Tesla Supercharger for Business: what you buy, what you build, what Tesla runs

For most of the Supercharger network's history a property owner had one way to get Superchargers: apply to host a Tesla-owned site and wait to be selected. In September 2025 Tesla added a second. Under Supercharger for Business, a business buys Supercharger posts for its own property, hires its own installer to build the site, sets its own prices, and keeps the charging revenue, while Tesla operates and services the equipment. This guide covers how the program works, what the owner is responsible for building, and where a contractor fits.

How the program works

1. 01Order. The owner completes Tesla's order form. Tesla's program page lists a minimum purchase of four charging posts.
2. 02Install. The owner hires its preferred installer, and a Tesla design engineer is available to guide the project.
3. 03Manage. A Tesla portal shows utilization, pricing, and financials, and Tesla handles any equipment servicing.

What Tesla provides

• White-labeled V4 Supercharger posts and cabinets, with the same hardware, software, and pricing controls Tesla uses on its own network.
• Network operations, preventive maintenance, and driver support, backed by what Tesla describes as a 97 percent uptime guarantee.
• A listing on Tesla's in-car map, so Tesla drivers navigating with Trip Planner can be routed to the site, with live stall availability.
• Compatibility with all EVs, according to Tesla, so the site serves more than Tesla drivers.

What the owner builds

Everything outside the posts and cabinets is the owner's project, and on a fast-charging site that is most of the work. A typical scope:

• Utility service application, load letter, and coordination of the transformer location and primary feed across the property.
• Switchgear, metering, and the concrete pads for the transformer and the Supercharger cabinets.
• Trenching or overhead raceway from the cabinets to the posts. Tesla lists cabinet-to-post cable distances of up to 100 meters, which gives the site plan room to keep equipment away from the stalls.
• Post foundations, bollards, wheel stops, striping, and signage.
• Accessible charging spaces designed to the California Building Code's EV charging accessibility requirements, and fire department access.
• Site lighting, and a solar canopy over the stalls when the owner wants shade and generation on the same footprint.
• Building, electrical, and any zoning permits for all of the above.

Sizing the electrical service

Tesla's V4 cabinet delivers up to 1,200 kW of DC power shared across eight posts, and each post can deliver up to 500 kW to a passenger vehicle. Tesla states that the cabinet system typically needs less than 1 MW across eight posts to deliver full power to cars 99 percent of the time. In practice a four- to eight-post site is a utility project measured in hundreds of kilowatts up to about a megawatt, usually with a new transformer, and the utility application is the longest item on the schedule. Start the service conversation before the hardware order is final.

Hosting versus buying

Incentives

The federal alternative fuel refueling property credit (Section 30C) ended for property placed in service after June 30, 2026. Utility and state programs remain the main support: LADWP's Commercial EV Charger Rebate Program paid up to $125,000 per DC fast charger in disadvantaged communities in its most recent round, subject to its rules on public access and networking, with the next enrollment listed for October 2026, and the California Energy Commission's CALeVIP funds DC fast charging in some regions. Check each program's eligibility rules before the hardware is ordered.

Where GreenSource fits

Tesla's program asks the owner to bring an installer. GreenSource is a licensed California contractor that engineers and builds the owner's side of the site: the utility application, switchgear and pads, trenching and conduit, foundations, accessible stalls, lighting, permits, and a solar canopy over the stalls when the owner wants one. We coordinate the layout with Tesla's design engineer. We do not sell Tesla hardware; the owner orders the posts from Tesla.