Starbucks makes game-changing announcement that could transform coffee shops across the country: ‘Starbucks is pretty ideal for this’

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1. “The Seattle-based java giant and Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging will install hundreds of fast chargers at 100 Starbucks near Interstate 5, according to Electrek. The highway runs south from the Canadian border outside of Vancouver through Washington, Oregon, and California and into Mexico near Tijuana.

   There will be four to 10 DC chargers of up to 400 kilowatts at each coffee shop, The Los Angeles Times reported. They will accommodate all EVs but won’t come online until 2025. The chargers will be fitted for NACS and CCS connections, as well as 800-volt batteries.

   The network over the next 12 to 18 months will expand to almost half of U.S. states, Electrek reported. MN8 Energy, ChargePoint, and Alpitronic are also involved in the project.

   Starbucks is pretty ideal for this,” one commenter said. “Just the right amount of time to get a drink, maybe a snack and hit the
   bathroom, all in a clean place that most likely you already visit regularly if you’re west coast.
   Compared to a sit-down restaurant (takes too long) or gas station (nobody wants to spend 15-20 minutes there).”

2. This is what mass EV adoption would need… businesses (especially large chains) with infrastructure already set up to install chargers as an incentive to spend money there

3. This is an amazing plan and will do well for Starbucks business.

4. This is a nothing burger.

5. Good Luck with that idea- Ford & GM have abandoned their “All EV” push starting in 2025 and are going back to make combustion engines & hybrids instead.. Automakers have so many EV’s on their lots they can’t give them away.. No one wants them..

6. Niche value-added benefit that will appeal to the tiniest market. How about instead you bring a cup of coffee under $1.50

   Puts on Starbucks.

7. The cost of some electricity, especially if they can generate it through solar, is nothing compared to the value of having a customer forced to spend 20 -40 minutes on your business.

   Sell them a coffee and a muffin and you’ve made your money back.

8. Thought the announcement was gonna be that they would no longer serve burnt and disgusting tasting coffee and serve good coffee instead

9. I thought that they were announcing that they would partner with organized labor. /s