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Do people in the US take 15m to visit the pump?
by popotamonga 8y ago
Do people in the US take 15m to visit the pump?
- frei 8y agoNo, it's usually more like 5 minutes
- stcredzero 8y agoWhen I'm on road trips with my friends, I can never get them out of a rest stop faster than 25 minutes. When I'm on the road with my wife, 15 minutes is about the right time.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoAre you sitting at the pump the whole time?
- stcredzero 8y agoIn the case of my friends, I'm sitting at the pump or standing in the store texting my friends. In the case of my wife, I'm waiting for her to get out of the restroom.
- Dylan16807 8y agoThat's the time it takes to visit the convenience store. Relevant in some circumstances, but if you're not already in need of a break you only visit the pump and even five minutes is oddly slow. And the article and company site specifically say the time to fill the tank, not to visit a gas station. So they're blatantly lying.
- stcredzero 8y agoFor my personal situation, I can't fill the tank in under 25 minutes on road trips with my friends. So it works for me.
- thedaemon 8y agoHave you seen the size of our vehicles? Of course! ;)
- spullara 8y agoNo, not really. The trade off I make for my Tesla is that I spend 0 time at the pump 359 days out of the year and about 45 min at the pump on 6 days when I take a long trips. Though, on those days, we are in the restaurant eating while it is charging, not just sitting there staring at it.
- timsher 8y agoHi, I'm one of the founders at GBatteries - sorry, the article had a mistake on publishing; should be 5 minutes for that example.
- jerrysievert 8y agothere are two states (out of 50) that do not allow drivers to pump their own gas, so in that case, yes, it can take more than 15 minutes to visit the pump.
- Scoundreller 8y agoAt a Canadian Costco to save 10%-15%, yes.