Featured BP buys UK's biggest electric car charger network

. Uummmmm - a hope to continue their profiteering stranglehold on the transportation industry?

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Could also be akin to GM purchasing and crushing all the streetcars. When you own the company, you control the rollout of the stations. And since public charging is seen as a barrier of entry for many new buyers who don't understand how a BEV works in the slightest, they can stretch out the length of time with substandard public charging infrastructure, increasing ICE sales over that period that otherwise would have gone to BEVs or PHEVs, and make more profit for longer times selling petrol products.

Not a bad profit model.

 

There is a reason why Tesla made the SuperCharger network. When the car manufacturers require their dealers to have 24x7 public access to several 80A L2 and at least one +75 kW fast DC charger, we'll know they are serious.

What do you think @Team ChargePoint ?

Bob Wilson

 

Shell Oil - in spending hundreds of Millions on solar and other renewable energies shows they won't be denied control of future power. Remember Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Whoever controls the energy, controls.
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