Japan launch EV Service Station Network

Oil companies JX Nippon Oil, Idemitsu Kosan Co, Cosmo Oil Co. and Showa Shell Sekiyu KK are teaming up to test a fixed-fee EV charging service at their gas stations. 27 stations will be involved in Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture beginning in the very first quarter of 2012.The 4 businesses have designed what they call an “EV Service Station Network” where members can charge their plug-in EVs at a standard petrol station alongside internal combustion engine powered automobiles.Of the four,

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