Chris

The writing’s on the wall. They’re going to have to embrace it sooner or later, and try to make the best of it as well, by expanding their retail offering to maximise the opportunities presented by drivers potentially being on-site for longer. Even so, I think there’s no long-term future for the filling station as we presently conceive it. The charging time means future “filling” stations are mostly going to have to be close to destinations rather than strategic points en-route, with the exception of long-distance routes (ie motorways, where the additional infrastructure for coping with drivers waiting around actually already exists).