Hosting an EV charging station: what site owners should actually ask

If you own a fuel station, a resort, or a plot of land near a busy route, there's a fair chance a charging company has already knocked — or will soon. EV charging needs well-placed land, and India has far more good sites than good information about how these deals work. So here is the model, explained plainly, from a company that intends to be one of the people knocking.

How a charging partnership actually works

A charge-point operator (CPO) like us leases a corner of your site, builds a charging station on it at its own cost, and operates it — hardware, electricity, software, maintenance, customer support. You provide the space; the operator provides everything else. In return, you're paid. The real differences between networks come down to how you're paid and what happens when things don't go to plan.

Fixed rent versus revenue share

Most agreements in the market fall into one of two shapes. In a revenue-share deal, your income is a percentage of what the chargers earn — which means in the early years, while EV traffic is still growing, your share can be very small. In a fixed-rent deal, you're paid a set amount every month regardless of how busy the chargers were. We chose to offer fixed rent, because we think the person providing the land shouldn't be the one carrying the utilisation risk. Whichever network you talk to, make sure you know exactly which shape you're being offered — and what the number is in writing, not in conversation.

What makes a site genuinely attractive

Not every plot near a road makes a good charging site. The things that matter, in roughly the order operators check them:

• Position on the route itself — drivers won't take a meaningful detour to charge
• Nearby reasons to stop: food, restrooms, shade, safety for families
• Dependable grid supply, since a charger that can't draw power earns nobody anything
• Room for vehicles to enter, charge for 30–60 minutes, and leave without blocking your existing business

If your site already has people pausing at it every day, you're holding the thing this industry needs most.

Questions to ask any charging network — including us

• Who pays for the hardware, installation, and power connection? (With us: we do, all of it.)
• Who operates, maintains, and insures the station day to day? (Us again — your involvement is the space.)
• How exactly am I paid, how much, and what happens in a slow month? (Our answer: a fixed rent, unchanged by charger earnings — exact figures are in our catalogue and your first meeting.)
• Who pays the electricity bill? (The operator should. The chargers run on the operator's own commercial connection, not your meter.)
• What happens at the end of the agreement, and who restores the site?

Any network worth partnering with will answer all five without flinching. If you get vagueness, that's your answer.

Why we don't print our numbers on this page

Rental figures and agreement details deserve a proper conversation about your specific site, not a one-size-fits-all webpage — so we share them accurately, in our catalogue and face to face. If you'd like both, the Partner With Us page has a short form; a founder reads every enquiry personally.