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Most gas stations don't have a lot of extra space. If a car sits there for an hour, they need twelve times the parking area in order to serve an equal number of gas cars, assuming the latter can refuel in five minutes.

Some gas stations may have extra room and would be able to offer up some parking spots for charging, but I'd assume that for most of them it doesn't make sense.

Another consideration is that throughput is a lot higher with DC fast chargers, and those are a lot more expensive than the cheap L2 AC chargers. And they might require some significant electrical infrastructure upgrades.




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