Gas stations make pennies off of gas and nearly all of their profit on concessions.
Instead of giving incentives to hotels and businesses who have little experience or incentive in maintaining working charging stations. A better approach would be to pay gas stations .
It would also work as free marketing for EVs. ICE owners would see suave EV owners sitting comfortably in a sleek EV while they fill up their filthy petrol. Most likely you could pool EV producers to cover the incentive cost so the public cost would be zero
This is how I describe Buc-ee's to those who aren't familiar - Imagine a convenience store that's the size of a football field. Inside is freshly made, but not healthy at all food and the cleanest bathrooms you will ever see at a gas station. Next to the store, imagine another football field of gas pumps. Finally, all around the pumps and store is enough paved land to fill yet another football field.
You can spend 30 minutes in there pretty easy. I would say you could probably spend an hour in there if you tried a little bit. Lots of hot fresh food selections (Best known for their Brisket Sandwiches), lots of gas station food like chips, jerkey etc. Cold Drinks. tons of general merchandise things like T-shirts, Christmas decorations etc. They also have large, clean, well maintained bathrooms.
I've kinda figured that the basic business model is they offer just about everything you need and want if you are on a long car trip. Food, Drink, Gas, Clean Restrooms, a chance to stretch your legs for a little bit. And while you are stretching your legs they sell you a Bucee's Tshirt and tumbler.
I'm sure ICE owners would get over it quickly when they drive away after 3 minutes and the EV is still there being fleeced for overpriced vending machine coffee.
Don't get me wrong, EVs are good, and if you can charge at home or work, take little marginal time to charge, but an easily-pumped 40MJ/l liquid is a tough mark to beat when you have to fuel at a station.
I suspect that in a couple of decades, EV owners will think it's weird that we used to stop outdoors (in all weather) to put smelly chemicals into our cars.
They won't be surprised that it doesn't take long. They wouldn't stand for it at all if it took longer.
I think we've all priced in a lot of discomforts. Once replaced we will price in different discomforts.
Perhaps, or maybe people will say "you know in the past, charging your car took under 2 minutes and was always done under a roof, no messing about with cables in the rain and waiting 15 minutes. And a full charge lasted over 1000km!"
Actually have a PHEV, charged at work, but I'm under no illusions that the away from home recharging situation is not a stunning win for the EV side. Since the power delivery of a litre of hydrocarbon fuel per second is 40MW, and the very best chargers bristling with GaN, SiC and fancy controllers barely push 500kW, there's a little way to go.
I think it is the case now. The vast majority of people charge at home. Charging at a station is the exception, not the rule.
What will change is access to chargers in apartments and similar places. When that happens people will find it odd how people used to just assume they'd spend ten minutes a week in a chemical plant.
Another way to read that statistic is "the away from home charging situation is such a hassle that the vast majority of people without chargers at home don't buy EVs".
And the article is about station charging. I think we can all understand that home charging is basically fine.
And that's before the price. Depending on tariffs, home charging is competitive or cheaper than liquid fuel and the motor efficiency is much higher to boot. But charge outside at the "wrong" charger and the price can be up to 10 times higher: around 5-6 times the price of the liquid fuel on a kWh basis, and roughly double the per-mile cost as an ICE.
Tesla has Super chargers co-located at Parkers gas stations along Interstate 16 in Georgia. These are Parker's Kitchens that have a really good selection of Hot foods and places to sit down and eat. I'm assuming based on the spacing its strategic placement for Tesla drivers to get from Atlanta to Savannah or on down I-95 to Jacksonville.
I've also noticed them at Buc-ee's on I-75 and I-95.
I hate charging at gas stations. They're not a place where I want to spend time. Their retail is usually small, food choice is meh, and the surroundings are boring and smelly.
In my experience oil-company-owned charging networks are the least reliable. Shell Recharge is so bad it looks like intentional sabotage.
Gas station chargers aren't even an alternative to hotel chargers. They need different types of chargers — hotels and workplaces can have cheap and simple AC chargers that take a whole day or night to recharge (8-11 hours). Nobody is going to spend a whole day at gas station, so they need much more expensive DC fast chargers (20-30 minutes to recharge). But for fast chargers highway stops with a food court and nicer views are much better.
You don't fuel your ICE car in a stable to parade it in front of horses, and EV owners have no need to sit at a gas station.
Instead of giving incentives to hotels and businesses who have little experience or incentive in maintaining working charging stations. A better approach would be to pay gas stations .
It would also work as free marketing for EVs. ICE owners would see suave EV owners sitting comfortably in a sleek EV while they fill up their filthy petrol. Most likely you could pool EV producers to cover the incentive cost so the public cost would be zero