You beat me to it. Throw in Stuckeys and the Fred Harvey Houses!
Might as well be a rest stop, since ‘fast charging’ takes an hour and a half.
will they serve beer ? lol
We had an A&W restaurant with in car service in the town I grew up in. No roller skates but the girls did wear short skirts.
I have a relative who is an actual rocket scientist/genius. He says electric car manufacturers are dumb. He says they should standardize about 5 battery sizes for compacts to semis and have battery exchange stations where you pull in and your battery is swapped for a charged one in 5 minutes. No one would own batteries or ever have to buy a new one. No more hours of charging.
You’ll feel in ground shake from the Diesel Generators hidden underground
A&W root beer drive-ins was a good place for too.
I admire Elon Musk in many ways, but when you try to justify long charging times for EV batteries by wrapping this around the process, then you’re ignoring what the actual issue is...long charging times for EV batteries. I may be wrong but I feel that Hydrogen Fuel Cells will win the day because of all the technical advantages inherent to them vs. EV batteries. These technical advantages will also turn into economic advantages and then it’s game over.
I wrote about a month back:
As for electric car long-distance travel, recharging probably will take place during meal breaks. An electric car range of 280 miles and an Interstate highway speed limit of 70 miles per hour means a meal break about every four hours. While chowing down, your car would charge up. The highway exit restaurants would have car recharging stations and would probably prominently post their current electric recharge rate, which would vary considerably by time of day, hopefully subject to state laws that base customer costs to the rate 10 seconds before plug-in time. Highway-based recharging places might have battery storage to store electricity during daylight slack demand times for sale at premium prices when sun isn’t shining brightly. Recharging establishments might buy solar-generated electricity off a nearby solar panel energy farmer.
Fast chargers are currently expensive, but they are mainly needed at stores and highway recharging stops.
Might be better to connect the treadmills and stationary bikes of a fitness center to charging posts in the parking lot.
The map about 10% to 20% down on the page lacks a zoom feature, but out west you can see that the superchargers are located along interstate highways. Tesla also has them along the Trans-Canada Highway.
https://www.tesla.com/supercharger
The cost to the restaurant to charge the cars will be passed on to all diners who will pay higher food and beverage costs.
Enjoy your meal folks, you’re paying that dudes recharging costs.
Local watering hole is getting rid of neon signs, because they drive up the electric bill. Imagine charging ten cars continuously during operating hours. Ha
Elon should forget about cafes and focus on finishing the factory in TX that will supposedly make the CyberTrucks, because it looks like Ford is gonna eat his lunch...and judging by the stock action lately Wall St. agrees.
‘Hot Shoppes’, call them Spark Shoppes.