(I know, I know, but this is somewhat balanced in approach)
EV charges at corner gas stations? So the entire parking lot will be filled with cars, all waiting to charge up?
Right!
California doesn't want either. They want everyone to take the trains, trolleys, and city buses, and fend off the ferals who ride them for free.
Sacramento is now the city of the walking dead. Mayor Steinberg is the reason. It used to be one of the nicest large cities in the country.
In a couple of years you will have all these charging stations with all the people driving ICE or hybrids. The copper thieves will have a ball cleaning up on the abandoned charger stations.
What sane person would invest money in building a new gas station in CA or any blue state?
Any new border wall construction in ‘25 and beyond has got to include the Kalifornia state line.
Out of control government remains out of control.
Build a gas station that does both, with a little solar panel and windmill to power the EVs.
fine ... build all the new gas stations you want right OUTSIDE of Sacramento ...
Huh.
High-power electrical systems at gas stations.
What could POSSIBLY go wrong??
Stop fuel truck deliveries to Sacramento... Today.
No truck deliveries with diesel tractors... no fuel trucks... nothing. CUT IT ALL OFF NOW.
Let ‘em sit in the dark a while until they sober up.
The explosions are going to be awesome.
Maybe we can store piles of magnesium there too.
Grant their wish. Less supply, higher prices, more profit for gas station owners, oil companies, and investors. Everybody wins except the idiots in Sacto who vote these dingbats into office.
Oh good, it’s California. They sure are slow learners out there.
Gas stations building permits will be like liquor licenses.
I Googled the cost of building the average gas station, it’s 1.1 million, which allows $300,000 for the land. Each charging station costs between $500 and $150,000. There weren’t numbers for the gas pumps and the number of electrical chargers, but my guess is the 150k is a commercial unit like you’d need at a major charging station. Around here the average gas station has twelve pumps, each with multiple handles for diesel, gas, and “marine” gas. Don’t know if that would equal three chargers, one for each handle. But adding twelve charging stations at just, say, 75k would be a massive increase in expense. The reason there are fewer chargers being constructed is THEY DON’T PAY FOR THEMSELVES.
The other problem is capacity. If you have a charging business it has a power carry limit, say, X. Usually, three cars can charge at max speed at any one time. Add a fourth car and all four will charge slower as they will exceed the carry limit. Add twelve cars and they will slow the charge to the point where you’d need a motel in the same lot so people can spend the night.
Hopefully, everyone but the owners of EV’s will move out of the place.
That’s backing into government mandated Chinese style Communism as usual.
First suggestions backed by media propaganda, then cutdowns of the other way, and then prison terms for those who do not conform to mandatory forced behavior.
People on FR who have said “I refuse. I won’t be buying an EV.” Until gas lines are 50 minutes long and stations are 75 miles apart and gas cars cost twice as much with government fees added. And no dealers are allowed to sell a gas car including online.
I didn’t want the light bulbs to replace regular incandescent ones until the government forced them off the shelves. Too bad for me.
Most of us notice the rooms are dimmer now. Or get so used to it now it’s like the restricted flow fawcetts and wimpy flush toilets. And street lights only light straight down in a narrow circle, not a broad lighted area of streets or sidewalks. And brake lights on vehicles have to add up a dozen or more tiny lights to sort of look like the old lights did.
this makes the existing gas stations worth a fortune....follow the money....some rat is going to get really rich...