EVwire brief: Roam Energy is actively deploying Supercharger for Business sites across the United States, including a new four-stall station in Prattville, Alabama and an earlier site in Statesville, North Carolina. Both locations are live and part of Tesla's global Supercharger network.
As per co-founder Brad Hinkley, the Prattville site required extending the parking lot to fit the four stalls plus ADA-compliant access. Hinkley highlighted the v3.5 power block and Tesla Power Supply Unit (PSU) hardware, which Tesla says ships as a pre-assembled unit to cut installation costs by 15% or more.
As per Hinkley:
The Statesville, North Carolina site went live roughly two months earlier. Hinkley posted a photo of the completed station with the caption "Well done team Roam."
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Roam Energy is a Tesla Certified Installer that handles the full deployment pipeline, from site acquisition and validation, to design and engineering, construction and activation, and ongoing network operations and maintenance. The company says it has deployed more than 1,000 chargers across high-traffic locations.
Context:
Tesla's Supercharger for Business program lets property owners, investors, and charge point operators purchase and install official Tesla Supercharger hardware on their own land. The host owns the physical chargers. Tesla supplies the hardware, runs the software, handles driver support, and guarantees maintenance with a 97% uptime commitment. A broken stall is Tesla's problem to fix.
Once a site goes live, it appears in the Tesla app and in-car navigation with the same visibility and service standards as Tesla-owned stations. Hosts set their own per-kilowatt-hour pricing, with options for congestion fees and time-of-use rates. Tesla collects a fixed fee per kWh from the revenue.
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Some notable Supercharger for Business installations include:
Little General’s Superchargers at a Columbia, MO travel center.
ChargedEV Hubs’ 8-stall Superchargers in Norcross, Georgia
EVIO Charging and Powerup EV Solutions’ first Supercharger for Business site in New York
Suncoast Charging’s newest conservation-themed chargers in Wesley Chapel, Florida
Tesla has also rolled out a Supercharger for Business Calculator that shows exactly how much a business would have to invest for their own Supercharger sites.
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