Monetise a home charging point?

[BoRED S2upid]

As it says basically. Home charging point on my drive not in use. Any way to make money from it?

[WelshRich]

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/may/22/elec...

[sjg]

https://co-charger.com/

Or if it’s somewhere people would want to park (close to a station or something to visit) then JustPark have filters for EV charging now.

[ReverendCounter]

Sounds like a great idea for someone who wants an EV but hasn't got easy access to the infrastructure. If you can rent out your driveway parking space I can't see how its anybody's business who you allow to access your power. Go for it, I say.

[BoRED S2upid]

Thanks guys. Plenty of room on the drive while someone’s car charges.

[jollysoutherner]

Have ours listed on zap-map. Someone stopped by today £0.45 kWh, never going to get rich but helps someone out.

We are outside Cambridge, imagine if you are in a central spot where parking is expensive you could charge decent money for parking and charging combined.

[AlunJ]

https://www.squareupcharging.co.uk/

[TheDrownedApe]

lots on Zap map and i've used a couple previously. all depends on the owner and their communication

[mids]

VW group also think it's a good idea. They've launched an app for it in France : https://get.shargy.fr/

[TheRainMaker]

It's not a bad idea, but I wouldn't do it.

[OutInTheShed]

ISTM there is scope for a whole industry of small-scale parking and charging businesses.
There are loads of lightly used spaces around, bits of ground used for storing tat.
There must be a big number of lock-up garages in the UK which never see a car?

On the domestic level, maybe it should be encouraged, like the 'rent a room' tax free lodger idea.

If people go OTT, there could be planning, tax and neighbour nuisance issues.

Like Uber, Airb'n'b etc, the trick is to make it work well for the providers and users.

[TheRainMaker]

You wouldn’t make any money, not enough to make it worth while anyway.

What could you make a day? Maybe £4-5 per charger if you were lucky.

[RazerSauber]

According to that Guardian article, you'd make 5p/kwh. Assuming that's taxed at the usual 20%, that would be 4p. Alright, this was published in 2021 by the looks of it.

Assuming a Leaf is a fairly average capacity for an average car, that's 62kwh. That's £2.48 you'd make if they had a full charge. Now, if someone turns up with a Hummer EV wanting 200kwh out of your house then that's a mind blowing £8 you'd make.

I'm sure if you lived near a train station or something and had a steady stream of people wanting to use your charger then the small amounts would soon add up but for the vast majority of people? I can't see it being much benefit.

[Southerner]

Isn't it the case that home charging makes most sense on a specialist tariff, usually whereby nighttime charging is cheap but daytime charging is pricey? Does that put a bit of a spanner in the works?

[LeoR]

Sharing chargers would be a lovely way to enable home charging for terraced houses. If a handful of houses had chargers and pavement trenches installed for wires, it would start to solve the "I can never park outside my house" problem with EV charging in terraces. You could even make each road a co-op - allowing your neighbours access would allow you access to their charger if you happened to end up outside their house.

Of course, local politics will likely get in the way. Councils aren't very forward thinking at the best of times.