[Steverino]

Architectural competition imagines what public EV charging stations might look like.


Intro and design details of the winners:

Fly through of first prize winner

So, those are the equivalent of car show concept cars. We know the production model is rarely as sexy. So what's a gas station's "production model" look like? Here's a new Circle K brand gas station in Norway with DC fast chargers, food, seating, toilets:

 

[obermd]

That last one with the Circle K is the only one that makes sense. The rest assume slow charging. We need high speed (15 minute or less) charging for EVs to replace ICEVs.