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Commercial EV Charger Installation in Christchurch

EVs are arriving in your staff car park whether you plan for them or not. We design and install commercial charging for Christchurch businesses — from a single workplace charger to load-managed multi-charger banks with per-user billing — installed by EWRB-registered electricians with compliance certification on every circuit.

  • Free site assessment and written fixed-price design
  • Three-phase 11–22kW hardware, OCPP billing platforms
  • Load management — more chargers without a supply upgrade
  • Scales as your fleet and staff uptake grows
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Commercial EV charger bank at a Christchurch workplace car park
Who It’s For

Four Kinds of Commercial Charging We Install

Workplace & staff charging

Chargers in the staff car park have become a genuine recruitment and retention perk — and with per-user authentication, you choose whether charging is free, subsidised or billed per kWh. Sessions are logged automatically for FBT and reporting.

Fleet depots

Vans and utes that return to base each night are the perfect EV use case. We design overnight depot charging that fills every vehicle inside your off-peak window, load-managed so the site supply never trips — usually without a network capacity upgrade.

Customer & visitor parking

Cafes, gyms, supermarkets and accommodation providers use destination charging to attract EV drivers who choose where to stop by where they can plug in — and stay longer once they do. Billing can run per session, per kWh, or free as a drawcard.

Apartment & commercial buildings

Body corporates and property managers future-proofing their buildings: shared infrastructure that residents’ chargers join over time, with per-user metering from day one. Individual owners should start on our apartment & townhouse page.

Our Approach

Designed Around Your Supply, Not a Brochure

Commercial charging succeeds or fails on electrical design. Every project starts with a site assessment: your incoming supply, distribution boards, cable routes and realistic charging demand. From there we design the smallest system that does the job properly — and a growth path for when uptake doubles.

  • Hardware — commercial-grade OCPP chargers such as the Evnex X7 and X22 (7.4kW single-phase to 22kW three-phase), chosen for NZ support and open-standard compatibility, never locked to one network.
  • Load management — dynamic load balancing across the charger bank means four, six or ten chargers can share the capacity that would naively supply two.
  • Billing & access — app or RFID authentication, per-kWh billing, session reporting for FBT and sustainability disclosures.
  • Compliance — all work by EWRB-registered electricians to AS/NZS 3000, with certification issued for every circuit installed.

Have a company vehicle that lives at a director’s home? We handle that too — a standard home installation with the session data your accountant needs. Indicative residential pricing is on our cost page; commercial systems are individually quoted.

Commercial Questions

Commercial EV Charging FAQs

A single 7.4kW workplace charger typically lands between $2,500 and $4,000 installed. Three-phase 22kW units, multi-charger banks, distribution board work and long cable runs add to that — which is why commercial jobs are individually designed and quoted. You receive a written fixed-price proposal with hardware, electrical work, commissioning and certification itemised before anything is ordered.

Yes. OCPP chargers connect to a management platform that authenticates each user by app or RFID card, meters every session, and can bill per kWh automatically — or provide free charging while still logging usage for FBT records and sustainability reporting. You keep control of pricing and access rules.

Almost certainly more than you think. With dynamic load management the charger bank shares your real headroom and winds back when the building is drawing hard, so a naive “22kW per charger” calculation wildly overstates what you need. Our site assessment measures actual capacity and models charging demand before we specify anything.

If vehicles sit for an hour or more — staff parking, overnight fleets, hotels, gyms — AC charging at 7–22kW wins on economics every time, at a fraction of the hardware and supply cost. DC fast charging only makes sense where turnaround must happen in minutes, such as public highway sites. We’ll give you a straight answer for your situation, not an upsell.

Get Your Workplace EV-Ready

Free site assessment · Written fixed-price design · EWRB-registered · Certification on every circuit. Call 021 194 9138 or request a quote online.

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Service Area

EV Charger Installation Service Areas – Christchurch & Canterbury

We install home EV chargers right across Christchurch, Selwyn, Waimakariri and Banks Peninsula. These are our main service areas — if your suburb isn’t listed, we almost certainly still cover it.

Don’t see your area? We service every Christchurch suburb and most of Canterbury — get in touch or browse EV chargers across Christchurch.