What will happen to the petrol stations in the electric age?

Fast chargers, petrol stations, Hilden charging park

What does the gas station of the future look like?

Dusseldorf It looks like an excursion into a green utopia: If you leave the autobahn at Kreuz Hilden near Düsseldorf, you can reach a charging park with dozens of fast chargers under projecting solar roofs within five minutes. In addition, a building is currently being built in which berries and salads for the charging park bakery are to grow on four floors – urban farming near the A3, fed by a power supply from two of its own small wind power plants.

It is already clear that the 19 million euro charging park in Hilden will be more than just a short stop to charge the battery for many visitors. “We are something of a pilgrimage site for prototypes and e-vehicle tests,” says project initiator and master baker Roland Schüren and talks about a Scania driver with an electric truck who recently charged him on a test drive from Barcelona to Sweden .

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