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Build vs Buy — EV Charging Infrastructure
Weigh SaaS subscriptions against a custom build for EV Charging Infrastructure — see the multi-year total cost of ownership and which path wins.
What this means for EV Charging Infrastructure
- Station utilization is the dominant unit-economics variable — most public chargers run well below the 15-20% utilization required for site-level profitability, and the playbook to lift utilization is poorly understood.
- Charger uptime is a brand-and-trust crisis — third-party studies have found 20-30% of US public DC fast chargers non-functional at any given moment, and drivers remember the broken experience long after the working ones.
- Grid impact and demand-charge exposure can flip a profitable site to a loss-making one — a single high-power session at the wrong moment can dominate the monthly demand charge.
Where it pays to act
- AI-driven site selection — demand modeling that combines traffic data, EV registrations, dwell-time potential, and grid capacity to pick high-utilization sites.
- Predictive maintenance on charger hardware — failure prediction from telemetry to lift uptime above the NEVI 95% bar.
Adjust the inputs to match your EV Charging Infrastructure context.
Total cost of ownership
SaaS total (3yr)
₹19.9 L
Custom build total
₹21.8 L
Difference (cheaper to buy)
₹1.89 L
Breakeven
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What this means
A hybrid path fits best.
For EV Charging Infrastructure, the gap is ₹1.89 L over 3 years — close enough that a hybrid approach (buy core, build differentiating layers) often wins.
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