EV Charging and Parking Solutions

Securing EV Charging Bays and preventing ICEing

As EVs become increasingly popular, ensuring that EV charging bays are always ready and available for EV drivers is an absolute must. And critical for parking operators and buildings with parking that provide EV charging infrastructure.

Overcoming ICEing – how to stop people parking in EV charging bays

Diesel or petrol vehicles (also known as Internal Combustion Engine – or ICE vehicles occupying EV charging bays, or EVs overstaying in these spots without charging, is a significant problem. Commonly known as ICEing, it throws a spanner in the works of the smooth functioning of EV charging infrastructure:

• EV drivers face inconvenience: when an ICE vehicle occupies an EV charging bay, blocking access for electric vehicles. Range anxiety is real for EV drivers so EV bays need to be available
• Increased demand for chargers: as EV adoption accelerates, so does the need for EV chargers. Lack of charging availability puts the brakes on EV uptake
• Illegal parking: EV driver complaints are stressful, waste time and resources, creating operational burdens for facilities managers in parking operations.
• Potential conflicts: ICEing can spark off friction and disputes between EV and non-EV drivers as to who can use the parking spot.

As a forward-thinking commercial parking operator, Wilson Parking commenced program of rolling out EV chargers in designated EV charging bays. They found that painting them green and adding signage wasn’t enough to stop unauthorized parking or ICEing.

Seeing this challenge, Wilson Parking teamed up with thatsMYspot to deploy our smart parking bollards in their EV charging bays to efficiently solve these challenges.

We understand the importance of creating a harmonious and seamless EV charging experience for those using EV chargers in parking stations and any other parking assets. By leveraging our innovative solutions, we help parking operators, owners and EV drivers optimise their EV charging experience and enhance overall EV charging management efficiency.

Case Study: EV Charging Bays for Wilson Parking

Wilson Parking is proactively deploying EV chargers at its parking stations. In this existing parking station in Melbourne’s (Little Bourke St), Wilson installed 2 new EV charging bays directly adjacent to the parking station entry boom gates, promoting high visibility for the green revolution. However they quickly found that the convenience of easy parking close to the entry without any deterrent, meant that non-EV drivers were just using those same bays as regular parking spots, ICEing the EV bays – which meant more work for the onsite manager chasing those illegal parkers down.

Wilson Parking has used thatsMYspot bollards for several of its sites where long-term parking is allocated to commercial tenants. Now with this new challenge of securing EV charging bays, Wilson again partnered with thatsMYspot to install motorised smart bollards into these designated EV parking bays. Ensuring that those bays are available for drivers wishing to charge their EVs at the this convenient Wilson parking station in metro Melbourne.

Wilson Parking enhances the EV charging experience by combining our automated bollards with their booking platform. Physical bollards secure the bay for EV drivers, eliminating ICEing and ensuring a smooth experience.

By implementing That’s My Spot’s innovative parking solution specifically to secure bookings for EV charging bays, Wilson Parking is able to control access to EV charging bays and bookings. This also helps Wilson Parking in forward planning as to usage of, and where, when and how many EV chargers to roll out across their parking operations.

The Result

• Easier Management: Parking station managers can easily secure and allocate EV charging bays using the Wilson parking app.
• Lower Maintenance Costs: reducing the operation team’s wasted time chasing illegally parked cars
• Optimising turnover of EV bays: The combination of or the hospitality venues due to easily available parking.
• Enhance EV driver customer satisfaction: EV drivers now have certainty around their EV charging bay availability during their booking time windows.
• Increased Convenience: Automated bollards provided quick and easy access for EV drivers at all times.

For more information on implementing effective parking strategies and the benefits of smart parking bollards, visit That’s My Spot and start optimising your EV charging bays parking with our EV Charging parking solutions today.

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