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But customers don’t want that. And as technology advances and more cars can take advantage of fast chargers, people will seek them out. 9 minutes of a customers

But customers don’t want that. And as technology advances and more cars can take advantage of fast chargers, people will seek them out. 9 minutes of a customers time is better than none. Most gas stations that live on transient customers get less than 9 minutes, and they’re quite profitable.

bryanlarsen 4y ago
Gas stations are a completely different use case. By "stores" I assume the OP meant retail stores like malls, restaurants and hotels that add free/cheap charging to encourage customer traffic rather than as a primary business. I've seen lots of those with L2 charging, but none with L3 charging.
theshrike79 4y ago
As a customer, I want that. If I drive from here to the closest proper movie theater, I can plug in my car at a 22kW outlet. It gets around 7.5kW/h from it (single phase charger in the car, so it can only use 1/3). A 2 hour movie and some faffing about on both ends is around 2.5 hours. That's 15-20kW of power charged to my car, which can go 100km with 15kWh. The theater is about 40km away, so I actually come back home with a fuller battery than I left with. This is how the future should look like. 11/22kW destination chargers should be ubiquitous in all places you spend an hour or more usually (bigger grocery stores, hardware stores, IKEA, malls etc).