RE:RE:Short term vs Long termIMO, it has everything to do with gov't (ESG score card) and marketing. When robin said he believe free charging might come around in 10 years, proving it's a marketing avenue, a business cost and not a cashflow component of their business. Similiar to free WIFI, free access to washroom, free parking offered from most retailers.
I visit at loblaw superstore i lot, (becoz i do shopping more than for myself) i think i saw only 2 tesla EV in the past 12 months in this particular parking lot. This is ~ 1% of the parked cars. I doubt any business would offer to sell sometime with ~ 1% customer demand, unless it's for other motives.
The biggest selling feature of canadian tire is offering of auto parts for ICE vehicles. I bet CT doesn't have 1 EV replacement part in their inventory but yet they are offering EV charging. LOL, it's marketing of course and ESG brownie points.
Retailers know EV owners are above average income earners, often as a 2nd car, often driven by a woman who have time and money to shop. Retailers want to pull in those spenders. Regular Walmart, costco, etc customers are bargain hunters and i identify them as mostly 'non native born' canadians that shop there, surely they aren't EV owners. These retailers love to attract the newer class of well-to-do into their store. Installing charging stations is relative cheap marketing (versus remaking interior decor or other fancy gimmick). Hence EV chargers worth the business gamble.
meritmat wrote: Don't think it has to do with the EV as it is with the government telling us we have to own an EV.
The government can go get bent. None of there concern what I drive