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I have a parking space, and I take care of everything in the parking lot. Fortunately, the parking lot is located on the edge of a first-tier city and can handle it on my own.

In the early days of operating the parking lot, the people who came to park were basically a group of familiar taxi drivers. After all, the parking fee in the urban area is too expensive, and parking on the side of the road may be fined, so you have to park a little farther. My parking lot is not expensive, and there are several restaurants and bathrooms nearby, and they are happy to use it as a transit point for rest.

Perhaps it is the word of mouth of that group of ride-hailing drivers that mine can hold 50 cars in the parking lot, which can basically be full at mealtime.

At that time, I had the highest parking income, but this kind of happiness didn't last long.

Two new charging stations have been built near my parking lot, which are not large in scale, but they do take away a lot of pure electric car owners.

(photo Source: Pixabay) I just noticed that more and more taxi drivers are choosing pure electric ride-hailing. It is learned from their mouth that the benefits of online car-hailing are comparable to those of taxis. Taxis cost about 200 yuan a day, and the online car-hailing platform takes a percentage of each order.

However, after the rise of online ride-hailing, taxis pick up passengers entirely by luck, the acceptance rate of online ride-hailing is higher, and the use time is relatively free. In order to ensure that they can get out of the car when they want to get out of the car, they would rather spend more than 100,000 yuan on their own to buy a pure electric car with lower cost and unlimited number and traffic restrictions.

At this point, the idea of investing in a charging pile flashed through my mind. My parking lot is larger, wouldn't it be to maximize my own interests if part of the area is used for pure electric car charging?

Just do it! Anyway, my savings are quite considerable, so what if the project falls into my hands? how many ten years are there in my life?

Do not know, the upfront input cost can be bought to look up to U8 and gas stations are different, as long as parking spaces and power supply and other corresponding conditions, individuals are also allowed to build charging pile stations.

I have learned that a lot of preparations are needed before the construction of the charging pile site, such as site planning, site qualification filing, charging equipment and so on. There is no problem with the site, the charging equipment can go directly to the charging operator, but it is not easy to get the station record and power supply conditions.

(photo Source: Pixabay) I need to put the project on record with the NDRC, confirm the address and specific planning of the project, and show my business license, feasibility study report and other materials. After obtaining the record certificate, I have to go to the power supply bureau to apply for power supply, show the power engineering design, plant planning map and other documents, wait for the power supply company to determine the power supply plan before the power access.

Here, I don't actually spend much money, just spend more time on communication, but I know that then it's time to really spend money.

Before buying equipment, I need to figure out that only a few charging posts are needed in the parking lot to ensure that I can get more benefits at the minimum cost. According to my observation, most of the people who come to recharge near the parking lot are car-hailing owners, and there are a lot of people, but they have a wide range of charging time, so it is not necessary to install charging piles in order to meet the charging potential needed during the peak period.

According to the 2022 White Paper on charging behavior of Chinese Electric vehicle users released by the China charging Alliance, 72% of users prefer 120kW and above high-power charging piles, and users recognize well-known charging operators.

Considering all the actual conditions, I plan to build four 120kW DC fast charging two-gun charging piles in the parking lot. After all, I am a person with land, do not need to join the charging operator, but in the form of a joint venture with the charging operator, the charger provides charging pile equipment, which saves a sum of equipment cost.

(photo Source: Pixabay) however, the whole set of power equipment in the charging station, such as cables, wires, transformers, charging equipment installation, etc., cost me a lot of money. Among them, the gearbox is a 1250KVA box transformer, the total cost is as high as 500000 yuan, I also choose a more expensive copper transformer, rather than a cheaper aluminum transformer, even if the transformer life, I can still sell copper products in exchange for income.

I spent nearly 200000 yuan on cables, wires, high and low voltage construction, and the construction of supporting facilities such as toilets and lounges.

So far, I have invested 700000 yuan in charging piles, and I have specially set aside 50, 000 yuan for later site publicity and maintenance. fortunately, I do not have to buy four charging piles, otherwise it would be equivalent to spending money on U8 in the early stage.

Can you get your money back within a year? Don't think about it. Here comes the key question. When can I get my 700000 yuan back?

Assuming that each charging gun operates at full capacity for four hours a day, it can charge 120kWh per hour, and the service charge is 0.50 yuan per kilowatt-hour. The daily income is 4 × 0.5 × 120 × 80001920 yuan, and the annual income is 700800 yuan.

As for subsidies and taxes and fees, the policy is to give 0.1 yuan / kW operation subsidy, this part of a year can subsidize about 140000 yuan, taxes and fees only need to pay 13% of the actual sales value-added tax, equivalent to a year net income of about 750000 yuan.

Of course, this only exists under ideal circumstances, and it is impossible to recover the cost in more than a year.

DC charging piles will cause power loss, the loss rate is about 5%, and due to the form of joint venture with charging operators, the platform will extract 60% of the total revenue. In other words, the income I can get every year is only about 250000 yuan, which means it will take at least three years to recharge the project.

It doesn't seem bad to think about it this way, and I still have the basic business of parking fees. It may only take more than two years to earn it back.

After months of twists and turns, my charging station is finally open.

(photo Source: Pixabay) at first, each charging pile could indeed operate at full capacity for three to four hours. I watched the income of more than 1,000 yuan a day, which really relieved a lot of pre-startup anxiety.

Since the beginning of summer, the electricity price of the charging station has begun to rise. In the peak period after noon, the price of one kilowatt-hour electricity has reached 1.85 yuan per kilowatt-hour, which is equivalent to more than 2 yuan after adding the service charge.

Charging in public charging piles requires the payment of two fees, including electricity price and service charge. Among them, the electricity price is unified, I do not have the right to change.

(photo Source: Pixabay) A ride-hailing driver who often runs long distances complained to me that he basically recharged once every two days, but he had to pay about 15 yuan more than before, and he spent more than 300 yuan in a month. Coupled with the fact that there was no time-limited discount in the previous period, the difference in the cost of using the car became even more obvious.

Although the energy replenishment speed of pure electric vehicles is slower than that of fuel-fueled cars, the advantage lies in the lower cost of energy replenishment, and drivers of new energy grid ride-hailing are also willing to use energy replenishment time to accumulate wealth, but the rising electricity charges make them wonder if it was the right decision to choose pure electric vehicles as ride-hailing tools.

Of course, they can only doubt that they should continue to pay the charging fee. After all, there is no better choice at the moment. I can understand the change in their mood, but it's not up to me. After all, summer is the peak of electricity consumption, and prices may come down after summer.

I sit in an air-conditioned lounge every day, complacent with rising earnings and official figures for rising sales of new energy vehicles, but the sense of security didn't last long: several more charging stations were built near the parking lot, and I was vaguely aware that a storm might be coming.

(image source: Pixabay) when there are more charging stations, the most direct way to capture a limited number of users is to "volume". There are already four or five charging stations nearby that extend the free parking time for charging users, and even set a service charge of less than 10 cents per degree.

Kill the enemy 1000 self-loss 800, this trick is really useful, my daily income is nearly 60% less than the peak, not to mention profit, no loss is already a miracle.

Being pressed step by step by my competitors, I had no choice but to join this "price war" without steaming steamed buns.

In order to attract as many pure electric car owners as possible to recharge, I have introduced corresponding concessions, such as free parking for three hours on a single charge, reducing service fees during the night trough, and even cooperating with surrounding merchants to provide exclusive coupons for charging users, etc., do have a certain effect. Just looking at the gradual recovery of daily income, I do not feel too happy, only tired.

Lasting less than half a month, the price war was jointly reported by a number of charging operators around, attracting the attention of the relevant departments. This no-winner price war ends with "launching a price war such as promotion below cost will be punished."

(photo Source: Pixabay) in the next few days, car owners began to ask me why I cancelled the discount. After I told him the reason for the matter, his face did not show the anger, anger and helplessness I expected. Instead, it was much calmer.

"for people like me who drive every day, in fact, I care more about whether the charging power of the charging pile is solid and whether the charging time has decreased. I do want to buy wool when I see the discount, but I am more worried about the possible tricks after enjoying the discount. The last time I went to another charging station, I experienced the discount of 'charging for one penny'. As a result, I only charged about 60% of the electricity in a few hours. I finally spent an extra hour on parking, and I earned it back by running several trains in this time. "

Yes, the wool comes from the sheep, and the revenue of the operators is reduced. In addition to forcing away some competitors, it may also affect the quality of services, affect the mentality of users, and the whole ecosystem will be devastated. Only the price is transparent, users are more comfortable to use, and the competition between charging operators will be fairer.

My daily earnings began to level off, but they were only about 70% of their peak, and the payback time was longer than the original estimate of three and a half years.

In the end, it took me four and a half years to get back my money only by relying on the charging pile, and then all I got was pure profit.

It is reported that at most 5% of investors will be able to return capital within two years, and it is expected to account for 30% within five years, and the vast majority of rechargeable piles will take more than five years.

Rational analysis, my return speed is fast, the main reason is that the time, the place and the people are in harmony. The surrounding environment is suitable for large-scale car-hailing owners to rest, and the parking lot is their own, which virtually saves them a high land rental fee.

(photo Source: Pixabay) A friend shared with me that there is a charging pile project on the Internet. You don't have to wait three or four years after the investment, and you can get your money back in more than a year, and you don't have to worry about anything, just wait and make money.

According to the statement of joining the charging pile project, if you spend more than 100,000 yuan to become their agent, you can also use the 120kW charging pile for four hours a day, and you can get a profit of 240yuan for each kilowatt-hour service charge, and investors can get 70% of the service fee, with a net income of 168yuan per day. If you claim ten charging piles, you will earn 1680 yuan a day, and if you do nothing every month, you can make a net income of more than 50,000 yuan, which is more than 600,000 yuan a year.

I can see the trick at first glance: the so-called franchise fee only includes the charging pile, and the transformers, cables, wires, supporting equipment and site rent which are the most expensive in the early stage are not included. This part is the bulk of the investment. The charging pile that can lie down and win by charging the franchise fee does not exist, and it is impossible to survive the early stage without enough resources on hand.

It is undeniable that the development of new energy vehicles in China is indeed very fast, and its market sales and growth rate have ranked first in the world for eight consecutive years. As a key part of the new energy vehicle system, the charging pile does seem to be a project worth investing in. In fact, some investors have reached the pinnacle of their lives through the charging pile project.

(photo Source: Pixabay) but I would also like to remind you that there are still unprofitable investors betting on the charging pile project, and this proportion is quite a large number. To be honest, the charging pile project now requires a more forward-looking vision from investors. There are two reasons.

First, the number of private charging piles is gradually increasing. According to the official data released by the National Energy Administration, China's charging infrastructure has reached 5.2 million in 2022, of which 3.4 million charging piles belong to private charging piles.

Private car owners use their own charging piles, so there is no need to choose public charging piles. In other words, public charging piles can hardly earn the money of private car owners, and investors need to consider the life trajectory of new energy ride-hailing drivers when choosing the location of charging.

Second, more and more new energy car companies begin to expand the energy supplement system. Users will have a better charging experience on their own brands than third-party charging piles, such as overcharging piles, changing power stations and other equipment, but this is somewhat repulsive to other brands.

From the perspective of the current domestic car market, the mainstream pure electric car companies have chosen to create their own energy supplement system. You can choose to join a car company's charging pile, but after completion, the users you serve are basically limited to the same brand models in the urban area.

Once the brand does not have enough rich customers in the urban area, it means that the time to return the cost has been extended, and the charging piles of car companies should be more cautious.

(photo Source: Pixabay) there may be a day when gas stations will be completely replaced by charging piles, but at the moment, charging piles are not as attractive as they thought. The rise of private charging piles and professional recharge equipment has greatly reduced the living space of third-party charging piles.

Therefore, the market has risks, investment should be cautious.

Disclaimer: the information or opinions expressed in this article do not constitute investment advice to anyone; if there are similarities, it is a pure coincidence.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: ID:dianchetong233. The author: Eagle.

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