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About ForgeAsset

Hi — I'm Arun. ForgeAsset is a side project I've been grinding on nights and weekends from California, where I've lived for a long time.

I'm an ardent Tesla fan and a long-time TSLA shareholder. When Tesla launched the Supercharger for Business program — letting property owners and LLCs actually purchase and own their own Supercharger sites — I spent several months reading every public source I could find. The configurator math, AFDC station data, PG&E BEV-2-S tariff structure, IRS bonus-depreciation rules, §469 material-participation guidance, LCFS credit market, BPP tax treatment, permitting timelines, the works. I was trying to answer one question for myself: what does the actual net look like after everything Tesla's official tool doesn't show you?

The answer turned out to be a scenario-modeling engine with hundreds of inputs, a tax engine, sensitivity analysis, and a lever lab for what-if scenarios. I built it for me first. Then I figured the EV community — and especially the Supercharger community — might want the same view, since Tesla's configurator is a sales funnel and there isn't an independent equivalent on the buyer side.

A few things to be clear about

  • I'm not a licensed financial adviser, CPA, attorney, or broker. ForgeAsset is a modeling tool, not personalized advice. Use it to ask better questions of the professionals who are.
  • I'm not affiliated with Tesla, not endorsed by Tesla, and not a reseller of any Tesla product. This is an independent buyer-side tool. ForgeAsset operates no chargers, sells no installations, and has no stake in any transaction modeled here — unlike proformas supplied by charging developers and operators, whose numbers come from the party that profits if you sign.
  • Coverage spans forty-nine states and the District of Columbia — California, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Arizona, Texas, Virginia, Illinois, Michigan, Tennessee, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Montana, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Alabama, Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Louisiana, Nevada, Washington, Ohio, Utah, New Hampshire, Kentucky, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Colorado, Maryland, Arkansas, Mississippi, West Virginia, Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Delaware, and Washington, DC. I'd rather model each state's filed tariffs rigorously than wave hands at fifty utilities. Outside these territories, the waitlist tells me where to expand next.
  • Default assumptions are calibrated more conservatively than Tesla's configurator on purpose. Tesla's tool optimizes for a sales message; this one optimizes for buyer-side diligence. You can move every slider yourself and see what your scenario looks like under your own facts.
  • This isn't VC-backed and it isn't a startup yet. It's a side project a Tesla owner built on weekends for the community.

Reach out — feedback, edge cases I missed, and “your number for X is wrong because Y” emails are all welcome. I post as @AmpedUpTesla_ on X; ForgeAsset itself posts from @Forge_Asset.

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