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 BEV2-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.
• Phase 1 covers California / PG&E territory only. I'd rather model one utility rigorously than wave hands at fifty. If you're outside PG&E, 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. (X handle going up soon.)

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