5 reasons to buy a charging station for at home

The biggest advantage of your own charging station is that it's on your own driveway or in your garage. This way, you don't have to look for a public charging station. You can charge your car right away when you need to, so you'll drive off with a full battery each morning. With Coolblue Energy Smart Charging, you can also set a charging schedule. As soon as you plug the charging cable in your car and scan your Charge Card, you'll charge your car during the set times.

Do you have solar panels on your roof? You can charge your car with the solar power you generate. As a result, you use less power from your energy supplier and save on your energy bill. In the future, you can store energy in your car during a sunny day. You can then use this energy for your oven or washing machine later at night. This function is called bidirectional charging. The system of our BlueBuilt charging stations is prepared for this.

You have to spend money to purchase your own charging station. But in the long term, having your own charging station is more beneficial. If you charge your car at your own charging station, you pay the standard rate of your energy supplier. This rate is an amount between € 0.20 and € 0.35 per kilowatt-hour (kWh). For a public charging station, you pay an average of € 0.65. It's even € 0.85 for fast charging. With your own charging station, you can save up to about € 600 per year.

Charging your car requires a lot of energy. Do you use a regular socket to charge it? Chances are the fuses in your fuse box will blow. It also takes a long while before the car is charged. A charging station has useful functions, so you can charge your car safer and 10 times faster. With load balancing, the charging station adjusts itself to the available energy, when you turn on the washing machine or dryer for example.

If you have your own charging station, you can easily make it available for others to use. That way, your friends or neighbors can charge their car at your house as well. You'll get this power reimbursed. That way, you don't just help others with an extra charging station, but you make money yourself too.