Are these drive-in parks the ‘petrol stations’ of the future?

The first of these parks is located beside a solar farm in Sønderborg, Denmark and is named ‘Better Energy Charge’.

It is a pilot project completed in collaboration with a renewable energy company called Better Energy, with plans for a second station already underway.

As the picture above shows, the arches of the charging station are made from cross-laminated timber using a modular grid system. This means that it can be assembled, extended, or dismantled and repurposed easily if needed.

Housed inside the structure is a showroom that provides information about renewable energy, accessible to anyone using the facility.

This education stands to highlight the positive change the deployment of renewables brings about – especially for the automobile industry – as petrol-reliant cars and vans currently account for around 10 percent of all global CO₂ emissions.

If we are to stay on the path to net zero by 2030, a global effort to reduce emissions from vehicles by roughly six percent every year is vital.

To accomplish this, governments are encouraging businesses and everyday people to make the switch to EVs over the next decade.

The good news is, we’re already doing a great job transitioning to plant-friendly travel so far. As many as 26 million EVs were on the road in 2022, which is a 60 percent increase from the year before.

The mass adoption of electric vehicles will no doubt lead to higher demands for charging stations, and if they look and operate as good as EFFEKT’s – it’s hard to see why anyone would object to one popping up in their area.