acarney
Active Member
Much cheaper lot just a little East in Rufus, OR.
Looks to be very easy access to the interstate and not THAT far detour when traveling HWY 97… $329k.
Very interesting idea, but I don’t see any guarantee that Tesla would deploy a supercharger there or allow the franchising of superchargers. If you could guarantee deployment I could potentially see a “Oregon Friends of Tesla” group or something purchasing land and getting superchargers deployed. Maybe setup the group in conjunction with an owners group and solicit financial contributions from owners… Possibly the end goal could be to sell the location in a few years once established to someone that plans to build some kind of income generating business (restaurant, convenience store, coffee stand, etc). Ideally you could provide data on amount of cars visiting the site, average time there, and maybe even some generalized demographic information about the owners.
If we truly believe EV adoption is the way of the future (I suspect everyone here and willing to go into an endeavor like this does), than you could also expand that to CCS based quick chargers and almost guarantee a customer base in the next five years or so. If successfully selling the property the group could roll any profits back into supporting superchargers by hosting more remote locations that might get forgotten by Tesla… or maybe five years down the road it could go more to funding an “adopt a supercharger” type situation where trash service is added to locations, etc.
Obviously it would be great is Tesla took this all on, but if any owners group was going to do something like this, Tesla owners seem like the ones to figure it out… all hedges on ensuring a supercharger build though, otherwise you’re just buying an empty lot…
100 1st St, Rufus, OR 97050 | Zillow
Zestimate® Home Value: $0. 100 1st St, Rufus, OR. It contains 0 bedroom and 0 bathroom. The Rent Zestimate for this home is $1,099/mo, which has increased by $1,099/mo in the last 30 days.
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Looks to be very easy access to the interstate and not THAT far detour when traveling HWY 97… $329k.
Very interesting idea, but I don’t see any guarantee that Tesla would deploy a supercharger there or allow the franchising of superchargers. If you could guarantee deployment I could potentially see a “Oregon Friends of Tesla” group or something purchasing land and getting superchargers deployed. Maybe setup the group in conjunction with an owners group and solicit financial contributions from owners… Possibly the end goal could be to sell the location in a few years once established to someone that plans to build some kind of income generating business (restaurant, convenience store, coffee stand, etc). Ideally you could provide data on amount of cars visiting the site, average time there, and maybe even some generalized demographic information about the owners.
If we truly believe EV adoption is the way of the future (I suspect everyone here and willing to go into an endeavor like this does), than you could also expand that to CCS based quick chargers and almost guarantee a customer base in the next five years or so. If successfully selling the property the group could roll any profits back into supporting superchargers by hosting more remote locations that might get forgotten by Tesla… or maybe five years down the road it could go more to funding an “adopt a supercharger” type situation where trash service is added to locations, etc.
Obviously it would be great is Tesla took this all on, but if any owners group was going to do something like this, Tesla owners seem like the ones to figure it out… all hedges on ensuring a supercharger build though, otherwise you’re just buying an empty lot…