Battery Charging at key locations around the facility where electric vehicles operate.

This type of charging has the advantage to:

• maintain vehicle batteries without adding personnel - operator responsibility to charge his / her vehicle 
• unproductive transportation time is kept to a minimum 
• highbred batteries allow replenishment charging for short periods without detrimental effect on battery life cycle. This can actually increase the life cycle of such batteries  

Alternatively a central battery charging location can be setup to actually maintain the battery itself, in that batteries can be charged, filled, maintained, washed, and changed with appropriate handling and safety methods. 

This charge station method has the following disadvantages: