Some corporate sponsor provides free life-time charging as a form of community involvement and advertising

Solution Details:

Pain Point:  High Total Cost of plug-in Ownership

General Implementation Strategy:  Free electricity!

Primary Actors:  Third Party Connector, Business

Other solutions to this pain point:

• Highlight reduced fuel, maintenance, and servicing costs compared to ICE baseline
• Utility provides free electricity in exchange for charge 'black out' times
• Free vehicle electricity for the first x residents who adopt plug-ins
• Utility provides free home charge spot installation
• Provide regional home charging infrastructure rebate
• Free home installation of charger provided by local business
• Utility provides free 240V charger upgrade in exchange for black-out charge times
• Utility finances home charge spot installation service through small addition to monthly utility bills
• No-fee for updating registration, free emissions testing, etc.
• Provide insurance discount
• CO2 tax and rebate system for vehicles
• Provide free OnStar services in plug-in
• Enable V1G or V2G on vehicles
• Enable V1G or V2G on utility system
• Utility provided reduced rate package for plug-in users
• Utility gives TOU or real-time rates
• Utility gives very low electricity rates to plug-ins at off-peak times

Other solutions that fall into this general strategy:

• Utility provides free electricity in exchange for charge 'black out' times
• Free vehicle electricity for the first x residents who adopt plug-ins

Other solutions for this primary actor:

• All plug-in owners get a 'concierge'
• Minimize transaction costs by encouraging third-party businesses to manage the transaction cost affiliated with charging
• Enable V1G or V2G on utility system

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