Title says it all! Anyone do this acting as a individual civilian? Kinda like vending machines or whatever, might be easy to install a couple chargers in a couple locations (for 3-5k I would expect) and then profit?
Is this profitable? Any personal anecdotes or experiences?
We (Denmark) have quite a few business and private people who set up level 2 chargers and make them publicly available, at a cost that’s either static or based on current utility prices plus a mark up.
Generally I think they’re profitable, but it’s a long term ROI; depending on mark-up (which would depend on local availability, and location) ROI is probably reached at 5-14000kWh, so roughly 450 to 13000 hours of charge time, based on $1200-2000 for the box and installation.
How long that ROI would be in real time would of course depend on actual utilization.
There are of course also the sly business’, like a tourist attraction where the best parking spots are reserved for EV charging and they charge ~$0.8/hr on a 7.4kW outlet :p bet they’re making bank.