At Wattsy we design our own recharging stations in France. 🇫🇷

To guarantee the safety of our customers, we ensure the reliability and conformity of our products. To do this, we carry out a series of rigorous tests on our products. Laboratories in France are also responsible for testing and qualifying them against all the applicable French and European technical standards. These tests are varied and cover aspects as diverse as temperature rise, wear and tear, connectivity and behaviour in the event of abnormal use.

However, for practical and safety reasons, it is not always possible or simple to have electric vehicles available to test our charging points in laboratories or on our premises. To carry out certain tests, we use specialised tools to simulate the behaviour of an electric vehicle.

So you might as well avoid having to run extension leads from the 4th floor to the car park!

Simulating an electric vehicle in the laboratory

Some devices are designed to recreate all the conditions of a conventional recharging cycle and carry out our tests in complete safety.

It simulates the connection of the vehicle to the charging point, the correct activation of the charging points (the actuator, in the jargon) and the correct triggering of the charge. You can modify the power parameters and measure the main charging parameters. It’s also a way of checking that all the communication protocols between the chargepoint and the car are working properly (because yes, you can’t hear it, but your chargepoint is talking to your car…).

Last but not least, this method can be used to simulate a number of anomalies: by creating fault scenarios (overload, short-circuit, insulation fault), you can ensure that the terminal’s various safety mechanisms work as expected (lucky you!).

At Wattsy, we use the ‘EVSE PCE-EVSE 310’ model from PCE Instruments, which gives full satisfaction and also allows regular checks to be carried out on charging points that have already been installed.