ASIDE from your Venti iced mochas to save you on a tired morning, Starbucks is now ready to help the EV industry.
With not enough charging stations for electric car drivers, Starbucks weighing in is a welcome help.
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Starbucks is to become the ‘new gas station,’ offering not only drinks and snacks but also a place to charge up your EVCredit: Getty Images
If you are running low on fuel, you can probably drive around the block to find not one, but even a couple of gas stations.
Electric cars are a different story, with not many charging stations available throughout the country.
With the growing EV industry, the lack of charging stations is becoming a bigger problem and driving miles and miles to find one is not ideal.
Back in late 2021, approximately $5billion was to be put aside “under the new National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program established by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, to build out a national electric vehicle charging network, an important step towards making electric vehicle (EV) charging accessible to all Americans,” reported the US Departments of Transportation and Energy.
Despite this memorandum, we do not know exactly when this change will start coming into our daily lives.
With the help of Starbucks, however, America’s summer may start to look different for some electric car drivers.
“Beginning this summer, Volvo electric vehicle chargers, powered by ChargePoint, will be available at up to 15 Starbucks stores along a 1,350-mile route from the Colorado Rockies to the Starbucks Support Center (headquarters) in Seattle,” Starbucks stated during a press release.
Starbucks’ approach to electric charging stations is similar to that of gas stations, where people can easily go grab a hot dog or a cup of water, shares TheStreet.
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Increasing the number of charging stations is important to ease the hassle for electric car drivers.Credit: Getty Images
“We know infrastructure is the primary reason customers hesitate or decide not to purchase an electric vehicle.”
“By providing charging infrastructure customers can count on, we are hoping to remove that barrier with the added benefit of being able to order your favorite Starbucks beverage while you wait,” added Starbucks.
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