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Honestly if we look what currently works best for electric cars is:

- short/mid distance (city/metro area/village cluster/...) - personal charger, often implying personal parking slot

In which case indeed gas stations become complete obsolete.

But if electric cars become more wide spread then there will be many cases of people without personal parking slots using them and fast chargers in super marked parking slots and similar are still rare. Especially people traveling inside of Germany. So gas stations with chargers are still somewhat useful.

I believe enforcing chargers on gas stations will allow easier adoption outside of the "personal parking slot sharing only case", especially they make electric cars more reliable for holiday/weekend/busisness trips inside of Germany.




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