More vehicles charged on the existing grid connection

Logistics companies move goods with their own electric trucks and vans and charge them at their own depots. They own the vehicle, the charger and often a battery at the depot, all three at once.

The job is to keep the depot’s peak inside the grid connection and to get cost per kilometre below diesel. Every truck also has to leave in the morning with enough range for its route.

Why the cable, not the business, decides how many trucks a depot runs

The grid company bills the highest 15 minutes of the month, and that charge is often 20 to 30% of the energy bill. A 40 truck depot needs 2 to 6 MW, and a bigger connection costs €70,000 to millions with years of waiting. Until then, the number of trucks that can charge overnight is capped by the cable.

In a 2026 study of 1,114 vehicles, the truck’s own BMS missed 93% of the worst packs. Real capacity differed by 12 to 25% between trucks of the same model. Trucks that looked fine the evening before failed in the morning.

Heavy commercial packs that mostly fast charge lose around 5% a year. Health charging reduces that by up to 14% over 100,000 km, on a truck that costs around €275,000. That protects cost per kilometre now and resale value later. The usage certificate for the 2027 battery passport builds itself from the same data.

Anomaly detection shows the evening before which trucks will not make the morning. Planners assign another vehicle instead of facing a missed delivery.