – Perfect for semi-public parking facilities, corporate EV fleets, and apartment complexes
  • Capacity – Provide all-day charging for smaller fleets
  • Control – Authorise and manage user access and operation
  • Connected - Perform remote management and maintenance with in-built connectivity
  • Extensive options – Adjustable charging power to suit all electric vehicles
  • Built to last – Robust construction and weather resistant
  • Secure – Lockable to prevent unauthorised operation and theft proof cable
  • Authentication – RFID scanning restricts operation to authorised users only
  • Simplicity – Connect your car and stop/start charging with “one-touch”

On-street and commercial

Lady in snow charging EV Car
Man in car park, charging car with EV charger
Lady on street charging car with EV charger
Lady in snow charging EV Car
Man in car park, charging car with EV charger
Lady on street charging car with EV charger

Reliable & robust public charging

Where commercial fleets or numerous public vehicles need to stay charged, the EVLink Parking charging station is essential.

Perfect for large office blocks, retail stores and malls, supermarkets, libraries, hotels, aged care facilities and airports. Schneider Electric has designed the EVLink Parking charging station to deliver superior charging capacity and provide total operating control. Fully adaptable power control enables power adjustment of the charging station and configuration of power metering. You can perform diagnostics and tailor the power usage of the charging station to expected loads and requirements.

Extensive support through Schneider Electric services

Schneider Electric provides you access to its extensive network of trained installers who can provide on-site installation, on-site commissioning, annual maintenance plans and on-demand repair and asset management contracts.

They can advise you on your installation and usage strategy to determine factors such as: authorisation and access, connection and administration protocols, stand-alone installation or clustered architecture and whether electrical protection devices will be in an external cabinet or in the parking station floor base.

Once installed, you can enjoy anytime-access to Schneider Electric’s nationwide customer care centre and guarantee long-term, high-performance charging.

Tailored, adaptable and versatile

The EVLink Parking charging station is designed to be tailored to your unique applications with a range of mounting options and accessories. User authentication options, one or two socket outlets and various wall or free-standing mounting options are available.

Schneider Electric also stocks an extensive range of spare parts including floor bases, socket outlets, caps and flaps. Accidental damage or wear and tear can be remedied quickly and efficiently to keep your chargers operating and performing.

On-street and commercial key features:

  • Application - Perfect for large office blocks, retail stores and malls, supermarkets, libraries, hotels, aged care facilities and airports
  • Connected - Perform remote management and maintenance with its connectivity feature
  • Adaptable – Multiple mounting options and outlet configurations

 

  • Control – Full adaptable power control to manage and charge volume, capacity and duration
  • Support - Extensive range of spare parts and nationwide network of certified installers
  • Tailored – Install and commission to your unique application and environment

Complementary offers

Not just chargers, but EV solutions

Choosing EV means some safety and power management considerations and challenges will present themselves. Schneider Electric is uniquely positioned to provide additional services and products to ensure safe reliable charging for all users.

Schneider Electric provides a complete power solution to accompany your electric vehicle strategy. Beyond the charging technology, expertise and product solutions for power management, load control, metering, monitoring and safety devices are all available from Schneider Electric.

Key EV considerations

Schneider Electric aims to deliver you simultaneous charging of the largest number of vehicles as quickly as possible. If your building wasn’t designed with electric vehicle charging in mind, Schneider Electric has a dynamic Load Management System to address such constraints and ensure maximized charging with the available electrical capacity.

Talking to us about your EV requirements can avoid facility disruption, reduce operating losses, reduces energy and electrical infrastructure costs, increases driver satisfaction and make operation more efficient.

Are you an electrician wanting to learn more?

Learn how to create an effective EV charging infrastructure via our free webinar training in the mySchneider Partner Portal.

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