Most EV owners charge at home or at work. And that's super convenient, makes going to gas stations seem like a chore. But a lot of people live in apartments and work at places without chargers, and this is a real barrier to getting them out of ICE cars. So I've been thinking about this problem of how they can do routine non-road-trip charging with the least inconvenience.
And I think the answer is supermarkets. Pretty much everyone with a car drives to the grocery store once or twice a week. For an EV with a 200-300mi range, the grocery shopping interval matches perfectly with how often you need to charge. And each time you spend around a half hour or so inside the store, an ideal length of time for a DC fast charge.
Tesla, EA, and other charging networks should push for large scale deployment of supercharging/CCS at grocery stores as the solution for this problem.
And I think the answer is supermarkets. Pretty much everyone with a car drives to the grocery store once or twice a week. For an EV with a 200-300mi range, the grocery shopping interval matches perfectly with how often you need to charge. And each time you spend around a half hour or so inside the store, an ideal length of time for a DC fast charge.
Tesla, EA, and other charging networks should push for large scale deployment of supercharging/CCS at grocery stores as the solution for this problem.