It does for them.
They get complete charging data, and a predictable long running income from the user that would outweigh what they would make from the user otherwise... Win win for them.
What kind of monumental ******** do you have to be to steal things from schools like this.
I'd be interested to know how much the laptops cost and what they actually were though.
So by and large going off those numbers, this isn't really a great deal for the end user.
Just seems to be financial and data upsides for Gridcars really.