Guides
How-to guides for the people who run AV fleet depots.
One guide per everyday question, by role. Real tariffs, real equipment limits, and the arithmetic worked out.
Depot managers
The yard: which car charges when, and in what order, so every car is ready by morning.
- AV fleet detailing: what to ask a vendor before a weekly contractCrew capacity, wash water, safety sheets, biohazard cleanup, sensor-safe washing and insurance. A vendor who answers all six in writing is ready for a depot.
- How to build an AV fleet charging schedule that has every car ready by morningWork backward from the morning: the energy each car needs back, the hours in your cheap window and the power your site can draw. Then order the cars so none waits behind a full one.
Depot energy managers
The power bill: rate windows, demand charges and the tariff behind them.
- Time-of-use rates for AV fleet charging: how to read your tariffOn some rates the same kWh costs nearly five times as much at 6 p.m. as at 6 a.m. Read the hours, the prices and the fine print before you set a depot's charging window.
- Demand charges for AV fleet charging, explained with the mathOne busy 15 minutes can set a robotaxi depot's power bill for the whole month. Here is how the charge is measured, what it costs on real tariffs and how a depot keeps it down.
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