Chargie: Features, Pricing and Integrations

Chargie sells turnkey EV charging to multifamily: Level 2 stations at 32 amps (7.68 kW) and 48 amps (11.52 kW), DC fast chargers from ABB, BTC Power and Tritium, a management platform with real-time monitoring, a Chargie mobile app for residents, and a 24/7/365 network operations center behind it all. The company handles engineering, installation, support and what it calls end-to-end project management. Its homepage claims 1,200 or more buildings and properties and 18,000 or more charging stations installed, and its client list names Greystar, Bell Partners, Jamison, Brookfield and Decron. That is the institutional end of the multifamily EV charging category, and the facts panel below is rendered from our vendor database with a source and verification date on each entry.

Who it fits

The database tags institutional multifamily only, and the client names say why. The buyer is a portfolio owner or third-party manager standardizing charging across many garages, who wants one vendor responsible for the engineering, the install and the phone that rings when a port goes dark. Chargie’s multifamily page pitches the revenue side plainly: the property adjusts station pricing to earn a profit or cover its costs, so the amenity is meant to pay for itself.

A condo board, a small owner or anyone who wants to buy the hardware and run it on their own software is not the buyer described here. Chargie’s pages describe the full service and not a software-only tier.

Pricing

Chargie does not publish its own fees. What its turnkey services page does state is the money flow: the owner or manager sets the station price in the Chargie platform, free as an amenity or at a premium, and Chargie collects payments from drivers and distributes them to the owner. The same page says local rebates can cover up to 100 percent of installation costs, so ask which programs apply to your property and who files for them. Nothing on it says whether the property buys the hardware, pays a monthly fee, shares revenue or some mix. Ask which of those it is. Then ask for the hardware price per port at 32 and 48 amps, the installation estimate after a site assessment, the software fee per port per month, the transaction fee per session or per kWh, the cost of the operations center coverage, the revenue share if any, and the contract term. Ask separately what the partner DC fast charger costs to add, since a fast charger is a different electrical project from a row of Level 2 ports.

Integrations

Chargie names no property management integrations on its site and the database records none. Its multifamily page lists exportable data among the platform features. Resident payment runs through the Chargie app, which means the charging charge never reaches your property management system unless someone moves it there. Ask whether a per-resident usage file can be exported and in what format, whether a charge can post to your ledger through a connector, and whether access in the app can be driven by your rent roll so a move-out closes the resident’s charging account without the site team touching it. The EV charging vendor list shows that few vendors in the category name a PMS integration at all, so this is a demo question for most of them, not only for Chargie.

Limitations and questions to ask

Load management is the first thing to ask about. Chargie’s hardware pages describe cloud-based load management that keeps stations within a configured load allowance, so the question is how far it stretches. Ask how many 48-amp ports the platform will run on a given service size, what happens at peak when every port is occupied, and whether the answer is a load-management setting or an electrical upgrade. On the operations center, ask what 24/7/365 means in practice: whether it is monitoring, remote reset, or dispatch, what the response time commitment is, and who rolls the truck. Ask what the resident sees in the app when a port is out, how idle time is charged, and how a disputed session is refunded. Ask for the property in the client list closest to yours in age and garage type, and for the number of ports it runs on what service.

Alternatives

The vendor list linked above compares every vendor in the category with the same facts. The closest match on the turnkey institutional model is SWTCH Energy, which adds an as-a-service monthly payment covering the electrical upgrades and sells its load management as a named product, SWTCH Control. If the garage has no reliable Wi-Fi, Xeal sells a turnkey install built around chargers that run offline, with a 100 percent uptime guarantee. Every other ev charging for multifamily vendor is set side by side on the ChargePoint alternatives page.

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