Re: Are you f**king kidding me?
You will be able to charge your own car but being forced to look at a service station for 1/2 hr is never going to make electric popular.
To be perfectly upfront about it, I think that electric cars with (pure) battery storage is a stupid idea, but having said that I don't think that charging presents a massive or unsolvable problem. If you've ever visited one of the services stations on a motorway (which practically everybody has) then you can see that the places are built around expecting people to be there for longer than half an hour and there are signs up saying that you've got to pay for parking if your there for more than 2 hours, so obviously some people spend quite a bit of time at services (gambling?) as it is.
All it means is that instead of the existing situation where at the moment you fill up with petrol, then park up and walk to the building, then hit the toilets and then get a coffee or food you change the first step to "plug in".
I rarely end up anywhere near the building itself, requiring more than a 2 minute walk. Round trip that's 4 minutes. 2 minutes in the toilet, 6 minutes. Queuing to get a drink can easily be another 5 minutes; i've rarely seen a que much shorter than this in the daytime. So assuming that's right, the batteryon our hypothetical electric car is likely to be a third charged before you even start drinking your coffee with the existing setup, and probably two thirds by the time you've finished your coffee and binned the cup as services are at the moment. Keeping people there for an additional 10 minutes isin't beyond the wit of man and an enforced rest breaks every few hours of motorway driving is not actually the end of the world.
Existing petrol stations would be a bit screwed, since their locations aren't usefully refittable to this sort of standard, but I bet that an awful lot of pubs, cafes and the like that happen to be near highways around the country would do quite well from it.
That having been said, the last serious estimate I saw was that we would need to add an additional 150% of capacity to the grid in the next 20 years to power all of these electric cars; the actual generating capacity is shrinking and no plans have been made to build sufficient generating capacity. Barely anybody is even talking about building sufficient generating capacity; so it's not going to happen in a useful timeframe.
In this context, it would appear to make much more sense to run plug in hybrids that can self charge from the engine while driving to prevent overloading the grid (and save on building new infrastructure)