Charging & refunds at home
With chargeHome, we provide companies with a fair and efficient solution for charging e-vehicles at home. Our system ensures cost transparency and takes into account both drivers' needs and company guidelines.
Home charging challenges
The integration of home chargings into existing company guidelines and the fair reimbursement of employees presents companies with significant challenges. Standard solutions can only be used to a limited extent.
Three core challenges can be identified:
Cost and comfort optimization
Your field service fleet is rarely in the office. With a home charging infrastructure, you enable your employees to charge time and cost-effectively. This ensures acceptance and a comfortable experience with e-vehicles.
Equal treatment of all employees
Different living situations (electricity tariffs, charging station rentals, billing costs) make it challenging to determine the refund and the corresponding car policy.
Difficult access to charging data
Existing standard charging station solutions only work for 25% of drivers - especially in rental contracts or in apartment buildings, monitoring and reimbursing charged electricity is complex and time-consuming.
Reimbursement for home charges: simple, fair and independent of the charging station
With our chargeHome solution, we achieve complete equal treatment for all electric-driving employees. Regardless of whether it's your own or rented charging station, intelligent charging solutions or a household power adapter, we record the electricity charged at home using the car app and can thus reimburse all employees for home charges. In addition, we also take over the reimbursement for you — no new processes and additional accounting expenses for you.
Intuitive portal for fleet managers and drivers
Independent registration of the vehicle and the electricity tariff by employees
Valuable insights into charging behavior
FAQs
If your question is not answered here, you can contact us directly.
What are the charging costs? The cost of the charges consists of three components, some of which are specified by the charging station operators. Depending on the station, these components can be combined in different ways. Starting fee: We charge a one-time fee to start a charging process. Consumption-based billing: The operator charges a price for the purchase of one kilowatt hour (kWh). Time-based billing: The operator makes time-based billing (per minute). There are no further costs until the connection to the charging station is disconnected.
VISA and Mastercard
Payment is made directly via the credit card stored in the app (Visa/MasterCard)
The chargeON app is free: this means you don't need a subscription. Instead, you can download the app for free, store your credit card and purchase energy at the market prices quoted – or at preferential rates from our partners (including Migros, Fastned, Electra and AMAG). For example, you can charge your vehicle at Migrol for as little as CHF 0.39/kWh for slow chargers or CHF 0.49/kWh for fast chargers.
Depending on the charging station provider, fair use fees may apply. We have no influence over the prices of external charging stations. You can find information on whether and from when fair use fees apply at a charging station in the app at the respective charging point under ‘Additional costs’. Fair use costs are also communicated via app push notifications.
We recommend that you use the app to charge. This allows you to use all features, such as in-app support, notifications and the display of charging point prices. These functions are not available when using the charging card.