Re:The end of the road for petrol stations?
by rad_gruchalski on Friday June 11, 2021 @06:23AM
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They have only 8 years until all new cars in the UK must be zero emission so they have to start hammering it now to give people the time to mentally adjust to that new reality. You'll see more of this kind of stuff from BBC in the coming years.
The conclusion of this article is more of a 'death sentence' to BBC online journalistic quality in the last half decade, than it being the 'end of the road' for petrol stations; written as if the owners of these stations won't adapt towards integrating with electric charging stations themselves rather than being withered away completely.
The comments section in the article says it all really.
A few example paragraphs:
> Electricity, by contrast, is pretty much everywhere already. Where's your car now? Do you think it might be near an electricity cable? Exactly.
> And you don't need to be Thomas Edison to work that out.
> In fact, free charging is likely to become like free Wi-Fi, a little bribe to lure you into the shop.