Plug-Side Chat: What Makes a Charging Site Compelling?

From News Coulomb.

In a recent video, Kyle @OutofSpecReviews interviewed Arcady, CEO and Founder of Freewire, and I wanted to respond to a point that they made during the video. According to Arcady, Freewire’s business model is to install a single charger and expand in response to demand. The problem with that model, in my opinion, is it ignores many factors that drive actual site demand. With only two active posts (one CCS and one CHAdeMO), many EV owners will avoid the site on trips, and it is impossible to track the lost demand for the site by people who do not queue up to use an occupied site.

For this video, I want to discuss the factors that actually make a site compelling, and while location can be important, it is only a small factor in driving the overall site demand.