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If they really believe this, why have they let their charging network become so unreliable and poorly supported?
Potentially because the network has been a money pit up until now and so there was pressure to keep expenses low. Profit could drive further investment into service.
"Shell aims to have 500,000 charging points globally by 2025. On Thursday it opened its first ultra-fast EV charging station in London, which can charge 80% of a car battery in 10 minutes."
Possibly? My own very limited exposure is from a third country (SE) where my local station used to be Shell but after a push to go automatic a few years ago, the owners went to (almost defunct) Gulf in order to stay open and man the auxiliary services like hot dogs, parcel delivery etc. Must have been some kind of franchise? Certainly different depending on location and legislation."Shell aims to have 500,000 charging points globally by 2025. On Thursday it opened its first ultra-fast EV charging station in London, which can charge 80% of a car battery in 10 minutes."
Suddenly everyone sees dollar signs in fast charging? That puts them like 10 years behind Tesla. No disclosure on how many "Ultra Fast" chargers are planned for BP or Shell (but it looks good).
What's the relationship between a gas station owner and BP or Shell? Is it a Franchise like McD, could the owner take down the BP sign and convert themselves or partner with Tesla?
BUT it is actually a short week end here in the Ant FarmAll the traders have gone home early for the Long Weekend (Market closed on Monday for the MLK Jr. Holiday)
Fortunately, many of us here at TMC trade from the comfort of our homes, and so here we are at 7:22 p.m. on a Friday Nite...
Cheers!
It varies from country to country, and company to company. However typically the globally integrated oil & gas majors such as Shell tend to operate 25-35% of their sites and the remainder are on various forms of franchise arrangement. Franchisees can range from mom'n'pop singletons to quite large multi-site groupings. Typically supply of each geographical cluster can be largely (but not exclusively) traced back to a refinery in each region (or pipeline terminal) that act as the distribution hub, though that can be complicated by various swap arrangements with other suppliers. The entry of the various grocery/supermarket chains into petrol retailing over the last 40-years has upended the business in many ways."Shell aims to have 500,000 charging points globally by 2025. On Thursday it opened its first ultra-fast EV charging station in London, which can charge 80% of a car battery in 10 minutes."
Suddenly everyone sees dollar signs in fast charging? That puts them like 10 years behind Tesla. No disclosure on how many "Ultra Fast" chargers are planned for BP or Shell (but it looks good).
What's the relationship between a gas station owner and BP or Shell? Is it a Franchise like McD, could the owner take down the BP sign and convert themselves or partner with Tesla?
I guess Tesla actually could in theory charge all of them in the future, and especially if they tried to match their growth-rate at 50% annual.
It seems Nissan Ariya chose the same type of motor - with brushes, no permanent magnets. I learned somewhere that at low speed, PM motor gives higher efficiency, but at highway speed, AC induction motor has better efficiency. This brushed motor seems to have the best of both worlds.
BMW's Magnet-Less Motor: How Does It Work?
Here's why this old-school technology is back in BMW's newest high-performance EV.www.motortrend.com
Through an extensive study of old washing machines and vacuum cleaners BMW finally found a way to make an electric motor that needs service.
Contrast in goals is what I see:
In lieu of another providing an up-to-date answer to that question, in an earlier era - within the United States of some 30 years ago - the oil majors owned on the order of ten percent of the stations that bore their names. The vast majority, the so-called independents, purchased their fuels from whomever they wished; only the motor oils &c that came in branded packaging bore a direct link to that big sign over the facility. In other words, You Could Trust Your Car to the Low Bidder."Shell aims to have 500,000 charging points globally by 2025. On Thursday it opened its first ultra-fast EV charging station in London, which can charge 80% of a car battery in 10 minutes."
Suddenly everyone sees dollar signs in fast charging? That puts them like 10 years behind Tesla. No disclosure on how many "Ultra Fast" chargers are planned for BP or Shell (but it looks good).
What's the relationship between a gas station owner and BP or Shell? Is it a Franchise like McD, could the owner take down the BP sign and convert themselves or partner with Tesla?
Not sure that I understand how the profitability of a fueling station could ever approach gasoline....the vast majority of homeowners will rarely refuel away from home (except for long trips). Therefore the volume of electricity sales should always be significantly lower than gasoline and especially while EVs are just a percentage of all automotive sales. Plus aren't people speculating that as the world increases sustainable energy production towards 100%, that energy costs actually go down?
TL;DR - Stuff like this reinforces the notion that BMW will likely be the first that has to go to 'great' extent to save it's company and brands.
