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Charging E-bikes for a campus with 32x e-bikes

Safely away from buildings

24th Ocober 2025 – 

Situation: This campus already had a fleet of existing electric scooters with a max range of 4 miles. However, this wasn’t sufficient to cover the 10-mile-wide site and required frequent charging within buildings. 

In summary:

  1. E-scooters with 4-mile range, failed distances.
  2. Policy change: no battery charging in-or-near buildings.
  3. Identified multiple, underutilised analogue cycle shelters
  4. Needed: Secure, safe, outdoor charging & e-bikes.

Solution:
After conducting an audit of the site and its topography and existing vehicles, Solarcycle presented the case for

1. A fleet of Pedal-assisted (pedelec) e-bikes (better battery range & larger, safer and more efficient wheels). We receommended the E28.x from Estarli as it is British made, and maintenance-free, with an auto gearbox and belt drive.

2. Retrofitting some of the existing, under-utlised, cycle shelters with 4x Off-grid solar-powered e-bike charger Totems. We also specified an internal secure SIM & VPN data connection provides private data for reporting.

Results:
The new network of Solar powered E-bike chargers supports multiple brands of e-bikes including the specified Estarli E28.x – mneaing staff and visitors are able to charge up in multiple locations, at any time of night thanks to the available energy stored within the chargers.

Charging per month was configured to suit the local topography, average E-bike battery sizes and likely frequency of use, based on average sessions from across our network. We always over-comensate, to allow for rainy days which we did this time, but the results ar extraordinary. We exceeded the energy requirements by 4× for the project and provided up to 1380km of carbonless travel onsite in the first month. This equaltes to 276x e-bike journeys of 5km. Plus, Remote monitoring, and software updates ensure the chargers are optimal and the lifecycle of components is maximised.

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