IKEA Spain installing cost free charging stations for their customers - and Cyprus?

[cyprusmax47]

Interesting article in Photon International about IKEA installing charging station for E-cars, cost free for their customers, at their markets. I wonder how long it will take in Cyprus until large chains like Lidl and other large supermarkets can offer the same to their customers. Shopping one hour and get your car partly charged is normal in other European countries like Norway.

https://www.photon.info/en/news/iberdro ... g-stations

further one video showing one place in Norway explaining how it works, also the technical background

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/11 ... urse-video

Max

[William Morris]

Why should charging a battery operated car be free??

Why not offer free petrol or diesel!

How many other European countries offer free charging, Norway is 1, what others?

[Dominic]

Nobody said it SHOULD be, did they? It is just a way of encouraging spenders to use your store. If you have an electric car it must be new, and if it is new, you are likely to be relatively well off, and if you are relatively well off then people will want you to use their shops.

The same doesn't apply to petrol.

[William Morris]

Oh, I see now.

[Cookie]

Our local Ikea near Leeds has had the free charging stations for a while.

[Lofos-5]

Electric cars definitely are on the (near) horizon - and 2 recent observations that I made confirmed this (to me at least):

1) we just spend some days in Jordan where a relatively large number (15% ?) of the cars were hybrid cars. Jordon is far less well off then the GCC countries that I know much better but the Jordanian government slashed import tax on hybrids by 50% and thus generated an incentive that seems to make sense both for the government and the buyers - there are KIA's, Mercs, Toyatas, Hyundais and other hybrids in Amman especially.

2) Shell, by a large margin the largest filling station operator worldwide (>40K) is raising this to more than 50K. They make about half of the profit from non-petrol sales at these stations so this is attractive on it's own of course. Shell is also the leading energy company when it comes to prepare for the energy transition, they are working to move to a low carbon and CO2 footprint. So why more filling stations one might wonder? They said the dense network of filling station will place them at the best place where in a few years time customers can fill up the batteries of their EVs in 10 minutes and drive off. They also bought a UK utility to get into the power distribution market to strengthen their experience and to be ready for the energy transition. Both seems to make eminent sense.

A.

[cyprusmax47]

Electric cars definitely are on the (near) horizon - and 2 recent observations that I made confirmed this (to me at least):

1) we just spend some days in Jordan where a relatively large number (15% ?) of the cars were hybrid cars. Jordon is far less well off then the GCC countries that I know much better but the Jordanian government slashed import tax on hybrids by 50% and thus generated an incentive that seems to make sense both for the government and the buyers - there are KIA's, Mercs, Toyatas, Hyundais and other hybrids in Amman especially.

2) Shell, by a large margin the largest filling station operator worldwide (>40K) is raising this to more than 50K. They make about half of the profit from non-petrol sales at these stations so this is attractive on it's own of course. Shell is also the leading energy company when it comes to prepare for the energy transition, they are working to move to a low carbon and CO2 footprint. So why more filling stations one might wonder? They said the dense network of filling station will place them at the best place where in a few years time customers can fill up the batteries of their EVs in 10 minutes and drive off. They also bought a UK utility to get into the power distribution market to strengthen their experience and to be ready for the energy transition. Both seems to make eminent sense.

A.

Interesting post Andreas. Did you see plenty charging stations in Amman ? A good infrastructure is the first step towards e-mobility though....

Max