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by yingw787 2663 days ago
This is really cool Tom! A couple of questions:

- I don't have an electric car charger, but my understanding is that the charger is usually located inside a garage, meaning that the host would have to let the driver into the garage/house. If that's the case, what kind of liability insurance would AmpUp provide?

- Does AmpUp provide pricing recommendations for hosts, or provide information on what other hosts on the platform are charging?

- Is there a internal ratings system for hosts/drivers like Lyft/Uber? Otherwise if a host provides a date/time for charging and doesn't show up and it becomes a major logic path, you would have to provide calls/text support anyways.

- Are you concerned about the possible gamification of prices and hosts on the platform, like that of Airbnb's, that may unduly affect pricing or quality of service for customers that would box you into a corner, and are there any game plans developed for tackling such behavior?

Best of luck, and hope to see greater EV adoption because of AmpUp!

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Ratings and reviews are coming. Right now hosts on ampUp are nearly all hand picked. A lot of home chargers in the Bay Area are installed outdoor, and for the ones installed in door the current hosts are all very nice people. I've been to a bunch of them myself. For term of use and liability, we currently roughly follow the same used by Airbnb, but we definitely plan to update. I'm not too concerned about hosts asking for high prices, because public charging will always be an option, so public charging prices will act as a reference.