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Copyright © 2012 Coulomb Technologies, Inc.

ChargePoint and Your EV Fleet: Control and Predictability for EV Fleet Operations

October 25, 2012

Scott Miller, ChargePoint


Why are Organizations Introducing EVs into Fleets?

+ Lower operations costs• Ongoing fuel savings

• Significant maintenance savings

+ Distinguish organization as:• Environmentally conscious, clean

• Visionary

• Innovative

• Great organization to work for or do business with

+ Meet greenhouse gas reduction goals

+ Comply with clean air mandates

+ Take advantage of grant $

+ Earn LEED points

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Fleet Vision

+ “This is the latest and largest-ever addition of electric vehicles to the City’s fleet, which is already the largest municipal clean-air vehicle fleet in the nation.”

— Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, New York City

+ "The City of Anaheim has committed that 90 percent of our light and medium duty fleet will be alt fuel or electric drive by the year 2020. Installing ChargePoint is part of our plan for promoting the use of greener vehicles in our fleets, among our utility customers, and within our city.“

— Spokesperson for Anaheim Public Utilities

+ “We want to get cars in certain locations where the public can try out electric vehicle travel without having to make the commitment to buy.”

— Richard Broome, SVP Corp. Affairs & Communications Hertz3


Fleet Requirements for EV Charging

+ See at-a-glance that all electric fleet vehicles are charged and ready

+ See remotely that all stations are up and running and healthy

+ Receive alerts when something unexpected happens

+ Access detailed data to understand usage and costs and be able to slice data multiple ways and easily allocate costs

+ Easily track gasoline savings and greenhouse gas emissions prevented

+ Control who gets to use what stations

+ Support drivers who use the stations 24x7

+ Keep stations up to date

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Services for Fleet Operators Services for Drivers

ChargePoint-Enabled Stations

CustomersupportMobile apps

ChargePoint: The Solution


ChargePoint Across the Country

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ChargePoint in New England

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Single Port 220 Volt Wall Mounted Unit

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Dual Port 220 Volt with Cord Management

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Ensure Your EVs Are Always Charged and Ready

+ See at a glance where each vehicle is plugged in:• Color coding shows whether charging is in progress or complete for each

vehicle

• A special indication alerts you if any vehicles have a problem with charging

+ Summary table shows number of your EVs that are:• Fully charged

• Currently charging

• Not plugged in

• Have a charging fault

+ View charging stats for a specific fleet, or for all of your electric fleet vehicles

+ Click a vehicle on the map to view details, including charging stats, location

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Receive Daily Summary Reports

+ See centralized charging stats for your entire EV inventory (i.e., overdue for charging, charging complete)

+ Eliminate the “forgot to plug in” excuse

+ Rest assured that all fleet vehicles will be ready for next business day

+ Receive alerts by email or text at the times you specify

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Never Be Surprised by an Uncharged Vehicle

+ Receive an email and/or text message alert if a charging interruption occurs, with a vehicle that is plugged in

+ Be alerted if charging is suspended:• The cord is removed unexpectedly

• The car terminates charging

• A ground fault occurs

• The car tries to draw more power than allowed

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“We set up email notifications in Fleet Manager, and it saved us money as soon as I received an alert that one of our vehicles wasn’t charging. It had lost its connection. Getting alerted to the problem enabled us to fix it quickly and get the vehicle charged and ready for use.”

— David Head, Fleet Manager, County of Sonoma


Intelligence to Track Usage, Costs and Savings+ Monitor energy consumption to track ongoing fuel costs

• Summarize by department, fleet or vehicle

• Export by department or fleet for easy accounting / cross-department billingof fuel costs

• Export by vehicle, combine with other data to manage vehicle lifecycles

+ See gasoline avoided to track fuel cost savings• Track by vehicle, fleet, department and entire electric vehicle inventory

+ Track greenhouse gas emissions prevented for• Reporting ongoing progress and success of sustainability initiatives

• Grant reporting

+ Review station utilization by time of day, know when and where you need to add more stations

+ View detailed data on charging sessions, start and stop times, charge duration

+ Pull summary reports by day, week, month and year, or filter reports by any custom time period

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Simplicity

Fleet Management

+Simply log in and configure: • Access

• Pricing

• Reservations

• Display messages

+ See real-time stations status

ChargePoint Services Team

+Monitors real-time station alarms

+ Diagnoses, re-sets and upgrades stations remotely

+ Keeps entire system up-to-date

+ Supports station owners

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No IT staff required to deploy and maintain


Insight

+ See the status of all your stations, all the time

+ See at-a-glance which of your stations are:• In use

• Available

• Experiencing a fault

+ Ensure all your stations are healthy• Color-coding alerts you to any problems

+ Status is real-time and up to date

+ Fleet drivers can also see availability• Using ChargePoint mobile app

+ Or in-car/mobile navigation systems

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Driver/Station Owner Support

+ ChargePoint 24x7 station-side services • Driver support number on every charging station

• Driver support number on ChargePoint card

• Support phone number on driver web site

• Driver alerted if ever charging is interrupted

• Driver support phone # appears in email alerts

• Driver support email address prominent in mobile apps

+ Ensures a good driver experience

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Share Stations with the Public to Offset Costs

+ Reserve a station at set hours for fleet vehicles, while allowing public pay-for-use access at other hours

+ Structure pay-for-use fees exactly as you want• Structure by time, charging session, or kWh

• Set different fees by time of day

• Define minimum or maximum payments (maximize revenues)

+ Set different fees by time of day to take advantage of time-of-use electricity pricing, or to optimize revenues

+ Optionally set fees differently by station

+ Create preferential pricing for any driver or group

+ Allow ChargePoint to process all payments, and transfer funds into your account monthly

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Drivers Can Fuel Up Wherever They Go

+ Thousands of public charging spots up and running on ChargePoint

+ Drivers can use their ChargePoint card to access stations outside the fleet depot• All usage tracked to ChargePoint account, regardless of stations

used

+ Drivers can find ChargePoint stations with:• ChargePoint mobile apps

• ChargePoint web site

• A variety of navigation systems

+ Drivers see station availability from these apps

+ Drivers can view charging stats as car charges

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ChargePoint: Open Charging Network Leader

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Top Company inElectric Vehicle Supply Market

#1 in Strategy

#1 in Execution

#1 Overall


Thank You

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For further information, please contact:

Scott [email protected]

+1.617.209.2278

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