Plugging In Wisely
What Every Parking Operator, Property Owner, and Municipal Manager Needs to Know Before Partnering with an EV Charging Company
2026 Edition, Revised August 2026 · first published 12 June 2026
Electric vehicle charging is widely procured as a hardware purchase and priced accordingly. This paper argues that the decisive asset in a charging partnership is the software platform that controls pricing, access, load management, data, and integrations, and that hardware is a seven-to-ten-year consumable by comparison.…