returns
Breakeven utilization: the bar at every retail price
At $0.45 an eight-stall site on PG&E BEV-2 needs about 309 kWh per stall per day for NPV to reach zero. At $0.60 it needs 158. The full ladder, step by step.
7 min read
site selection
4 articles filed under site-selection.
costs
The most expensive place in America to run a Supercharger
Oahu and Maui rank first and second of 96 filed tariffs. Energy is 34 to 38 cents, flat, all day — then the demand charge arrives. One site, priced in dollars.
6 min read
methodology
NEVI funding for a privately owned site: how a grant enters the model
A grant is not a discount. It arrives mid-year, it can reduce the loan or the depreciable basis or both, and each of those choices changes the returns differently — here is how the cash flow actually treats it.
5 min read
costs
Cheap power, thin coverage: reading the Supercharger economics map like a site scout
What the national economics map shows when effective electricity cost and Supercharger density are read together: the cheapest priced territories carry single-digit station counts, and the densest territory pays close to double the cheapest.
4 min read