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ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem

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The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'. For ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question ...

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·2021-07-22
The filling station can be anywhere in the Open carpark, hotel, shopping malls and etc. When the car comes to a stop, I am sure that the charging stations will be there. Once it is fully adopted, all the Infrastructure can be planned out. It is a matter of time that the Chargepoint will be an imminent force since it will create the 1st mover advantage. All the best to those who believe in the company. Let’s fly beyond $40. Cheers 🍻
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How does the buz model. Instead of having charging station bit Software? A lot of car manufacturer has their owned software already ( appointment apps).
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It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.</p>\n<p>The optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned by<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BRK.A\">Berkshire Hathaway</a></b>(NYSE:<b><u>BRK.A</u></b>). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.</p>\n<p><b>Fill ‘Er Up</b></p>\n<p>Even<b>Tesla</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>TSLA</u></b>) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.</p>\n<p>I’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint.&nbsp;Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.</p>\n<p>ChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.</p>\n<p>But ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.</p>\n<p><b>Analysts Still Pounding Table</b></p>\n<p>ChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion.&nbsp;Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.</p>\n<p>Analysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor.&nbsp;All five analysts following CHPT as tracked by<i>TipRanks</i>still rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.</p>\n<p>As our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.</p>\n<p><b>The Bottom Line</b></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SMP\">Standard</a> Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.</p>\n<p>That’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.</p>\n<p>Our Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.</p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-22 20:51 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CHPT":"ChargePoint Holdings Inc."},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1126677827","content_text":"The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question remains unanswered. What will an electric “gas” station look like? Will you still be able to “trust your carto the man who wears the star?”\nSource: JL IMAGES / Shutterstock.com\nWe know how gasoline engines fill up. It takes just a few minutes. You can find stations everywhere. The imagination of station owners likeWawaandBuc-ee’sis bent to extending that time, pulling-in after a fill-up and going into the store.\nElectric cars take a half hour to fully charge, even with something like ChargePoint’s 480-volt “DC Fast.” With a 240-volt charger, the kind of power your clothes dryer might use, it still takes overnight. All you’re doing with household current is a top-up.\nThus,“range anxiety,” the fear that your electric can’t go onto the open road. It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.\nThe optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned byBerkshire Hathaway(NYSE:BRK.A). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.\nFill ‘Er Up\nEvenTesla(NASDAQ:TSLA) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.\nI’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint. Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.\nChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.\nBut ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.\nAnalysts Still Pounding Table\nChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion. Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.\nAnalysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor. All five analysts following CHPT as tracked byTipRanksstill rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.\nAs our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.\nThe Bottom Line\nStandard Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.\nThat’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates one will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.\nOur Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":7183761,"gmtCreate":1642350368644,"gmtModify":1642350368752,"authorId":3571138623117037,"author":{"id":3571138623117037,"idStr":"3571138623117037","authorId":3571138623117037,"name":"Werkohderkoh","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/15f00b0aef0edf959d4cceebd1513729","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":172530753,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"😊","text":"😊","html":"😊"},{"id":6970768,"gmtCreate":1639441345643,"gmtModify":1639441345643,"authorId":3570437600969291,"author":{"id":3570437600969291,"idStr":"3570437600969291","authorId":3570437600969291,"name":"The knights","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/75dcd9b9c7a6f69cb6e3d99df5c339df","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":172530753,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"[Miser][Miser]","text":"[Miser][Miser]","html":"[Miser][Miser]"},{"id":6934315,"gmtCreate":1639183936980,"gmtModify":1639183936980,"authorId":3570437600969291,"author":{"id":3570437600969291,"idStr":"3570437600969291","authorId":3570437600969291,"name":"The knights","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/75dcd9b9c7a6f69cb6e3d99df5c339df","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":172530753,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"It will take off anytime soon","text":"It will take off anytime soon","html":"It will take off anytime soon"},{"id":6922191,"gmtCreate":1639103903717,"gmtModify":1639103903717,"authorId":3570437600969291,"author":{"id":3570437600969291,"idStr":"3570437600969291","authorId":3570437600969291,"name":"The knights","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/75dcd9b9c7a6f69cb6e3d99df5c339df","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":172530753,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"[Miser]","text":"[Miser]","html":"[Miser]"},{"id":6909249,"gmtCreate":1639020703994,"gmtModify":1639020703994,"authorId":3570437600969291,"author":{"id":3570437600969291,"idStr":"3570437600969291","authorId":3570437600969291,"name":"The knights","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/75dcd9b9c7a6f69cb6e3d99df5c339df","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":172530753,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":" Be patient and buy in when low","text":" Be patient and buy in when low","html":" Be patient and buy in when low"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":172298281,"gmtCreate":1626961609643,"gmtModify":1633769351404,"author":{"id":"3575867013914101","authorId":"3575867013914101","name":"BpchuA","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dd3500e66cc249b4480fcc30d7cd6409","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3575867013914101","authorIdStr":"3575867013914101"},"htmlText":"Cool","listText":"Cool","text":"Cool","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/172298281","repostId":1126677827,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1126677827","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1626958261,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1126677827?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-22 20:51","market":"us","language":"en","title":"ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1126677827","media":"InvestorPlace","summary":"The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Hold","content":"<blockquote>\n The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n</blockquote>\n<p>For&nbsp;<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CHPT\">ChargePoint Holdings Inc.</a></b> , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question remains unanswered. What will an electric “gas” station look like? Will you still be able to “trust your carto the man who wears the star?”</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a070198e2b665b5b9db97c2f2380138a\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: JL IMAGES / <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SSTK\">Shutterstock</a>.com</p>\n<p>We know how gasoline engines fill up. It takes just a few minutes. You can find stations everywhere. The imagination of station owners likeWawaandBuc-ee’sis bent to extending that time, pulling-in after a fill-up and going into the store.</p>\n<p>Electric cars take a half hour to fully charge, even with something like ChargePoint’s 480-volt “DC Fast.” With a 240-volt charger, the kind of power your clothes dryer might use, it still takes overnight. All you’re doing with household current is a top-up.</p>\n<p>Thus,“range anxiety,”&nbsp;the fear that your electric can’t go onto the open road. It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.</p>\n<p>The optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned by<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BRK.A\">Berkshire Hathaway</a></b>(NYSE:<b><u>BRK.A</u></b>). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.</p>\n<p><b>Fill ‘Er Up</b></p>\n<p>Even<b>Tesla</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>TSLA</u></b>) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.</p>\n<p>I’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint.&nbsp;Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.</p>\n<p>ChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.</p>\n<p>But ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.</p>\n<p><b>Analysts Still Pounding Table</b></p>\n<p>ChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion.&nbsp;Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.</p>\n<p>Analysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor.&nbsp;All five analysts following CHPT as tracked by<i>TipRanks</i>still rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.</p>\n<p>As our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.</p>\n<p><b>The Bottom Line</b></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SMP\">Standard</a> Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.</p>\n<p>That’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.</p>\n<p>Our Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.</p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-22 20:51 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CHPT":"ChargePoint Holdings Inc."},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1126677827","content_text":"The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question remains unanswered. What will an electric “gas” station look like? Will you still be able to “trust your carto the man who wears the star?”\nSource: JL IMAGES / Shutterstock.com\nWe know how gasoline engines fill up. It takes just a few minutes. You can find stations everywhere. The imagination of station owners likeWawaandBuc-ee’sis bent to extending that time, pulling-in after a fill-up and going into the store.\nElectric cars take a half hour to fully charge, even with something like ChargePoint’s 480-volt “DC Fast.” With a 240-volt charger, the kind of power your clothes dryer might use, it still takes overnight. All you’re doing with household current is a top-up.\nThus,“range anxiety,” the fear that your electric can’t go onto the open road. It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.\nThe optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned byBerkshire Hathaway(NYSE:BRK.A). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.\nFill ‘Er Up\nEvenTesla(NASDAQ:TSLA) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.\nI’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint. Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.\nChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.\nBut ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.\nAnalysts Still Pounding Table\nChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion. Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.\nAnalysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor. All five analysts following CHPT as tracked byTipRanksstill rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.\nAs our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.\nThe Bottom Line\nStandard Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.\nThat’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates one will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.\nOur Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":172629387,"gmtCreate":1626959742949,"gmtModify":1633769380779,"author":{"id":"4087728163353730","authorId":"4087728163353730","name":"GreenMan123","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7102402af7cf840858ba718620b4eb3c","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4087728163353730","authorIdStr":"4087728163353730"},"htmlText":"How does the buz model. Instead of having charging station bit Software? A lot of car manufacturer has their owned software already ( appointment apps).&nbsp;","listText":"How does the buz model. 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A lot of car manufacturer has their owned software already ( appointment apps).","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/172629387","repostId":1126677827,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1126677827","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1626958261,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1126677827?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-22 20:51","market":"us","language":"en","title":"ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1126677827","media":"InvestorPlace","summary":"The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Hold","content":"<blockquote>\n The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n</blockquote>\n<p>For&nbsp;<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CHPT\">ChargePoint Holdings Inc.</a></b> , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question remains unanswered. What will an electric “gas” station look like? Will you still be able to “trust your carto the man who wears the star?”</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a070198e2b665b5b9db97c2f2380138a\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: JL IMAGES / <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SSTK\">Shutterstock</a>.com</p>\n<p>We know how gasoline engines fill up. It takes just a few minutes. You can find stations everywhere. The imagination of station owners likeWawaandBuc-ee’sis bent to extending that time, pulling-in after a fill-up and going into the store.</p>\n<p>Electric cars take a half hour to fully charge, even with something like ChargePoint’s 480-volt “DC Fast.” With a 240-volt charger, the kind of power your clothes dryer might use, it still takes overnight. All you’re doing with household current is a top-up.</p>\n<p>Thus,“range anxiety,”&nbsp;the fear that your electric can’t go onto the open road. It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.</p>\n<p>The optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned by<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BRK.A\">Berkshire Hathaway</a></b>(NYSE:<b><u>BRK.A</u></b>). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.</p>\n<p><b>Fill ‘Er Up</b></p>\n<p>Even<b>Tesla</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>TSLA</u></b>) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.</p>\n<p>I’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint.&nbsp;Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.</p>\n<p>ChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.</p>\n<p>But ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.</p>\n<p><b>Analysts Still Pounding Table</b></p>\n<p>ChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion.&nbsp;Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.</p>\n<p>Analysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor.&nbsp;All five analysts following CHPT as tracked by<i>TipRanks</i>still rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.</p>\n<p>As our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.</p>\n<p><b>The Bottom Line</b></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SMP\">Standard</a> Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.</p>\n<p>That’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.</p>\n<p>Our Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.</p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-22 20:51 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CHPT":"ChargePoint Holdings Inc."},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1126677827","content_text":"The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question remains unanswered. What will an electric “gas” station look like? Will you still be able to “trust your carto the man who wears the star?”\nSource: JL IMAGES / Shutterstock.com\nWe know how gasoline engines fill up. It takes just a few minutes. You can find stations everywhere. The imagination of station owners likeWawaandBuc-ee’sis bent to extending that time, pulling-in after a fill-up and going into the store.\nElectric cars take a half hour to fully charge, even with something like ChargePoint’s 480-volt “DC Fast.” With a 240-volt charger, the kind of power your clothes dryer might use, it still takes overnight. All you’re doing with household current is a top-up.\nThus,“range anxiety,” the fear that your electric can’t go onto the open road. It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.\nThe optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned byBerkshire Hathaway(NYSE:BRK.A). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.\nFill ‘Er Up\nEvenTesla(NASDAQ:TSLA) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.\nI’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint. Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.\nChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.\nBut ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.\nAnalysts Still Pounding Table\nChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion. Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.\nAnalysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor. All five analysts following CHPT as tracked byTipRanksstill rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.\nAs our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.\nThe Bottom Line\nStandard Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.\nThat’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates one will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.\nOur Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5296720,"gmtCreate":1626968916573,"gmtModify":1635223619041,"authorId":3574881932341088,"author":{"id":3574881932341088,"idStr":"3574881932341088","authorId":3574881932341088,"name":"46afca07","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":172629387,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>hello</u>","text":"<u>hello</u>","html":"<u>hello</u>"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":172664941,"gmtCreate":1626959601783,"gmtModify":1633769382934,"author":{"id":"4089874274729350","authorId":"4089874274729350","name":"LaiPing","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4089874274729350","authorIdStr":"4089874274729350"},"htmlText":"Like please","listText":"Like please","text":"Like please","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/172664941","repostId":1126677827,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1126677827","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1626958261,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1126677827?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-22 20:51","market":"us","language":"en","title":"ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1126677827","media":"InvestorPlace","summary":"The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Hold","content":"<blockquote>\n The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n</blockquote>\n<p>For&nbsp;<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CHPT\">ChargePoint Holdings Inc.</a></b> , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question remains unanswered. What will an electric “gas” station look like? Will you still be able to “trust your carto the man who wears the star?”</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a070198e2b665b5b9db97c2f2380138a\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: JL IMAGES / <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SSTK\">Shutterstock</a>.com</p>\n<p>We know how gasoline engines fill up. It takes just a few minutes. You can find stations everywhere. The imagination of station owners likeWawaandBuc-ee’sis bent to extending that time, pulling-in after a fill-up and going into the store.</p>\n<p>Electric cars take a half hour to fully charge, even with something like ChargePoint’s 480-volt “DC Fast.” With a 240-volt charger, the kind of power your clothes dryer might use, it still takes overnight. All you’re doing with household current is a top-up.</p>\n<p>Thus,“range anxiety,”&nbsp;the fear that your electric can’t go onto the open road. It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.</p>\n<p>The optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned by<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BRK.A\">Berkshire Hathaway</a></b>(NYSE:<b><u>BRK.A</u></b>). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.</p>\n<p><b>Fill ‘Er Up</b></p>\n<p>Even<b>Tesla</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>TSLA</u></b>) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.</p>\n<p>I’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint.&nbsp;Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.</p>\n<p>ChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.</p>\n<p>But ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.</p>\n<p><b>Analysts Still Pounding Table</b></p>\n<p>ChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion.&nbsp;Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.</p>\n<p>Analysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor.&nbsp;All five analysts following CHPT as tracked by<i>TipRanks</i>still rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.</p>\n<p>As our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.</p>\n<p><b>The Bottom Line</b></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SMP\">Standard</a> Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.</p>\n<p>That’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.</p>\n<p>Our Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.</p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-22 20:51 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CHPT":"ChargePoint Holdings Inc."},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1126677827","content_text":"The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question remains unanswered. What will an electric “gas” station look like? Will you still be able to “trust your carto the man who wears the star?”\nSource: JL IMAGES / Shutterstock.com\nWe know how gasoline engines fill up. It takes just a few minutes. You can find stations everywhere. The imagination of station owners likeWawaandBuc-ee’sis bent to extending that time, pulling-in after a fill-up and going into the store.\nElectric cars take a half hour to fully charge, even with something like ChargePoint’s 480-volt “DC Fast.” With a 240-volt charger, the kind of power your clothes dryer might use, it still takes overnight. All you’re doing with household current is a top-up.\nThus,“range anxiety,” the fear that your electric can’t go onto the open road. It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.\nThe optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned byBerkshire Hathaway(NYSE:BRK.A). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.\nFill ‘Er Up\nEvenTesla(NASDAQ:TSLA) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.\nI’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint. Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.\nChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.\nBut ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.\nAnalysts Still Pounding Table\nChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion. Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.\nAnalysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor. All five analysts following CHPT as tracked byTipRanksstill rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.\nAs our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.\nThe Bottom Line\nStandard Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.\nThat’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates one will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.\nOur Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":172666444,"gmtCreate":1626959492288,"gmtModify":1633769384813,"author":{"id":"3568893769658331","authorId":"3568893769658331","name":"Idl3mind","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/73c568907b1cd98414bc36c7c2df4f1a","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3568893769658331","authorIdStr":"3568893769658331"},"htmlText":"Like please bros&nbsp;","listText":"Like please bros&nbsp;","text":"Like please bros","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/172666444","repostId":1126677827,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1126677827","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1626958261,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1126677827?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-22 20:51","market":"us","language":"en","title":"ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1126677827","media":"InvestorPlace","summary":"The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Hold","content":"<blockquote>\n The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n</blockquote>\n<p>For&nbsp;<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CHPT\">ChargePoint Holdings Inc.</a></b> , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question remains unanswered. What will an electric “gas” station look like? Will you still be able to “trust your carto the man who wears the star?”</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a070198e2b665b5b9db97c2f2380138a\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: JL IMAGES / <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SSTK\">Shutterstock</a>.com</p>\n<p>We know how gasoline engines fill up. It takes just a few minutes. You can find stations everywhere. The imagination of station owners likeWawaandBuc-ee’sis bent to extending that time, pulling-in after a fill-up and going into the store.</p>\n<p>Electric cars take a half hour to fully charge, even with something like ChargePoint’s 480-volt “DC Fast.” With a 240-volt charger, the kind of power your clothes dryer might use, it still takes overnight. All you’re doing with household current is a top-up.</p>\n<p>Thus,“range anxiety,”&nbsp;the fear that your electric can’t go onto the open road. It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.</p>\n<p>The optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned by<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BRK.A\">Berkshire Hathaway</a></b>(NYSE:<b><u>BRK.A</u></b>). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.</p>\n<p><b>Fill ‘Er Up</b></p>\n<p>Even<b>Tesla</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>TSLA</u></b>) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.</p>\n<p>I’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint.&nbsp;Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.</p>\n<p>ChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.</p>\n<p>But ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.</p>\n<p><b>Analysts Still Pounding Table</b></p>\n<p>ChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion.&nbsp;Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.</p>\n<p>Analysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor.&nbsp;All five analysts following CHPT as tracked by<i>TipRanks</i>still rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.</p>\n<p>As our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.</p>\n<p><b>The Bottom Line</b></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SMP\">Standard</a> Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.</p>\n<p>That’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.</p>\n<p>Our Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.</p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-22 20:51 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CHPT":"ChargePoint Holdings Inc."},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1126677827","content_text":"The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question remains unanswered. What will an electric “gas” station look like? Will you still be able to “trust your carto the man who wears the star?”\nSource: JL IMAGES / Shutterstock.com\nWe know how gasoline engines fill up. It takes just a few minutes. You can find stations everywhere. The imagination of station owners likeWawaandBuc-ee’sis bent to extending that time, pulling-in after a fill-up and going into the store.\nElectric cars take a half hour to fully charge, even with something like ChargePoint’s 480-volt “DC Fast.” With a 240-volt charger, the kind of power your clothes dryer might use, it still takes overnight. All you’re doing with household current is a top-up.\nThus,“range anxiety,” the fear that your electric can’t go onto the open road. It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.\nThe optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned byBerkshire Hathaway(NYSE:BRK.A). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.\nFill ‘Er Up\nEvenTesla(NASDAQ:TSLA) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.\nI’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint. Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.\nChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.\nBut ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.\nAnalysts Still Pounding Table\nChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion. Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.\nAnalysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor. All five analysts following CHPT as tracked byTipRanksstill rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.\nAs our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.\nThe Bottom Line\nStandard Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.\nThat’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates one will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.\nOur Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":172683920,"gmtCreate":1626958767460,"gmtModify":1633769395486,"author":{"id":"3581579780416432","authorId":"3581579780416432","name":"MachineGun","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b2a731c3f57f68f2ebe7e41ebb718913","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581579780416432","authorIdStr":"3581579780416432"},"htmlText":"Like?","listText":"Like?","text":"Like?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/172683920","repostId":1126677827,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1126677827","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1626958261,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1126677827?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-22 20:51","market":"us","language":"en","title":"ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1126677827","media":"InvestorPlace","summary":"The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Hold","content":"<blockquote>\n The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n</blockquote>\n<p>For&nbsp;<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CHPT\">ChargePoint Holdings Inc.</a></b> , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question remains unanswered. What will an electric “gas” station look like? Will you still be able to “trust your carto the man who wears the star?”</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a070198e2b665b5b9db97c2f2380138a\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: JL IMAGES / <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SSTK\">Shutterstock</a>.com</p>\n<p>We know how gasoline engines fill up. It takes just a few minutes. You can find stations everywhere. The imagination of station owners likeWawaandBuc-ee’sis bent to extending that time, pulling-in after a fill-up and going into the store.</p>\n<p>Electric cars take a half hour to fully charge, even with something like ChargePoint’s 480-volt “DC Fast.” With a 240-volt charger, the kind of power your clothes dryer might use, it still takes overnight. All you’re doing with household current is a top-up.</p>\n<p>Thus,“range anxiety,”&nbsp;the fear that your electric can’t go onto the open road. It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.</p>\n<p>The optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned by<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BRK.A\">Berkshire Hathaway</a></b>(NYSE:<b><u>BRK.A</u></b>). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.</p>\n<p><b>Fill ‘Er Up</b></p>\n<p>Even<b>Tesla</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>TSLA</u></b>) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.</p>\n<p>I’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint.&nbsp;Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.</p>\n<p>ChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.</p>\n<p>But ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.</p>\n<p><b>Analysts Still Pounding Table</b></p>\n<p>ChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion.&nbsp;Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.</p>\n<p>Analysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor.&nbsp;All five analysts following CHPT as tracked by<i>TipRanks</i>still rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.</p>\n<p>As our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.</p>\n<p><b>The Bottom Line</b></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SMP\">Standard</a> Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.</p>\n<p>That’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.</p>\n<p>Our Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.</p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-22 20:51 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CHPT":"ChargePoint Holdings Inc."},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1126677827","content_text":"The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question remains unanswered. What will an electric “gas” station look like? Will you still be able to “trust your carto the man who wears the star?”\nSource: JL IMAGES / Shutterstock.com\nWe know how gasoline engines fill up. It takes just a few minutes. You can find stations everywhere. The imagination of station owners likeWawaandBuc-ee’sis bent to extending that time, pulling-in after a fill-up and going into the store.\nElectric cars take a half hour to fully charge, even with something like ChargePoint’s 480-volt “DC Fast.” With a 240-volt charger, the kind of power your clothes dryer might use, it still takes overnight. All you’re doing with household current is a top-up.\nThus,“range anxiety,” the fear that your electric can’t go onto the open road. It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.\nThe optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned byBerkshire Hathaway(NYSE:BRK.A). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.\nFill ‘Er Up\nEvenTesla(NASDAQ:TSLA) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.\nI’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint. Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.\nChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.\nBut ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.\nAnalysts Still Pounding Table\nChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion. Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.\nAnalysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor. All five analysts following CHPT as tracked byTipRanksstill rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.\nAs our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.\nThe Bottom Line\nStandard Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.\nThat’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates one will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.\nOur Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":172612800,"gmtCreate":1626958455400,"gmtModify":1633769399508,"author":{"id":"3564041372367572","authorId":"3564041372367572","name":"我会成为小富婆","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cc81530dfc76889190c0083ac7558dcb","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3564041372367572","authorIdStr":"3564041372367572"},"htmlText":"Like and comment pleasee","listText":"Like and comment pleasee","text":"Like and comment pleasee","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/172612800","repostId":1126677827,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1126677827","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1626958261,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1126677827?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-22 20:51","market":"us","language":"en","title":"ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1126677827","media":"InvestorPlace","summary":"The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Hold","content":"<blockquote>\n The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n</blockquote>\n<p>For&nbsp;<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CHPT\">ChargePoint Holdings Inc.</a></b> , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question remains unanswered. What will an electric “gas” station look like? Will you still be able to “trust your carto the man who wears the star?”</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a070198e2b665b5b9db97c2f2380138a\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">Source: JL IMAGES / <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SSTK\">Shutterstock</a>.com</p>\n<p>We know how gasoline engines fill up. It takes just a few minutes. You can find stations everywhere. The imagination of station owners likeWawaandBuc-ee’sis bent to extending that time, pulling-in after a fill-up and going into the store.</p>\n<p>Electric cars take a half hour to fully charge, even with something like ChargePoint’s 480-volt “DC Fast.” With a 240-volt charger, the kind of power your clothes dryer might use, it still takes overnight. All you’re doing with household current is a top-up.</p>\n<p>Thus,“range anxiety,”&nbsp;the fear that your electric can’t go onto the open road. It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.</p>\n<p>The optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned by<b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BRK.A\">Berkshire Hathaway</a></b>(NYSE:<b><u>BRK.A</u></b>). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.</p>\n<p><b>Fill ‘Er Up</b></p>\n<p>Even<b>Tesla</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>TSLA</u></b>) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.</p>\n<p>I’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint.&nbsp;Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.</p>\n<p>ChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.</p>\n<p>But ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.</p>\n<p><b>Analysts Still Pounding Table</b></p>\n<p>ChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion.&nbsp;Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.</p>\n<p>Analysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor.&nbsp;All five analysts following CHPT as tracked by<i>TipRanks</i>still rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.</p>\n<p>As our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.</p>\n<p><b>The Bottom Line</b></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SMP\">Standard</a> Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.</p>\n<p>That’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.</p>\n<p>Our Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.</p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>ChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nChargePoint Holdings Stock Has a ‘Filling Station’ Problem\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-22 20:51 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CHPT":"ChargePoint Holdings Inc."},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/07/chargepoint-holdings-stock-has-a-filling-station-problem/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1126677827","content_text":"The age of EVs has no place to 'trust your car to the man who wears the star'.\n\nFor ChargePoint Holdings Inc. , and indeed for all the companies involved in electric car charging, a key question remains unanswered. What will an electric “gas” station look like? Will you still be able to “trust your carto the man who wears the star?”\nSource: JL IMAGES / Shutterstock.com\nWe know how gasoline engines fill up. It takes just a few minutes. You can find stations everywhere. The imagination of station owners likeWawaandBuc-ee’sis bent to extending that time, pulling-in after a fill-up and going into the store.\nElectric cars take a half hour to fully charge, even with something like ChargePoint’s 480-volt “DC Fast.” With a 240-volt charger, the kind of power your clothes dryer might use, it still takes overnight. All you’re doing with household current is a top-up.\nThus,“range anxiety,” the fear that your electric can’t go onto the open road. It may be the biggest hurdle to a mass market in electrics.\nThe optimal answer for the electric car market is a station like Buc-ee’s, or a high-end truck stop likePilot Flying J, a chain partly owned byBerkshire Hathaway(NYSE:BRK.A). You need a place where you’ll spend a half-hour. Such a store would also need to alert drivers when their cars are ready, so the plugs can get optimal use.\nFill ‘Er Up\nEvenTesla(NASDAQ:TSLA) hasn’t quite figured it out. Most Tesla plugs are “Destination Chargers,” those 240-volt units suitable for a top-up, often placed near hotels. “Supercharger” stations are usually placed at shopping malls. It’s still sub-optimal.\nI’ve been harping on this inmy writing about ChargePoint. Until an electric charger becomes like a gas pump, you’re not going to get mass adoption.\nChargePoint is boosting“charging as a service”at hotel chains. It’s branding its network around car brands likeMercedes-Benz.\nBut ChargePoint doesn’t run electric charging stations. It sells hardware and offers software from a cloud-based platform. Its July 20 acquisition ofhas.to.be, a European charging software company, demonstrates this. Most ChargePoint sales are to commercial fleetsand new car owners.A fleet owner can recharge overnight, or between shifts. So can a homeowner. But they’re not going far from their charger. They’re tethered.\nAnalysts Still Pounding Table\nChargePoint had just $40 million in revenueduring the quarter ending in April.Operating cash flow for the period was anegative $2.1 billion. Small wonder that since the start of 2021 the stock is down 35%. Yet it still has a market cap of $8.35 billion.\nAnalysts continuepounding the tablefor ChargePoint stock. It’s too soon to write off, they say. Revenues should grow at nearly 50% per year for the foreseeable future. You’re in onthe ground floor. All five analysts following CHPT as tracked byTipRanksstill rate it a buy. Their price target is55% abovewhere it traded July 20.\nAs our Josh Enomotonotes, the argument for charging continues to be based on the plans of car companies to go electric. The chicken-and-egg problem of range anxiety could keep any of this from happening.\nThe Bottom Line\nStandard Oil made gasoline the dominant fuel for cars in the early 1900s by subsidizing it. Gasoline was practically worthlessin 1911. Oil companies made their money on other fractions, like kerosene and paraffin. By creating networks of“filling stations,”oil companies eliminated range anxiety.\nThat’s what the electric car industry needs now. It needs a filling station business model that works with today’s hardware. The charging company that creates one will build a huge business for itself, and for other charging companies. Selling such a model to an existing gas station chain, like Buc-ee’s, would also do the trick.\nOur Louis Navellier still likes ChargePoint becauseit’s the biggest company in its field.But until it can find its way to the tip of the spear, and solve the business problem created by range anxiety, it’s still a speculation.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5294326,"gmtCreate":1626958762392,"gmtModify":1635223747404,"authorId":3581579780416432,"author":{"id":3581579780416432,"idStr":"3581579780416432","authorId":3581579780416432,"name":"MachineGun","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b2a731c3f57f68f2ebe7e41ebb718913","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":172612800,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Sure","text":"Sure","html":"Sure"},{"id":5295448,"gmtCreate":1626963860393,"gmtModify":1635223686474,"authorId":3583057062119819,"author":{"id":3583057062119819,"idStr":"3583057062119819","authorId":3583057062119819,"name":"jefftt","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6bd621880c70630553bf57418e846287","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":172612800,"type":1,"supId":5294326,"prevId":0,"content":"sure","text":"sure","html":"sure"}],"langContent":"EN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":33,"commentSize":7,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}