Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spiral that can end oil

Re:Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spira... by lamontcg on Saturday October 21, 2023 @02:27PM (#37969288)

I can't remember the last time I had to wait in line for gas that wasn't at Costco. Costco is a pretty extreme outlier.

But agreed that charging should shift to the home, the problem there is chargers for on-street parking though for people who don't have driveways/garages (of course this might eventually get solved by fully automated vehicles and lowering ownership of vehicles, but that's still vaporware right now while EVs are clearly here right now).

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Re:Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spira... by fragmede on Saturday October 21, 2023 @02:42PM (#37969420)

It's not too hard to imagine parking meters having charging ports.

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Re:Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spira... by mulmen on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:34PM (#37969854)

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Re:Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spira... by lightbritefight on Saturday October 21, 2023 @05:48PM (#37970780)

There are endless street level, public EV chargers in Seattle with cables.

Some random chargers being vandalized isn't really indicative of anything.

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Re:Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spira... by mulmen on Sunday October 22, 2023 @02:11PM (#37977698)

Huh, I can’t think of a single one. All the chargers I know about are in parking garages.

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Re:Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spira... by simfree on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:00PM (#37969573)

Running a 240v 50A power cable is orders of magnitude cheaper than building a gas pump.

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Re:Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spira... by erik_seaberg on Saturday October 21, 2023 @06:59PM (#37971256)

That's a first step, but I don't see parking meters in US suburbs. Some barely have streetlights.

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Re:Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spira... by fragmede on Saturday October 21, 2023 @11:06PM (#37972477)

though, In the suburbs, you're more likely to have a house with a garage where there can be a charging port.

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Re:Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spira... by prepend on Saturday October 21, 2023 @05:37PM (#37970684)

It’s not the waiting that’s the important part. It’s that lots of people want to get gas and they can’t all wait 20-30 minutes to recharge.

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Re:Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spira... by robocat on Saturday October 21, 2023 @07:01PM (#37971272)

Especially problematic during peak periods like longer distance holiday travel?

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