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I, in fact, do exactly that. I pull up in front of the pump, get out, stick my card in, fill up, and leave. It's been over ten years since I went inside the store at a gas station, there's nothing in there I want to buy.
However, needing to spend half an hour recharging if I were on a road trip would be fine, because on a road trip I would stop for a break from driving in any case. But, I almost never go on road trips, and 99.9% of my trips around town would be well within one charge, which I could do at home.
So, while I agree that charging doesn't need to be as fast as gas, it's not because of his stated reason.
Yeah that’s a crazy out of touch thing to say. That is exactly what every person does at every gas station.
Definitely.
Its ignoring that people's use of their personal vehicle is actually for work purposes, commuting; and guess what? People don't like to commute and try to get it down as quickly as possible.
His situation does work for people on road trips, but ignores the daily lives and routine of everybody that works for money.
Another instance of CEOs having immense privilege and literally cannot fathom or understand how normal people operate. I mean, just go stand outside a 7/11 for 30 minutes and start counting how many people go inside vs getting their gas and go.
Wait... you dont want a tiny chocolate bar for 7 dollars?
Excuse me, it's a medium size chocolate bar for 6.59 if I got >10 gallons and a soda+hotdog, with membership.
I have a cheap Mazda 6e with the small battery. It has on a bad day 390 km range if I run heater, in sport. For daily use I can hold over a week with that. But I have a home charger so battery is always full each morning. I only ever need to charge in a station on road trips. At least in Norway which is a mature EV market most have home charger. Only those with street parking (not that common in Norway outside perhaps three large cities) don't have home chargers.
Agree that people want to fuel fast tho'
I could stretch my legs for a few min, but that's only on long trips.
Also ignores the main issue, what happens when there's many cars and not enough chargers? It's not inconclusive to wait for one or two people behind you for gas, that can mean 90 min total stop for EV. Ignoring that the line will be longer if more people need to charge and range is lower.
I want an ev for my next car, but I'm scared of that
I have had a EV for 6 years and and just switched fulle to electric.
Not once in that time I had to wait for a charger but multiple times I had to wait for a pump.
Plus...you know beforehand if a charger is busy so you wont go to a busy charger anyways
How do you know if the charger will be busy?
If these damn things are always-connected, always-sharing your location with manufacturer and their 1793 partners, they are able to have the vehicle direct you to an open charger.
Depends...lots of places do not have card readers on the outside to promote shop sales.
So.. often you definitely will have to go inside and...wait.
I've never encountered such a gas station. I'd probably be completely confused and just leave.
Maybe I’m privileged for thinking it’s common knowledge that gas stations basically make no money from selling gas. I don’t want to provide income to that industry - so I never go inside. Like the other poster I would just drive 1 minute to the next station and never return to one that demanded going inside the markup store…