Although the development of new energy vehicles has become a major trend, investing in charging stations is a good choice, but the cost of building charging stations is not small. Overall, the approximate cost of investing in a charging station with 10 fast charging piles that can accommodate 20 new energy vehicles charging at the same time, including a full set of electrical equipment, site rental, construction of supporting facilities, etc., is about 850,000 - 1 million yuan.

Taking a city as an example, the specific project costs involved are as follows.

1. Charging pile

The market price of a very common 120kW double-gun charging pile in the market is around 50,000 RMB. One charging post has two charging guns. If you invest in 20 parking spaces, you need to buy 10 charging piles, the total price is about 500,000 yuan.

2. Site rental cost

The annual rent of a fixed commercial parking space is about 3,000 RMB. Although 20 cars are invested, three parking spaces need to be set aside to build equipment such as box transformers. Then there are 23 parking spaces overall, with an annual rent of $69,000.

Of course, if you can rent the whole lot, the whole lot will be a little cheaper, about 800 square meters for about $30,000. However, these locations are usually remote. After all, places with whole lots for rent will not be in the city center.

3. Electrical equipment

This includes "transformers, cables, wires" and so on, with transformers costing between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Generally, the price of aluminum transformer with 20 years of life is about tens of thousands of dollars, while the price of copper transformer with 30 years of life is more than 100,000 yuan.

Investment in 10 charging piles need to install 800 kV transformer, plus the cost of a full set of electrical equipment such as cables, wires, etc. is about 250,000 yuan.

4. Supporting settings

To establish charging stations, rest rooms, mobile toilets, on-site vehicle automatic identification doors, on-site monitoring, etc. must also be set up at a total cost of about 30,000 yuan.

In addition, some funds should be reserved for construction, opening, and later operation and maintenance.

In total, not counting the construction, opening, and in the case of post-operation and maintenance costs, the investment cost reaches about 90,000 yuan, plus the construction cost, the conservative cost reaches 1 million yuan. As for the specific investment amount, it must be discussed according to the local situation. After all, the price difference between different regions is still obvious. In addition, if you have a property, you will save a fortune.

How long does it take to become profitable?

Charging stations charge a service fee, and generally charge a fee of 0.4-0.8 yuan per kWh. Each charging post serves 6 cars per day, and the utilization rate of charging posts is 50%, which means about 60 cars per day to charge to calculate, each car charging about 80 degrees, 0.5 yuan / degree service fee, each car service fee of about 40 yuan, a day of net profit 40 * 60 = 2,400 yuan calculation, a month of about 72,000 yuan a month, about 864,000 yuan a year. In addition, taking into account the depreciation of equipment and other circumstances, this calculation will be about 2 years to pay back the capital.


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