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My new business venture: Off grid EV solar charging…

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This is sort of a joke at this point, but as more people adopt EV’s how knows:
I have a very large (too large for my actual usage, (but I overbuild everything) solar array at my off grid location that is far from gas stations and recharging locations. I recently helped a hiker recharge his Tesla from my system which almost recharged his batts completely at no cost to me. I was happy to help him. I also helped a camper recharge his Bluetti device.

I have a lot of cleared land for more panels, which got me thinking.

I think this might be interesting niche business opportunity (like airbnb for EV charging) for remote locations for which you could charge a premium price. If EV’s really catch on in the coming years for longer travel… like a network of off grid recharging ‘hotspots’ with starlink satellite for internet browsing while you wait.

Who’s in with me?
 
mvonw said:
This is sort of a joke at this point, but as more people adopt EV’s how knows:
I have a very large (too large for my actual usage, (but I overbuild everything) solar array at my off grid location that is far from gas stations and recharging locations. I recently helped a hiker recharge his Tesla from my system which almost recharged his batts completely at no cost to me. I was happy to help him. I also helped a camper recharge his Bluetti device.

I have a lot of cleared land for more panels, which got me thinking.

I think this might be interesting niche business opportunity (like airbnb for EV charging) for remote locations for which you could charge a premium price. If EV’s really catch on in the coming years for longer travel… like a network of off grid recharging ‘hotspots’ with starlink satellite for internet browsing while you wait.

Who’s in with me?
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You have a great idea. I was once down in the Keys and saw a guy (who everyone knows comes to all the fishing spots) and he had a trailer full of lures, fishing stuff, and live bait in small refrigerators. He would come to all the different spots and people would buy from him so they did not have to leave their spot. I think this is genius. You would need to create an app. Then, you could create a business model where people In other towns would sign up with you to do the same thing. Advertise the heck out of it and open locations in rural areas where charging does not happen due to lack of places. I know someone who started a business renting out pickup trucks to help move, pick up appliances, etc., and was in multiple cities with people who volunteered their truck for the payments...Not really a stupid idea here.
 
You must be from some sunny state to even dream about this. Or have very flexible clientele.
 
On a somewhat related note, we have a guest house my wife rents out for 1-2 weeks at a time. With the market share growth of EVs, I know it's not going to be long before someone wants to recharge their EV every day as they go out and about. That house doesn't have solar, and at $0.28/Kwh, we're going to have to figure out a charging scheme using data from the Emporia device.
 
You could franchise this and have mobile charging stations that would be positioned in areas where charging stations were hard to find. If you could get listed on the map phone apps with current locations that would be a plus. Of course there would be a premium for the service.
 
Madcodger said:
On a somewhat related note, we have a guest house my wife rents out for 1-2 weeks at a time. With the market share growth of EVs, I know it's not going to be long before someone wants to recharge their EV every day as they go out and about. That house doesn't have solar, and at $0.28/Kwh, we're going to have to figure out a charging scheme using data from the Emporia device.
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I would just go ahead and add a charging connector now and advertise it with the rental. You might want some kind of local kWh or $ display as well. A typical day is likely less than $7 in electricity, so you might be able to just do a flat rate adder to rental of $70-80/week.
 
@Shimmy Good point. I think we should raise our prices as it is, just to deal with the aggravation of having people on the property, but this seems to satisfy the boss's inner inn keeper fantasies, so I just try to smile and deal with it all. Beats owning a blasted B&B, which she brought up a few years ago before I went into open rebellion at that idea. And it does generate a fair amount of cash for property improvements, which makes it bearable. We're building another place a few miles away and haven't decided whether to keep this place when that one's done. The older I get, the more I base almost every decision on the amount of aggravation it's going to create.
 
Totally out of hand here .
We can do a whole website on "b n b charges etc,( probably already is ?)

Move on.
 
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