I spent the better part of six years building and running the North American business of a charging company. Product, sales, marketing, hiring, finance, logistics, and a public listing along the way. Most of what I know about charging, I learned by getting it wrong first, or by watching a customer get it wrong with my equipment.
None of that knowledge was secret. It was just scattered: across vendor brochures that were optimistic by design, utility tariff books nobody reads until the first bill, and forum arguments where the loudest person had never owned a site.
What this site is
The Charge Sheet is the thing I wanted on day one, for both sides of the plug. Guides and free tools for charging at home, and for charging as a business: what happens between the car and the charger, what it costs in a garage or across a 20-stall site, and how to get it right. Every assumption is visible.
And yes, the home side is personal. I run a Tesla Wall Connector on its own circuit, with a NEMA outlet as backup. I have opinions about both.
Why it's free
It is not a lead magnet. There is no sales team behind it, nothing to sign up for, and nothing I get paid to recommend.
The goal is simple: more people who understand charging well enough to run it themselves, and a few more who decide driving electric makes sense. If the numbers say it doesn't for you, the site will say that too.
What this blog is for
Two things.
- Essays. Longer pieces on the parts of charging that trip people up: demand charges, site control, financing, reliability, and the gap between what a charger costs and what a charging site costs.
- The week in charging. A short, opinionated screen of the news that actually matters if you own a site or are thinking about building one. Not every press release. The three or four things worth your time, and what I would do about them.
What I would ask of you
If something here is wrong, tell me. If a number looks off, check the method page and then tell me anyway. The whole point is to be the source people trust because it admits what it does not know.
And if it saves you from one bad site, or one bad panel upgrade, send it to the next person who is about to sign a lease or buy their first EV.
