[LINK] All German petrol stations must offer electric car charging

[Tom Worthington]

On 12/6/20 11:50 am, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> ...  recharging is possible (most of the time) in a
> few hours even from a 10A 240V circuit. ...

That assumes you have a parking space with mains power. If you park on 
the street, or in an complex with allocated parking, there may not be 
power to charge from.

It is possible to provide infrastructure for this, but someone has to 
pay for it. Also there is a trade-off between providing a few shared 
high current charging stations, or many dedicated low current ones. With 
batteries having longer lifetimes, some entrepreneur may offer 
discounted charging, if they can use part of your car's battery as grid 
storage. As an example, they might give you a discount to reserve 25% of 
your car battery for grid use.


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