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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    • artfellig@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I said it might be of interest, because the interview is about charging stations in the same area mentioned by OP, and how many of them were not working, because of compatibility challenges, etc. Thought that could be useful information to someone wanting to establish new chargers.

    • ScuffedBalata@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 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.