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Originally Posted by iXLagrange
I saw an article on your second point: it noted that gas station profit margins are tuned to throughput at the pump and the convenience store. And since throughput drops from say ten sales per hour to maybe two when a pump is replaced by a charger, so does income. Also oil companies must purchase power and pass it on with little control of profit. That is why they are not interested. That said some independent outlets do have both pumps and chargers, but they have not reduced the number of pumps, rather they put the chargers in the parking lot.
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This math only works for situations when the pumps are 100% occupied. In reality, most gas stations are free most of the time. I hope that gas station owners will realize this eventually, and start leaning more into providing value-added services for those EV drivers who have 15-25 minutes to kill.