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This is hardly surprising. Or terribly newsworthy. Just reinforces how early we still are in the adoption of electric vehicles. The amount of gas stations av
by anexprogrammer 10y ago
This is hardly surprising. Or terribly newsworthy. Just reinforces how early we still are in the adoption of electric vehicles.
The amount of gas stations available has plummeted in most places over the last 20 years. I presume Japan is similar. It's been equally down to supermarkets getting into petrol supply and the oil companies introducing large weekly mininimums. UK probably has 1/2 or 1/3 the number of petrol stations compared to y2k. It's ruined the convenience of filling up and tiny 1 and 2 pump stations are consigned to history. Live somewhere rural? Now you can drive 20 miles just to fill up.
Meanwhile charging points are being put in everywhere - towns are making charging bays in car parks, or on street. Much like happened with petrol in the 1920s.
Oh, and let's not forget a charging point caters for a lot fewer vehicles than a petrol station.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoEveryone can charge at home. You'll only need to charge out and about if you exceed ~200 miles in a trip.
- n0computer 10y agoNot entirely true if you live in one of many apartment complexes or multi-family residences. Additionally some single family homes might not have outlet access near vehicles. Which is likely more common in Japan too than here I assume.
- rayiner 10y agoGas stations are incredibly damaging to the environment, and the land is very expensive to remediate if ever used for something else. That's why they have been disappearing.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoAs soon as EVs take off and gas stations start closing up shop, I'm going into petrol station remediation. There's gold in them there hills!
- tamana 10y agoOil, not gold ;+)
- tamana 10y agoWhat something else? Is a retail space a worse fit on gas station land than the gas+retail spacd it replaced?