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Literally any restaurant or shopping center will install a charging station in a heartbeat since it means an opportunity for a captive audience. They already ha
by ethagknight 9y ago
Literally any restaurant or shopping center will install a charging station in a heartbeat since it means an opportunity for a captive audience. They already have the space and the power supply, just need a reason to want to bother. My group is installing 2 spaces this week in one of our properties in downtown Memphis as an incentive to all our Tesla-driving office tenant execs. And we aren't doing it for free; charging for a power fill up is a new potential (small) profit center for us, and we will gladly install another dozen if and when We need more (edits: to clean up language)
- Clubber 9y agoYes, I suspect they will be as pervasive as vending machines or pay phones 30 years ago. The biggest trick is faster charging.
- petra 9y ago>> charging for a power fill up is a new potential (small) profit center for us, Is that profit potential large enough for financiers to offer you the install for free for all/share of the profits ?
- ethagknight 9y agoFrom a real estate business perspective, it's a drop in the bucket so we don't really care about the revenue. It's real value is providing an amenity to our tenants, which has real traction with certain tenants.. again, the tesla driving execs. But to answer your specific question, I do not know, probably. I think we (300,00sf office tower) buy electricty at a cheaper rate than residential rates, so we have a small potential arbitrage without the customer caring. HOWEVER, fast forward to a not-so-distant future where majority of tenants demand/request a charge, now we are talking real money.