SWTCH Energy: Features, Pricing, Integrations & AI Visibility

SWTCH Energy sells turnkey EV charging for multifamily, from design through installation to maintenance, on an as-a-service model where the owner pays one monthly amount for hardware, installation and any electrical upgrades. The software is the SWTCH Portal, which handles access control, rate structures, loitering enforcement, billing and reporting, and SWTCH Control, a load-management layer that makes what the vendor calls second-by-second adjustments so a fixed electrical service can feed more ports. The chargers are OCPP and vendor-agnostic, from Level 2 to DC fast plus smart outlets. Its multifamily page cites 2,500 chargers across 136 Greystar properties in Washington State, which is the largest single deployment claim in the multifamily EV charging category. 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 and commercial facilities, and the client names on SWTCH’s site, Greystar, CBRE, Colliers and FirstService, describe the buyer. This is a portfolio decision for an owner or manager who wants one vendor to carry the whole project, including the electrical work, and who would rather pay monthly than fund the garage from capital. SWTCH’s own pitch is that property managers have enough on their plate as it is, and the as-a-service model is built to take the project off the site team entirely.

A smaller owner with one garage and a capital budget is not the buyer described on these pages. The pricing model rewards scale, and the case study SWTCH leads with, 21 chargers added at one site while avoiding $24,000 of electrical upgrades, is a load-management story rather than a small-owner story.

Pricing

Figures are not published. The model is as-a-service: hardware, installation and electrical upgrades bundled into one predictable monthly payment, with the owner setting the rates residents pay, and SWTCH says it reviews the property’s electricity bill to set a cost-recovery rate. Ask for the monthly payment per port and per site, the term, what the payment covers when a charger fails, whether the resident revenue offsets the payment or flows to the property separately, and who owns the hardware on the last day of the contract. Then compare the total over the term against buying the same ports outright from a hardware-agnostic vendor, because the bundle is convenient at signing and expensive to unwind.

Integrations

No property management system appears on SWTCH’s integrations page, so the database records none. What the page does name is HappyCo, Flash Parking, VTS, iStall, WEX, ReWire Energy, Weeve, Curo, BC Hydro, REVS and Amperage Capital, a mix of parking, payments, energy and inspection partners. That list says SWTCH expects to sit next to the parking and building systems in your stack, not next to the rent ledger. Ask whether a resident’s charging charges can post to your PMS through a connector or a file, which systems that has been done for, and whether the Portal can read your rent roll to grant and revoke access at move-in and move-out, because otherwise the site team keeps a second list of who is allowed to charge.

Limitations and questions to ask

Load management is the first question. Ask what a resident gets at 7 a.m. after a night on a full garage, since the second-by-second adjustments that spare the transformer also slow each car at peak. Ask how the loitering enforcement in the Portal works, what the overstay fee is, and who fields the complaint. On support, SWTCH sells SWTCH Care and Care+ as 24/7/365 support and O&M plans; ask which plan the monthly payment includes, what the response time commitment is, and who rolls the truck. On the as-a-service model, ask what happens to the chargers and to the resident accounts if you sell the property mid-term, and whether the agreement transfers to the buyer. On the OCPP claim, ask whether the chargers can be moved to another network if you leave, and what that costs.

Alternatives

The full list of EV charging vendors compares all twelve with the same facts. The closest match on the turnkey model is Chargie, which also names Greystar among its clients and runs a 24/7/365 network operations center. If the reason for looking at SWTCH is the monthly payment rather than the software, 3V Infrastructure goes further and keeps the chargers on its own balance sheet with no CapEx or OpEx to the property.

AI visibility

The AI Shortlist Index will measure EV charging for multifamily when a prompt set for the category is approved, and the SWTCH Energy row will appear here from that edition on.