These Supercharger Cubes Provide The Perfect Amenities For Rural Electric Car Charging Points!
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- What's Better Than An Automatic Pizza Vending Machine? Kyle is in Germany checking out a new unmanned "cube" that can be installed at charging points around the world. BK Group installed this cube as the first of many to come at Supercharging locations around Europe.
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'About 16 to 20'. Looking towards the end of the video, I counted 20 Supercharger dispensers that can be seen there. And the site doesn't look completed yet.
All recharging sites should have multiple dispensers like this. EV recharging infrastructure really does need to move into the 21st Century. It's pointless going into somewhere like my nearest city car park and finding only 5 dispensers, two of which are low speed 'quick chargers' which can only deliver 7 kW, and just one DC unit which can deliver a maximum of 50kW - more like 44kW, in reality - to a vehicle.
To give you perspective, there are more than 30,000 drivers in this town, and 26% of new U.K. cars are electric. This city is the administrative capital of our county, with arterial roads nearby, and over 100,000 commuter vehicles travelling through the city every day. Yet we have only a handful of 'rapid' (50kW) dispensers, less than five 22kW 3-phase AC units, which most cars cannot make full use of (Tesla's only take 11 kW) and a couple of dozen 3kW and 7kW units, most of which are on private sites.
Welcome to Germany, Kyle. I drink non-sparkling water all day. Whenever my bottle or glass is empty, I open the tap and fill it. Plain water from the tap is well controlled and at top quality. No need for any plastic waste. And btw. I use ice cubes, too :-). And on a roadtrip - if you don’t want to use a public tap, it is usually no problem to find bottled „Wasser, still“ in a shop or gas station, too.
have u seen the charging pods/house looking thing that audi is working on? do u have them over there now or is it still a work in progress?
@@EricHurwitz
4 chargers per pod?
@@rogerstarkey5390 its got 6 chargers on ground level and the pod above it you have to have a reservation to use it. the reservation part turns me off.
@@EricHurwitz they are modules. You can build 6 or 8 or 10. The Highlight is, a main connection power of 200 kW is sufficient for the 2.45 MWh battery storage system and its six charging stations, each with an output of up to 320 kW. The grid connection uses 100% green electricity. In addition, photovoltaic modules on the roof supply self-generated electricity.
"non sparkling water"? You mean..."water"?
Bring it to America! We need more rural charging stations.🥰
it will happen. Just not as quickly as everywhere else in the World........
Bring it to my house!
@@SandoClub Supply ,and demand tends to make people unruly!☹
"Looks like Jordan's going to beat the salami". LOL
I love this kind of update. This feeds into everything I love:
Infra
electric vehicles
pizza
Only thing missing is a dog or two hundred.
Thanks for this!
That looks awesome! It still looks like a lack of towing friendly chargers though. In the video, someone goes by towing a tiny tent trailer, and they probably had to unhook to charge. With all that space, couldn’t they have a few pull though chargers on the perimeter, or were they there in the fenced portion?
Awesome. Wish we got more of those sideways chargers here in N.A. I have had to take off bikes to charge sometimes here. Wouldn't be an issue at this location.
Something like this would be AMAZING to have in the US. Charging hubs with this level of amenities are seriously lacking here. But I also have a feeling something like this wouldn’t last long in it’s current form. Guaranteed there would be heavy vandalism and anything that isn’t bolted down would get stolen, especially if it isn’t in a super populated area-which it likely wouldn’t be because that’s kind of the point.
Yeah that surprised me when I visited and did a road trip (mind you this was over 20 years ago now because I'm ancient). In the UK there are legally mandated motorway services and they have to have toilets, food, petrol etc available 24x7x365. Obviously we don't have to deal with places like Texas with hundreds of miles of nothing between places but I was surprised to not really see anything similar. You're either at a petrol station in a town, or there's just a tiny petrol station shop with a couple of toilets in the middle of nowhere. I think we saw the odd rest stop for truckers with some toilets and stuff but they weren't anything like what we have in the UK.
@@jonevansauthor yeah, scale definitely has a lot to do with it. The entirety of the UK could fit into the state I live in and it’s only the 14th or 15th largest state in the country. Most of the country is essentially empty, so there’s little incentive to build in the middle of nowhere. That could potentially change with EVs given the shorter driving range, but we’ll see 🤷🏼♂️
I think the great thing about EVs is you could have an unmanned charging area with toilets etc more regularly for the same cost and less anxiety from those signs saying, 'Buy petrol now or die in our enormous, unpopulated desert before you reach the next mote of civilisation!' ;)
Gotta say, their sales pitches are pretty good at inducing you stop and fill up again :D
Well it isn't like it is completely abandoned. There is cameras, people must come daily to stock up the machines and clean. For example one could make network of these all with live monitoring from the operator remotely via cameras. Someone starts to mess things up, have the remote supervisor come over on loud speakers. "Yeah, hi night shift manager Hans here in loud speaker. Please don't mess up our lounge and charging area. Also you do know there is night vision recording camera monitoring here. That is how I see you with that spray can next to the wall. Please don't or we have to call the cops on you".
6:45 I don't know if it's Germany specific (Europe is not just Germany , Kyle) but any drinks vending machine in France sells either an Evian or Vittel springwater bottle. Gotta love Kyle's naivete sometimes :)
Loving these charge station videos! The cube concept reminds me a lot of the rest areas that you used to see more of along our freeways in the USA. It seems like you see fewer and fewer of them and the ones that are still there aren't as maintained as they used to be nor offer much more than a poorly maintained vending machine or two.
This place is amazing, hopefully it will spread around the whole Europe soon!
Buying water on bottles is both frowned upon due to environmental issues, and lots of places have perfect drinking water in the tap. Our local municipality in Sweden even filters the tap water in a ridge with sand/stones almost giving it a spring water quality.
And you can buy a bottle with a filter built in.
We only use 50 billion bottles of water in the US each year.
Kyle, NEVER EVER again say “Jordan’s going to beat the salami”! And yes, we enjoy seeing new ideas on charging infrastructure. We’re EV nerds too!
That's what she said
I'd imagine if Germany is tough on taking videos of strangers, Jordan beating the salami would likely come with a more severe punishment
This is a neat idea, though a good portion of it reminds me of rest stops on interstates, maybe even some truck stops.
Still a fun idea.
These are definitely needed at Superchargers in the US. I'm sure it'll happen on down the road though
Maybe now and the next 3-5 years when charge times are 20-45 minutes. However, as battery tech improves and charge times becomes less than 10 minutes for a full charge, people will no longer use them.
@@jeffs6090 will never happen the motors are set there isn't much to gain there so the only way to improve the range problems is higher density batteries which happen eventually but then chargers need to output substaintially more power mean giant fat charge cables that are too big to handle people complain about these 350kw chargers can you imagine something in the 2Mw range which would charge 300kwh battery in 10 minutes
There are too many "oil is king" types holding things back. But it will come, once the realisation hits that oil will run dry one day.....
Wow. You’ve been doing so much in Europe. Your key contacts list must be golden.
I love how a Model S pulling a utility trailer drives into the supercharger station in your intro clip.
10:50 - "Looks like Jordan's going to beat the salami." Oh boy lol
Lol
Kyle what was your score on the pizza? Love for this to be brought to the USA. Love these type of videos. Could you also do a video of all the technical hurdles a person from the USA would have with charging. Like the app, payments…etc. I’m sure it will be a less of an issue in the future but looks difficult right now
Agreed, with all the Dollar Generals springing up around rural USA putting a few of these up nearby should bring in people to shop, and they can even set up a small area to sit and heat up something up from the freezer section.
That pizza looked like a solid 2. Just a frozen pizza with bad crust.
Thanks for the great content Kyle, love it. Super excited as off on our euro road trip this Thursday from UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and back up through France. All in our M3lr. Can't wait!
Yep, I roared when I heard those words come out of Kyle's mouth, so funny 😁!!
Sometimes it's wise to think before speaking.
This looks great. Would love to have these in North America. Looks to have all the necessities of a great charge spot.
I love the concept here. It's like a better Rest Stop in the US. Which is another place that might be great for these stations to go into. Interstate Rest Stops already have land with parking, so it seems natural to add charging stations to them. No underground fuel tanks to worry about in remote areas. The pods you show would be great for s short stop on a trip in all sorts of weather. Great tip!!
The CEO of General Motors said they have made a deal with Pilot and Flying J truck stops to install EV Go chargers at all their truck stops. Very handy along all the interste highways.
This won't work in US. The toilets will get destroyed and the game controllers get stolen in the 1st week.
Nice!!!!
Road ranger a fast growing truck stop fuel station has committed to installing charging stations in the future . Sealy, Texas nicely placed between San Antonio, Tx. And Galveston, Tx.
Love it! We need this in the US. A little creativity, a little innovation.
I'm guessing that automatic pizza machine uses quartz bulbs to 'cook it'? We have machines at work that flash dry ink with quartz bulbs, they can reach about 2000-2500F (1100-1370C). Easy to cook quickly with.
Awesome, once we get a Supercharger with more than six stalls here in Western Australia (in about 15 years maybe) we will possibly see something like this goodness. Thanks Kyle.
Very cool! Saw something similar at a supercharging station outside of Bristol in England a few weeks back, but looked like they were using it as a temporary sales gallery location. It seemed to have closed shortly after we got there but would love to see these in the US!
Wow, having been to many superchargers across the US now, there are many places that could definitely use something like this, as not every supercharger always has amenities/bathrooms available. The pizza thing sounds interesting too. Hope this becomes the norm around superchargers around the world.
Thanks for visiting the BK World :) I'm working at BK and fill These Pizza Vending Machines With Pizza 😊. Nice to hear U Like the Idea of the BK world ❤
Awesome idea the BK Cubes with heat pump and wood as building material. 👌😊
Great video. This setup is a game changer.
Concept is great and would work well in many remote areas on U.S. interstates in conjunction with rest areas, but my fear is vandalism here in the U.S. even though they have supposed identification of who last entered the cube facility via the app and security pad. People here though aren't as up on or enamored with high tech in rural/remote areas where these would work the best. I guess 7-11 type stores will remain the norm here in the U.S. with perhaps some outside spaces to sit. These would be adjacent to the supercharger pavillions similar to how large gas stations function today. What is needed is to have these immediately off the interstates or roadways such that you can get right back on easily (basically the same as rest stop areas are today off U.S. interstates).
This did remind alot of our rest areas.. Like it could be an easy addition to the rest areas.
Great video, thanks for showing us all of the detalis, hope we an get these in the U.S.A. Great job Kyle!
I love living in the USA but if pods like these are unsupervised in the USA they will get trashed.
The QR code for entry is a pretty good gatekeeper for keeping the riff raff out.
@@anthonyc8499 true
Require a credit card to enter and have tracking cameras like the new Amazon stores with no cashiers. Trash it if you want but they have your credit card and video of you trashing things from several angles for prosecution.
11:10 that's because pepperoni is an American food product not something you can really find in Europe (outside some speciality stores maybe). Despite it's name it's not from Itally but rather a fusion food created by immigrants in US by combining elements of Italian salami and Central/Eastern European smoked sausages.
It's all over the place in the UK. It's hard to find pizza in small supermarkets without it. Revolting stuff. :D
@@jonevansauthor though that's less of an issue with pepperoni in general, and more of an issue with the kind of "pepperoni" you can find on frozen pizzas in a supermarket.
@@HidingAllTheWay I'll have to beg to differ. It's been awful even at expensive sit down pizza restaurants I've been too. But then it is just a cheap sausage so what can you expect?
Makes gas stations look archaic.
Gas stations don't need this because you are only there for 3 minutes duh.
Excellent idea. I would worry about vandalism in many parts of the USA.
I thought the same thing. We already read about chargers where the cables get cut off for the copper. How long before the inside of the cubes are trashed and the outside is tagged/spray painted?
Those Cubes would last about 30 minutes in Blue cities. Maybe 20.
In the States, all of those portable office space companies could make a killing on something like this. Those single-wide porta-buildings used on work sites could easily be adapted for this.
Really enjoyed this and would Love to have some of these in the US!!! Yes please do more videos like this I find it very interesting. Thanks and WOW that Porsche yikes I want one!!!
Thanks for making this video!
Love these charging station videos! This would be great in someplace like Green River, UT.
I would only go to supercharging stations like this given the chance. Please bring these to the US!
Welcome to Germany. Have fun With the taycan !
PLZ PLZ PLZ BRING THIS TO THE US!!!!!!!! I AM SO READY FOR THIS.
Yeah a great place for the homeless to live in
@@shaynegadsden Watch the video! You need a smartphone and account to enter and I am sure the app would keep track of time spent in the facility.
@@jamoss55 yes because they never vandalise anything or break the law ever right
@@shaynegadsden you act like there's a homeless person for every square foot of land.
10:55 Did he say that "George is gonna beat the salami? Lol.. careful.
Kyle is the reason i subscribed to this amazing channel. he's just so enthusiastic and makes watching the videos fun! Kyle, i hope you will be at the sexy cars event on Saturday July 30th in Hannover?
10:53- “ looks like Jordan’s going to beat the salami”
wonderful, Tesla testes "lounges" in Austria in the past, one made it to Weyarn in Bavaria. But this is a whole other level, and I love it !
Imagine this in L.A? vandalized.
Pizza Machine was AWESOME!!!! We would order 1 of each please.
I like that, we need those here in the Northeast (U.S.), we only have outside chargers - no cover for times when it rains. :-(
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO. RETIRED 77, USAF VFW.
I wish Tesla would install them at all the older V2 stations which are often in the middle of nowhere in Germany and elsewhere, e.g. Berstetal south of Berlin which has one Dixie toilet and that is it!
Hope we see this come to the US.
Maybe in ten years. America is always far behind in tech that the first world countries roll out first.
Okay I definitely need more info on this concept. Very interesting.
We need these in the States!!!
A) - They're called 'Rest Areas' - we've had them for quite a while in the US.
B) - Pay no attention to the fact that if you had a ICE vehicle you'd be on your way by the time you got access to that pod.
That pod was so cool guys
I hope we see these in the US too, just so that I have *somewhere* to grab an espresso...
And for the most beautiful Supercharging Location Worldwide i would say: Senj / Croatia
A trip to Gridserve Braintree and Gridserve Norwich in the UK would make a good video. An interview with Toddington Harper the CEO of Gridserve would be good also.
There is already an interview with the said Mr Harper on the Fully Charged RUclips channel..... Very interesting....
@@Brian-om2hh Yep, I've seen it, just thought Out Of Spec would like to do some videos in the UK.
I think those are great and I wish we had some sort of cube thing like it here in the US. We have a wide variety of Supercharger locations that vary a lot. There is one behind a gas station in Superior Montana that is pretty good, although on my last trip I found the gas station is not currently 24 hour, so that means no bathrooms or snacks at night. For 24 hour bathrooms, there are quite a few SC at hotels that normally have a bathroom in the lobby, although the stop in Billings said they did not even though they had some kind of waterpark inside the hotel. There are a couple of steak houses if you are there during the afternoon/evening.
The wierdest location so far was in the parking lot of a Goodwill, but there is a Dairy Queen not far away and a grocery store the other direction with a pretty good breakfast sit down spot in Mitchell South Dakota.
I've seen ads for a Piestro pizza making kiosk that can make pizza in 5 minutes, but I've never seen one, the video of it making a pizza looked interesting. They were looking for investors, but it looks like similar things in Europe are already running.
The Kettleman City charging station in California has been my favorite to date.
Assuming you own a Tesla, the Harris ranch expansion with 80 V3 stalls should be available to you this fall.
Now this is more like what I'm talking about. It's like a modern Truck stop/gas station. Don't need to reinvent the wheel just give it a face lift. Canada has pizza machines.
I am more interested in the 4 mins pizza machine than the charging station itself. 😂
Interesting concept, hopefully, BK will be profitable on this endeavor. Have you done a review on the car you are driving?
These have to be heavily subsidized because my friend has owned gas stations and we were looking at a shopping plaza to buy and has room for about 30 extra spots and he contacted various companies about adding chargers and he did the math and it was not feasible to make a profit on. These are basically like rest areas as far as I can see and as we know rest areas are paid for by the government.
In the US this would overrun by gangs, homeless and drugs.
Wow, a BK Lounge. Dane Cook would be pleased.
This is fantastic!!!!!
Germans loves fizzy drinks in general. Try Apfelschorle. It's a soda with apple juice or apple wine. That's one of the most common drinks there. I would also recommend Club Mate.
yea, it was weird how popular it was when I was in Germany lol. Everyone drinks it. I was like, this is just watered down juice with bubbles xD
@@joeisawesome540 for me Apfelschorle is a MUST DRINK when I am in Germany. In general when you visit another country (sometimes even different region or state) you should try local cuisine.
We had a drink close to Apfelschorle in Poland but it was discontinued due to low sales. I don't even like very much but there is no trip to Germany without it. It just doesn't count.
We need those in the US!
Idea: They could use the extra heat from cooling the charging cables to cook the pizzas.
And they do put Peperoni on Pizza in Germany. Ask for Pizza Diavolo :)
There are 3D printing companies that could print out these full size pods in the US.
It's hard to believe that TV and those switch controllers won't get destroyed every few months. I feel like, in the US, the controllers would constantly get stolen.
That's why you gave your own QR codes so they register who comes in. They also have camera so they know exactly what happens.
Truth to be told a console for an EV owner shouldn't be a great expanse.
@@martinbookkeeper8199 yes. Just like the Amazon stores with no checkout. Grab, get charged, go.
I’m interested in buying a Tesla so charging station info, reliability, safety, convenience etc is of definite interest so please keep them coming with emphasis on US travel. Thanks!
400 C for the pizza oven, wow! I wonder how hot the 2 minute cooker will get!
go to "Eberstallzell" Supercharger in Austria. Also very intersting for you maybe. They have a "Ökolounge" and the Company who Provides everything there is called POD
I read the video title wrong and thought you had found a Charge Station in a Box like I think Audi makes. To me that is a good idea that I would like to see more of. Something like that could be just dropped in place quickly and moved if not needed. In a perfect world you could get something like that that is off grid with solar or something. If business could drop those in place like they do Vending machines they could make passive income with minimal commitment.
Great idea. I have seen Pizza vending machine’s in Texas. Not at a supercharger location.
Awesome review, great product
We like sparkling water for the same reason you don't like flat soda ;-)
finally! we need. this everywhere. Even JUST the bathrooms. AND not to be Italian about it but pepperoni is a TYPE of salami but it is too spicy for most germans. spicy food is hard to find in Germany at all!
I like the cube idea, however I'm not so keen on having access to the facility coupled with needing to own a particular type of car, or the need to charge. I would prefer it as a generic rest stop that anyone can visit, regardless of what type of car they drive, with EV charging available as simply one of many amenities the facility has to offer. Even gas car drivers should be able to stop at the cube and use the facilities. And buses (whether powered by electricity or diesel) should also be able to stop there to provide a break for their passengers. Even extra-large parking spaces for a few semi-trucks would be useful, as the drivers of those vehicles need to take breaks too.
The moment you start coupling the facility with the car, then every manufacturer faces pressure to build their own, each with limited usage from just one particular car type, and the whole thing becomes so much less efficient.
Tesla has to open the Supercharger network for all EV's to avoid legal regulations in the EU. Last year they started a test run in the Netherlands and a few weeks ago they opened 16 destinations for all EV's in Germany
6:50 - 'I don't know why they like sparkling water so much'. - Oh you Americans!
Peperoni is a spicy type of chili, not a type of sausage in Germany, so don't be astonished if you order a Peperoni pizza (which is widely available).
These are awesome, wish they would bring these to Canada superchargers.
This is so cool, Tesla always making me wonder what’s next.
It's such a cool concept!
Pretty neat setup. I think this will especially be great to families travelling. And I think this the future for Tesla as they add being a fuel provider to their resume. Maybe Tesla will be the Shell or Mobile of EV charging. Of course, this will happen last in the US. :-
Also checkout the Fastned chargers. They have auto payment with the data that supports it.
Hey, Kyle - New York pizza is just pizza - I was curious about this when my parents went to NY , and they said it was good, but no better than pizza from any of the six pizza places in our Australian country town. They have had pizza in Italy as well (where it was invented), so they have a good reference point.
Did they have Chicago style pizza?
No, it's a different style although it is similar to a Neapolitan pizza so it's basically the same as a thin crust pizza in most places. New York has cheese all over it, 'real' pizza has it in blobs. A Chicago one is incredibly deep, and a Detroit one is rectangular.
But... I do think you should just eat whichever style you prefer and not worry about it, since it's hardly the height of original cuisine (it's delicious, it's just not a complicated masterpiece that only works one way).
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It's a bit odd since every tesla supercharger I have ever seen has been at a motorway services so all the amenities are there already.
Gas stations already do all that but with a smiling face behind the counter...🙂
Where is it located in Germany? Because I’m planning to go there next week
Is this a franchise? Would be cool if it is. To set these up all over the USA at the electrify America rest areas.
Before you go back to the states, you must visite the LADEPARK HILDEN, near Düsseldorf. Over 100 chargingpoints. 40 Tesla charger, 12 Fastned hypercharger the rest AC charger 11 /22 kw. Also fine backery and pizza and salad. Come on Kyle.
I would luv this in the states.... however, in the rural areas, with no supervision, there are lots of "roll coal" folks that may be vandalizing these pods.