The economics of hosting a charging station on your property
Two models, one decision. What revenue share and ownership each pay back, and how to tell which one suits your site.
If you own parking near steady traffic, you have already got the hardest input to a charging business. The question is which model to use.
Model one: revenue share
We fund the hardware, installation and operations. You provide the bay and the power connection, and take a share of every unit sold. Zero capital outlay, zero operational responsibility, and a monthly settlement.
A moderately busy two-bay DC site sells 900 to 1,400 units a month. At a host share of ₹2.50 to ₹3.50 per unit, that is ₹2,600 to ₹4,900 a month for parking that was previously earning nothing. It will not transform a balance sheet, but it costs nothing and it brings people onto the property.
Model two: ownership
You buy the hardware — roughly ₹9 to ₹14 lakh for a two-gun 60 kW DC installation including civil work and the power sanction — and set your own tariff. We run the software, payments, support and maintenance for a service fee, and settle collections monthly.
The same 1,200 units a month at a ₹6 per unit gross margin returns about ₹72,000, less roughly ₹18,000 in service fee, electricity demand charges and maintenance. Call it ₹50,000 net. Payback lands between 26 and 34 months on a well-sited bay.
The variable that decides it
Utilisation. Everything above assumes the bay is genuinely busy. A site with strong dwell time — a mall, a highway stop, a hotel — supports ownership economics. A site that fills only at weekends does not, and revenue share is the sensible choice there.
What actually kills sites
Not demand. Power sanction. Enhancing a connection from 25 kVA to 100 kVA can take four to twelve weeks depending on the discom and the local transformer. Start that process before you sign anything, because it sets your real timeline.
The second-order return
Hotels report bookings from EV owners specifically because a charger is listed. Malls report longer dwell. Restaurants report a table filled for forty minutes that would otherwise have been a takeaway. For many hosts that is worth more than the per-unit share.