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> The economics of a charging business are awful.

Ish. I mean one thing the charging business has going for it is that after the initial investment the ongoing investment is basically 0. You don't have weekly fuel shipments or any real ongoing maintenance costs.

You also don't see immigrants all over charging stations because they are mostly unmanned. Usually placed in parking lots of retail stores.



> I mean one thing the charging business has going for it is that after the initial investment the ongoing investment is basically 0

That's not actually correct. You need to pay for reserved power in the grid, which can be significant amount regardless if you are using that power or not. So installing big DCFC charger where nobody is going to use it will eat you up on fees for reserved power.


Any insights to what the reserved rates are? Nothing really came up on google. I could find some commercial power rates which tended to be lower than residential rates, but I assumed that's not accurate since these things will eat a lot more power than most businesses would.


> You also don't see immigrants all over charging stations because they are mostly unmanned. Usually placed in parking lots of retail stores

tf is this supposed to mean


Mostly just responding to the OP

> There's a reason you don't see immigrants from all over the world coming to the US to open charging stations the way you saw them opening gas stations.

My guess is what they meant by this is the very visible minimarts on gas stations often manned by (presumed) immigrants.




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