I’m an entrepreneur based in LA and recently moved from a house with a Tesla charger to an apartment in WeHo without a charging station.
I’ve realized there’s a large gap for fast charging in the West LA area. There’s only one Supercharger in WeHo (plans to build a second but unclear on timeline).
I’m curious what the viability is to set up a new fast charging station. I’m still in the research phase (talking EV Box to get a better understanding of startup costs etc) but curious if anyone here has first hand experience.
This area is very underserved - many apartments tons of Tesla & EVs.
From a ROI point having multiple slower chargers is probably better. Within a city people hardly fast charge normally (or do they in the states? European here. Within cities it’s mostly L2 at 2x11kw , but many such Stations) Maybe 50-75kw ones at supermarkets but the proper DC chargers are mostly along highways. In your map there is a highway , but I guess it would only be interesting those passing there. Mostly people will rely on slow chargers and as others stated intial costs are very high compared to L2 while you cannot charge that much more compared to L2
I fully agree with you, but reality seems to prove us both wrong.
Last year, Tesla started putting 250 kW chargers at city malls in Denmark, often quite far from the motorway. They have been a huge success, and some of them have already been expanded to double size because they were congested so often.
The question is if this is just a temporary symptom, caused by too few AC charging options, or if it is the actual endgame we are seeing.
In Austria it doesn’t work that well (mainly due to pricing probably) . Superchargers mainly hogged by old model S (which probably free charging ?)
Depends on location probably. Know of some here in Austria that are hardly visited despite open. But some others have customers. Location nevertheless is very important. My main point was - for the price of a 350kw charger you can probably build 50 L2 chargers spread across the town/city. So risky to build only very few chargers within a town. The highway there might help