> So why are these companies still in business if it's profitable to have non-working charging stations? Pretty sure the government pays them the cost of insta

> So why are these companies still in business if it's profitable to have non-working charging stations? Pretty sure the government pays them the cost of installing the charger + profit. So they're just in the business of installing chargers. While I don't think anybody pays you to just build gas stations so you'll need to operate it to recover your initial investment.