Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Charging, Too::The country will need to increase its charging footprint by more than ten-fold if it hopes to reach its end-of-decade target.
Now, if only they would quit expanding coal mines to burn the dirtiest, nastiest possible coal.
The project is there. The dismantled wind farm was due for its lifespan and a contract made many years ago with an extraction company, way before the project for lesser coal in Germany, made it clear that after the lifespan of the wind farm they would have full rights to build a mine in its place.
Or sucking down on that Russian oil.
Do most gas stations in Germany happen to have huge parking lots to install chargers? EVs don’t complete their charge in 5 mins like gas cars. They need the space for cars to stop for at least 30 mins.
Very modern electric cars can hold very good on 15 minutes charge.
I was thinking the same too, it’d work in larger gas stations but the Mom and Pop places are going to quickly run out of parking spots. I’m guessing that’s the 20% that are exempt. Here in the US a lot of the larger chains are already putting in EV chargers and they are always filled up.
Just make sure the electrical juice isn’t coming from the same pump stand the petroleum is.
I’m led to believe that crossing the streams is a bad thing.While pretty much all countries do need to build out a lot more charging infrastructure, gas stations seem like the wrong place to do it. Service areas along highways, yes. Otherwise, do you not need a place with a large parking lot and something to do, like a shopping center or restaurant? I don’t see EVs ever being as fast as gasoline, plus what gas station would be able to put out that much juice? 80% of gas stations need to go out of business
And now we only need lower energy prices to make it viable.
The cheapest stations I can find in my town charges 0,67€ per kWH Recently came by one near the Autobahn that wanted a 0,56€ activation fee, 0,10€ per minute occupation fee and (depending on the charging speed) 0,89€ or 0,93€ per kWH Those are insane prices.
Also, we need to get away from coal.
