Petrol stations have various strict requirements regarding their electrical installations for obvious reasons. How will adding a MW size supply for a few high power chargers be dealt with, separation? Will earth leakage currents be a problem? If I remember correctly the reason the canopys are so high is to move the lighting into a different zone.
30000000 vehicles divided by 8000 filling stations = 3750 vehicles per filling station.
Assume each vehicle is filled once a week and garages open 6.00am to 10.30 pm like our local supermarket filling station, that’s around about 37 vehicles per hour visiting each of the garages.
So does each garage need replacing with around 40 fast chargers or more?
It depends on what fraction of total EV charging happens in such locations. At the moment EV ownership is heavily biased towards people who are able to charge at home (have driveways, etc.), and such people might only use a public charge point a few times a year. I also expect fewer petrol-station-like "places you go to charge your car" and more slow charging in places you are already going (supermarkets, public car parks, etc). Motorway service stations will need significant numbers of high power chargers (and a new substation), but no-one who has a home charger stops at a rapid charger on their way home from work (as you might do to get petrol) unless they actually need to do so to get back.
I'm not sure if anyone is currently collecting statistics on where most charging currently happens.
30000000 vehicles divided by 8000 filling stations = 3750 vehicles per filling station.
Assume each vehicle is filled once a week and garages open 6.00am to 10.30 pm like our local supermarket filling station, that’s around about 37 vehicles per hour visiting each of the garages.
So does each garage need replacing with around 40 fast chargers or more?
It depends on what fraction of total EV charging happens in such locations. At the moment EV ownership is heavily biased towards people who are able to charge at home (have driveways, etc.), and such people might only use a public charge point a few times a year. I also expect fewer petrol-station-like "places you go to charge your car" and more slow charging in places you are already going (supermarkets, public car parks, etc). Motorway service stations will need significant numbers of high power chargers (and a new substation), but no-one who has a home charger stops at a rapid charger on their way home from work (as you might do to get petrol) unless they actually need to do so to get back.
I'm not sure if anyone is currently collecting statistics on where most charging currently happens.
