With internal combustion-engined cars, whether they use gasoline or diesel, things are pretty simple: when you're low on fuel, you just drive up to a gas station and voila; fill up your car and continue your trip.
Electric vehicles are a different matter, though, and the ideal solution would be an EV-equivalent of the gas station.
And now, four Japanese oil wholesalers including Cosmo Oil, Idemitsu Kosan, JC Nippon Oil and Showa Shell Sekiyu KK, announced that they will do just that: they will install 27 charging stations in select gas stations between Tokyo and Kanagawa in the first three months of 2012.
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