PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide electricity charging equipment for electric vehicles, which enables the rate of power used by a user to be collected at low cost and further has a load leveling function.
SOLUTION: This charging equipment for electric vehicles includes an operation terminal and a control unit. The operation terminal has a power supply means which has one or more plug socket ports for supplying an electric vehicle with power; an information input means which enables input of charging order information; an information display means; and a bill recovering means which collects the rate from the user. The control unit has a memory and a processor, and stores charging order information inputted from the information input means, computes charging reservation information including the charging start time C
1 , the charging finishing time C
2 , and the charging rate, separately for each plug socket port, and controls the current application by the power supply means, based on the charging reservation information. The charging order information includes a charging time A, and the control unit computes the charging start time C
1 , the charging finishing time C
2 , and the charging rate, based on the charging time A.
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