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Re:Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than... by marcus_holmes on Monday January 19, 2026 @11:51PM (#46688037)
Every time an EV driver charges their car at home, a gas station loses a customer.

Eventually this compounds and gas stations start closing.

That accelerates the switch to EVs because gas becomes hard to find. Which accelerates gas station closures, and so on.

The point at which it becomes impractical to drive a gas-fuelled car is approaching. It will hit different countries at different times, but it's there. 10 years, 30 years, whatever, but it's coming.

Long before that point, a hybrid is just an EV that has to carry around a chunk of useless engine that is hard to fuel.

Re:Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than... by nielsbot on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @12:06AM (#46688105)
How has this played out in Norway? (If you know) They're at 90% EV market share, right?
Re:Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than... by marcus_holmes on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:01AM (#46688405)
Good question, I have no idea.
Re:Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than... by jabl on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:04AM (#46688424)
Might be 90% of current sales. Still a lot of ICE cars on the road.
Re:Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than... by nielsbot on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @03:48AM (#46689468)
Yes, that's what I meant. Was just curious how the market for gas has changed (or not) in NO given that.
Re:Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than... by bluGill on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @10:47AM (#46693057)
In the US the average car is 12 years old. I don't know Norway, but I expect similar. Which is to say I don't expect this to have made any difference in the number of gas stations yet. Gas station owners are watching numbers, but and are likely to open less in the future (not zero, some new development/locations will be important, but some locations that previously would have got one will not longer be worth the investment. Or maybe they put in the station without gas pumps - people still need those snacks (again I don't know the market in Norway, in the US that is how it would be).

Gas stations are also trying to figure out how charging fits in. While people are expected to charge at home, there will still me some demand for on the road charging. This is a place that hasn't worked out yet (I personally expect people will go for a nicer meal and sit down for an hour charge - but this might be my bias)

Re:Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than... by jabl on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @12:26PM (#46694800)
Quick AI search suggests average car age in Norway to be 11.1-11.3 years, so indeed quite similar.

As for what would happen with gas station when EV's dominate, what already seems to be in progress here (not due to EV's, but other factors in the market) is that the "traditional" gas station serving stale coffee, snacks, and windshield wiper fluid are on the way out, replaced by either unmanned cold stations with just the pumps, or then by major roads large full-featured mini shopping malls with groceries, half-decent restaurant (sometimes several), and other shops. I think in a future EV world the cold stations would disappear but the higher end service centers would do fine.

Re:Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than... by elygre on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @02:41AM (#46689010)
Norway cars on the road, December 2025:

  Elbil: 31,78 prosent
  Diesel: 31,76 prosent
  Bensin: 23,90 prosent
  Hybrid (not plug-in): 5,38 prosent
  Plug-in hybrid: 7,18 prosent
Re:Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than... by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @04:45AM (#46689934)

    Electric: 31.78 percent
    Diesel: 31.76 percent
    Petrol: 23.90 percent
    Hybrid (not plug-in): 5.38 percent 
    Plug-in hybrid: 7.18 percent
Re:Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than... by thelastgallon on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @02:56AM (#46689094)
We don't know the business model in Norway.

In US, gas stations barely make any profit on gas, its all from the convenience store, beer, water, lottery tickets, trinkets, souvenirs, etc. Costco, HEB, Walmart, etc also have gas and can run it as a loss leader for customers to compete with Amazon. As the number of gas consumers go down, gas stations everywhere will start shutting down, except the Costco/HEB/Walmart, because gas stations can't compete with those prices.

The U.S. saw over 210,000 stations in the early 1990s, dropping to around 145,000 by 2022, and potentially as low as 115,000 by 2020, according to various data points. Some estimates suggest a potential 50% reduction in traditional stations by 2050 in some regions: https://boosterusa.com/from-the-experts/the-inevitable-death...

Re:Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than... by bluGill on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @10:41AM (#46692970)
Last time I read the financial reports for a gas station it was about 1/3 each, gas, tobacco, and food. Tobacco has gone way down since then, but the other two are still important. Gas is low margin, but high volume and so they make a lot of profit on it.