I’m an entrepreneur based in LA and recently moved from a house with a Tesla charger to an apartment in WeHo without a charging station.

I’ve realized there’s a large gap for fast charging in the West LA area. There’s only one Supercharger in WeHo (plans to build a second but unclear on timeline).

I’m curious what the viability is to set up a new fast charging station. I’m still in the research phase (talking EV Box to get a better understanding of startup costs etc) but curious if anyone here has first hand experience.

This area is very underserved - many apartments tons of Tesla & EVs.

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  • ScuffedBalataBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Frankly, Vandalism is a cause for a good fraction of the outages in urban areas.

    And putting a charger in Hollywood of all places (which isn’t the “safest” neighborhood by modern American suburb standards) is… challenging.

    Imagine spending $400k on a fancy new 5-station charging setup only to have the cables cut for $23 worth of copper the next evening.