✨ Businesses That Can Benefit The Most From Selling Energy for EVs

Do you own or manage a commercial property?

As the EV industry continues with its incredible growth, setting up a charging station is one of the easiest business decisions you will ever make.

You could be profiting not only from your own visitors…but from anyone that happens to be nearby and wants to charge their electric vehicle. 

For people travelling, running errands all day, or cars with limited range, a quick top-up can be a lifesaver - and with Killswitch, you are free to choose your price.

From our experience, a wide variety of businesses won’t miss a beat by adopting a charging station, and we will list most of them in this blog post. All of them have the potential to turn a profit from this one-time-investment in mere months. Even a single month is not unheard of if you’re in a busy area.

Hospitality

Hotels, resorts, and guest houses

“Do you know where is the closest EV charger in the area?”

This is an increasingly common question - and “here” is the only correct answer for a good host. Driving miles away on a low battery to search for the closest charging station is not anyone’s idea of a relaxing vacation.

Remove the worry of where guests can charge their EVs when staying at your hotel. 

Providing this kind of amenity is easy, and it comes with many hidden benefits. You will be a step ahead of your competition, and can proudly display that your guests can charge their cars on booking sites.

Anyone who just completed a long road trip and wants to make sure their car is fully charged for their next adventure will be quick to pay you, but you can also give this away as a feature for your premium guests.

Retail

Shops, retail parks, and shopping malls

In the same time that it takes to enjoy a meal, or go on a shopping spree, your visitors can also recharge their car battery. 

This is not an exaggeration - rapid chargers can charge an electric car to 80% in just 30 minutes!

Your employees will also love you for being able to plug in at work. If you own a car fleet, you can be way more efficient with your routes because there will be no need to take detours to gas stations. This compounding effect of consistent, daily savings over multiple cars can turn into a significant figure at the end of the year.

Parking Lots

Parking lots and parking garages

Everything we mentioned up to this point IS a version of a parking lot or a garage. The benefits ring doubly true, but on a bigger scale.

As the owner of a big, sprawling parking lot, you have more incentive (and more power) in this transition from fuel to electric cars. Your garages will get less dirty, thus saving on cleaning costs.

By investing in EV chargers and a robust, simple-to-use payment system, you can receive payment for two services at once.

Gas Stations

Traditional fuelling stations

Having an EV charging service at every traditional gas station sounds like a no-brainer.

Western Europe is well on its way to replacing petrol stations with charging stations in the next 10 years.

But in the US, the reality is much different.

Charging electric vehicles is a passive task where you are free to do anything for a brief period. A gas station can be a well-run, clean facility with good food - just look at Marché, the franchise of European gas station restaurants.

If you’re a proactive gas station owner, your brain is now filling up with ideas to feed and entertain your EV-owning guests. 

There is a lot of money to be made.

Ready to start?

Killswitch QR Payment system for EV Charging Stations

If you already have a parking lot, nothing needs to change about your business for you to implement a charging station and add an extra revenue stream to your bottom line.

And much more important that the additional revenue you will generate, you will be providing the convenience and piece of mind of "charging everywhere" to your customers.

The transition to electric cars is happening faster than expected, so now is the time to jump on the bandwagon and start selling energy to EV owners. By doing this, you can not only turn a profit but also help to promote sustainable transportation.

Start small and build up your business as demand grows! 

Killswitch is an QR code Payment System for EV charging stations that gives you total control over your sales price, charging duration and other parameters - all configured online from your Killswitch dashboard. Tuhs the installation process is simple and requires no special expertise, so you can install the whole system yourself with the help of an electrician.

Learn more about Killswitch here and create your free account to start implementing your EV charging sales strategy today.