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This seems quite broken? Passenger car gas stations in the US, and my limited experience in Germany, are designed for cars to stop for 5 minutes to get ~300 mil
by jiveturkey 3y ago
This seems quite broken? Passenger car gas stations in the US, and my limited experience in Germany, are designed for cars to stop for 5 minutes to get ~300 miles of range. Truck stops are designed to accommodate quite long stays but those are much less dense and only on major freeway routes.
The original (and HN) article title is clickbaity. This isn't a "will". It's not a law yet.
- flohofwoe 3y agoArguably those chargers are most important along the Autobahn to fix the long-distance chicken-egg problem, and the gas stations along the Autobahn are mostly set up like "truck stops" where you can hang around for an hour or more, have a proper meal and do some shopping.
- wongarsu 3y agoAbout half of all gas stations along the Autobahn are also "rest stations" with a parking lot and restaurant. Of course one of their big demographics are truckers who stop there for their mandatory rest periods. That also means that during the day there's often also a lot of surplus capacity for extended stops.