EV chargers are fuel stations

[DAL333]

Ev chargers at*** fuel stations

What is the future for fuel stations in several years from now if the EV uptake keeps soaring? Do you think they will all install EV chargers? Surprised many haven’t started yet to be honest!

 

[ARMARM]

Ev chargers at*** fuel stations

What is the future for fuel stations in several years from now if the EV uptake keeps soaring? Do you think they will all install EV chargers? Surprised many haven’t started yet to be honest!

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[karlos22]

Head is firmly in the sand.

 

[GedMelbAU]

I think suburban petrol stations will go the way of video rental stores. Urban stations will likely transform to service people living in high density locations. Chargers will also become standard in car parks and places where you park your car for an extended period of time.

The reality for me after driving an EV for over 2 years, is I hardly ever use a charging station. I top up mainly at home and occasionally at a restaurant, shopping centre, or tourist attraction I am visiting if there is free charging .

The times I really need a charger is when doing a long distance trip, and then I want the charger to be fast. I think Chargers will replace pumps at free way off-ramp petrol stations. Hopefully they will bundle this together with good coffee and restroom facilities.

 

[jamesgo]

This was a nice view of the future from the UK:

The Next Generation Filling Station: Gridserve

 

[Nobody Famous]

Fast Food Chains and DC Fast Chargers are a natural synergy IMO. Petrol Stations will go the same way as the Dinosaurs their fuel is made from, again IMO.

 

[RareEarth]

What they want is for people to go into their shops and buy food / drinks etc, this is where they make money. The type of energy being dispensed into cars / trucks out the front is irrelevant.
EV owners will be there for longer so more opportunity to sell them things.
Numbers of suburban fuel stations were decreasing long before EV's came along.

 

[paulp]

At some point EV owners will work out that they can pay $4 for a small water at a servo or they can go to a small local supermarket and pay half or less. Time will tell, but I think chargers will end up at destinations such as shopping, cinema’s, restaurant precincts, airports etc. Once there is acceptance that you park at these places more than long enough to get a decent charge then a servo, coupled with its extortion rates, wont survive. Once EV uptake becomes significant places like homemaker centres or shopping malls will see a competative advantage opportunity, and in some area’s its already happening.
There is also a company that is designing street furniture with EV charging, so every light pole, bus stop, and parking sign is a potential connection point.

 

[jamesgo]

When heading up the Hume from Melb and I normally stop at the Chargefox Euroa vs the Supercharger Euroa mainly cause there is a food court at the Chargefox site. By the time you've had a quick meal the car is ready.

 

[eclectricdave]

I take a thermos and have breakfast at euroa s c on the way to syd. The lack of facilies is irrelevant. Lunch at gundagai sc with food I bring with me. Olivers is too dear anyway. Dont stop at wodonga sc too far off hume.

 

[RareEarth]

Here Is What Is Happening With Fuel Stations In Norway

Here is an interesting report from the field in Norway, where Bjørn Nyland visits Shell Nebbenes Vest fuel station to find out its electrifying transformation.

insideevs.com

 

[Chuq]

I think others have summed it up well.

Those which are at highway rest stops or have adjoining cafes/fast food places will start to add EV chargers and will eventually change completely.

The suburban petrol stations will decline as there will be mostly no need for them - everyone local will charge at home or work.

Suburban supermarkets will end up filling the gap of the few that cannot - 50 kW is a sweet spot, speed wise, for a once-a-week charge.

The Gridserve link above is a good example of a "future" highway servo. This Circle K in Norway is a good example of one in the progress of pivoting to EVs.

 

[schnaxxl]

Fulham now home to the world’s first Shell EV charging hub

www.lbhf.gov.uk