You'll Soon See EVs Charging At Fuel Stations
British drivers could soon see electric car charging sockets at BP stations across the country. In a move widely tipped to appeal more to the public than anything else, fast-chargers would sit in a special area of BP forecourts to let plug-in cars juice up.
BP has over 3100 filling stations in the UK, so installing just a handful of charging points at each of them would see the network expand by five figures – all of them in prime locations for passing traffic.
The latest electric cars ‘only’ need 20-30 minutes to recoup around 100 miles of range (it’s even faster for Tesla Superchargers), making it feasible for drivers to stop for a coffee and a flick through the day’s newspapers while their car refills with power. It’s still far from being as convenient as filling your petrol tank, but maybe the change in pace might encourage a better, less frantic quality of life.
Shell has apparently already promised an initial 10 charging stations at its own fuel stations, with more to follow. Its own UK network totals 550 Shell-owned sites and hundreds more Shell-branded franchised forecourts owned by third parties like Euro Garages.
If Shell and BP are taking this sort of action here, then you can bet it’s happening across Europe. Soon, perhaps, you’ll regularly see electric cars charging while you’re filling your tank.
Via: Auto Express
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Knowing how many people put petrol into diesel cars (or vica versa) on a daily basis, I wonder if this will result in drivers trying to put petrol into their EVs
Or electricity in their petrols….
I’m already waiting for the funny videos where people pull up to the pump in their EV and wonder why the nozzle doesn’t fit.
I definitely want to see this.
Still wonder when EV user buy a coolant and searching for the radiator.
So when you fill up your petrol car a good prank would be to unplug the other ev cars charging.
Vandal, good idea 😂
As long as EV drivers don’t put an electricity cable in your car’s fuel tank in retaliation
The plug locks in.
Can’t be done since the cables lock in place. They thought of that issue ;-)
“What octane rating would you like your electrons?”
I hope they will also build a camping area for those waiting their cars to be charged up…
I’ve been thinking why people don’t put them at gas stations for ages
who wants to park their car at a gas station for 45min to get a charge? that’d be incredibly boring. Why not add those to restaurants instead?
Will you have to wait for them to finnish?
Hmm, if this encourages the general public to EV…more petrol for us! But then there’s the petrol ban thing in bits of Europe and all…
A funny prank would be unplugging people’s electric cars while they are charging
I bet they are going to make special Type of electric chargers called ECO/Sport/Endurance EV Fuel , its gonna be one epic way of increasing revenue! Don’t forget you heard this idea from me first folks,
You should patten it