Private chargers
Chargers for personal use where the owner pays for all sessions: home features like scheduling and family sharing, tied to a location, ideal for condominiums and shared residential properties.
A private charger is designed for personal use where the owner pays for all charging sessions. It includes home charging features such as scheduling and family sharing, making it ideal for condominiums and shared residential properties: the charger sits in a shared parking facility, but it belongs to one household.
How private chargers differ
- Location-bound: unlike a home charger, a private charger belongs to a location (only public locations can be selected). That is what enables load balancing across a shared garage and paid charging.
- The owner pays: the Enable paid charging setting exists only for private chargers and drives their billing: the owner's sessions are billed to them.
- Not public: private chargers never appear in the public app; only the owner and their shared family members can use them.
Adding a private charger
- Go to Charge Points → Private chargers and click Add new private charger.
- Fill out the charger details and select the location (for example the condominium's garage).
- Under Owner settings, invite the owner via email or generate an offline redemption code, exactly like a home charger (see Home chargers for the redemption flow).
Load balancing in shared garages
Because private chargers belong to a location, they participate in the location's load balancing zones like any other charger, which is usually essential in a condominium garage with limited grid capacity. See Load Balancing.
Common questions
Who can charge on a private charger? The owner and the family members they share it with in the app. It is never available to the public.
Who pays for the electricity? The owner: private chargers are designed so the owner pays for all charging sessions.
Why does a private charger need a location? The location is what enables load balancing (critical in shared garages) and paid charging. Only public locations can be selected as the container.
When do I choose Private over Home? When the charger sits in a shared property (condominium, housing association) where sessions must be billed to the owner and the site needs load balancing across many residents' chargers.
Updated 5 days ago