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90% yours
Of what drivers pay
$8 a charger
Per month. That is the fee.
Down? 60s
We know before a driver does
No contract
Leave any time. Keep your hardware.

EV Initiative operates EV chargers for the people who own them. Plug in any OCPP charger. We handle drivers, payments, payouts and alerts. You keep 90%.

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    See the Host Program for buildings

    Passive income

    How a charger pays you.

    A charger is a parking space that earns. Who gets paid what depends on who owns the hardware and who owns the ground it sits on. Three answers, and one that did not exist before.

    You own both

    Free to run.
    90% of gross.

    Your charger, your property. No subscription, no per-charger fee, no listing fee. Ever.

    • You keep 90% of what a guest pays, before card processing. We absorb that out of our 10%.
    • Your own charging is always free.
    • Your price, your hours, and a free list of up to a hundred people.
    Home hosting →
    You own the building

    $8 a charger.
    90% of net.

    Hotels, retail, workplaces, multifamily. You bought the hardware. We operate the network.

    • Eight dollars per charger per month. That is the whole fee.
    • 90% of net, after processing and any electricity reimbursement recorded for the site.
    • One payout account per property, even when one person runs four of them.
    Buildings →
    You put it in the ground

    Margin, then
    every session.

    Two income streams. One ends at the invoice. The other starts there.

    • Buy at MSRP, sell at your price. We take no cut of your markup.
    • 2 to 3% of paid session revenue on every charger you deploy, for as long as it runs.
    • It comes out of our 10%, never your customer's 90%. Using you costs them nothing.
    • The rate is stamped the day the charger is deployed and never goes down.
    • Your numbers update in real time, session by session. Nothing to invoice, nothing to wait for.
    Installers →
    You run a fleet

    Not income.
    Money you keep.

    Most fleets are not running a charging program. They are running an expense program that happens to involve electricity.

    • Sessions bill to the company as they happen. No receipts, no claims, no reimbursement cycle.
    • Home charging split at the plug, not estimated with a stipend that overpays half your drivers.
    • A depot sitting idle overnight can host the public like any other commercial site.
    Fleets →

    The one that did not exist

    You own a plug in a building you do not run.

    A parking upgrade bought before construction is an asset that sits dark while its owner is at work, and a neighbour queues for the one shared unit forty feet away. That was never a hardware shortage. There has simply never been a way for the person who owns the plug to let someone use it and be paid for it.

    Now there is. Open your charger at your price, during your hours, with a free list for the people you like. You never pay to use it yourself. The building gains capacity it did not fund and stops fielding complaints about the shared plug.

    Free.
    To run your own plug, wherever it sits
    90% gross
    Of what a neighbour pays you
    See the building running it →

    Why it is passive.

    The money moves itself.

    Your share transfers to your own bank through Stripe. No invoicing, no chasing, no reconciling, no monthly request.

    You see the real number.

    Type a rate and the screen shows what you keep per kWh after your electricity estimate, live, before you save. That is the number that decides whether hosting is worth it.

    Rebates stay yours.

    Every incentive, grant and tax credit stays with you. Not routed through us, not shared. It is in the contract rather than a policy that can change.

    Nobody calls you.

    A charger goes quiet and we know inside a minute. Most fixes are a remote reset from a desk. A stranded session settles itself and bills the last reading it received.

    Special programs

    Two more ways the same kilowatt pays.

    A charger earns from the session. In some places it earns a second time from the carbon that session displaces. Both run on the same metered data, so neither needs anything from you.

    The Host Program

    Open your charger.
    Keep 90%.

    The terms that decide what you keep, written down rather than assumed. You set the price and the hours. Your own charging is free. Every rebate, grant and tax credit stays with you. Leave whenever you like and take your hardware and your data with you.

    Read the program →     Canadian Carbon Credit Program

    Paid for the
    carbon, too.

    Electricity delivered to a car is a transportation fuel under Canada's Clean Fuel Regulations, and it earns credits. Only a registered charging network operator can claim them. We are that operator, so a connected Canadian charger earns on every kilowatt it moves. Free sessions count, because credits come from energy moved rather than money collected.

    How it works in Canada →

    Eligibility depends on where the charger is and what kind of site it sits on. The platform checks both and switches on what you qualify for. See both programs.

    Your price

    What it costs you.

    Buildings and hotels
    $8

    Per charger, per month. $80 a year.

    Keep 90% of net. No term. Rebates stay yours.

    Buildings →
    Residential
    Free

    No subscription. No fee. Ever.

    Keep 90% of what guests pay. Your charging stays free.

    Home →
    Installers
    Earn 2 to 3%

    Ongoing. From every session, on every charger you deploy.

    Free to join. Hardware at MSRP. Your margin is yours.

    Installers →
    Fleets
    $20 + $18

    Base, plus per charger, monthly.

    Drivers never see a bill. No per-session fee.

    Fleets →

    Every annual is ten months. Load management, $4 per managed charger, when your service needs it.

    Hardware

    Best price on equipment.

    Autel, at MSRP, pre-commissioned to the network before it ships. Drop-shipped to your site. Installers pay the same and keep their margin.

    Shop hardwareGet a quote
    AC Ultra
    Single port

    Wall, 25 ft cable

    $3,130
    View on the shop →
    AC Ultra
    Dual port

    Wall, 25 ft cable

    $5,510
    View on the shop →
    DC Compact
    40 kW

    Wall or pedestal, commissioned

    From $19,075
    View on the shop →

    Home wallbox and pedestal sets on the shop. Prices in USD, shipping and tax at checkout.

    Operations

    What "we run them" means.

    Three jobs somebody has to do every day. On most networks that somebody works for you.

    One console. Every charger.

    Live status per connector, revenue by site and period, and the reason when something is wrong. Most fixes are a reset from this screen.

    See operations →

    We watch it.

    A charger goes quiet, we know inside a minute. You hear before a driver does.

    We settle it.

    Money lands in your bank. Split done. Record attached. Nobody invoices anyone.

    We fix it.

    Most problems are a reset. From a desk, in two minutes. Not a site visit in half a day.

    Running since 2018

    One of the first charging networks. Still running.

    Thousands of sessions on one platform, from a single home plug to a hotel group, across North America and abroad. Owners name a price. Drivers pay in eleven languages. The money lands in the owner's account.

    A condo building

    Twenty-two plugs.
    One network.

    Twenty-two chargers in one garage. Twenty-one of them private plugs, bought as parking upgrades, now on the same network as the visitor unit. A resident who owns a plug names a price, a neighbour charges, and the owner is paid.

    Nobody in the building runs it. Pricing, payment and payout happen on the platform, and every owner sees their own numbers.

    22
    Chargers on one network
    21
    Private plugs, open to earn
    90%
    Of every session to the owner
    Holiday Inn and Hilton

    Four hotels.
    One console.

    Twelve chargers across four properties, one owner, all of them in use. Live status, pricing and revenue for every site on one login, with one payout.

    The front desk never learns what OCPP is. Guests plug in and pay. The owner opens the console for the numbers, not because something needs them.

    12
    Chargers earning
    4
    Properties
    1
    Login, one payout
    2018
    Live since. One of the first, and still running
    11
    Languages in the driver app, the point of sale
    Anywhere
    Stripe pays out. North America and abroad
    Our own sites

    Experience-Driven Charging by EV Initiative, in collaboration with Tesla. eviinfra.com

    EVII™

    Ask her anything about your network.

    • Which chargers went quiet in the last hour?
    • What did we earn last month, net?
    • Reset stall 3. Proposed. Confirm?

    Eleven languages. Nothing changes without your yes.

    EVII, the EV Initiative assistant

    Quick answers.

    Does it work with chargers we already have?

    Yes. Any OCPP charger, which is most units sold in the last five years.

    How do I get paid?

    Automatically, to your bank, through Stripe. You keep 90%. No invoices.

    What happens when a charger breaks?

    We know first, we tell you, and most fixes are a remote reset.

    How much do I actually keep?

    If you own the charger and the property, 90% of what a guest pays, gross, and it costs nothing to run. If you own a building, 90% of net and $8 per charger per month. Your own charging is always free.

    Is this really passive, or is it a second job?

    You set a price and hours once. After that the money transfers to your bank through Stripe with no invoicing, we watch the hardware, and most faults are a remote reset. The one screen worth looking at shows what you keep per kWh after electricity.

    Can a resident earn on a plug in a building they do not run?

    Yes, and that model did not exist before. The resident opens their own charger at their price and hours, keeps 90%, and never pays to use it themselves. The building gains capacity it did not fund.

    Is this a referral program?

    No. You buy hardware at MSRP, sell it at your price, install it, and earn on every session those chargers run.

    Will this trip our electrical service?

    Not with load management. It shares the current across the chargers instead of letting them all draw at once.

    How long is the contract?

    There is none. Stop paying, keep your hardware, take your data.

    Who keeps the grants and rebates?

    You do. It is in the contract. We capture the metered data those programs ask for.

    Get started.

    Four questions. A person replies within one business day. Homeowners: skip this, open the app.