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Maybe, restaurants and coffee shops will take up the slack and put up charging stalls. Since every business is wired for electricity already I can't imagine tha
by gkfasdfasdf 7y ago
Maybe, restaurants and coffee shops will take up the slack and put up charging stalls. Since every business is wired for electricity already I can't imagine that it would require significant investment. Whereas gas stations require giant tanks buried under the ground.
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoIn the UK the biggest supermarket is rolling out charging in their car parks.
- vonmoltke 7y agoBeing "wired for electricity" is the trivial part of the requirements for installing charging stations. I expect most restaurants have a 20kVA - 35kVA service, and coffee shops a 10kVA - 20kVA service. Adding 10 2kVA chargers (which isn't a very large charger) would effectively double the service requirements for a restaurant and more than double the requirements for a coffee shop. That's a big capital expense, even if the circuits for the chargers are run on a completely new service (which actually makes "wired for electricity" irrelevant).