Storing large numbers of battery packs safely would be a challenge, and they still would need to be recharged.
A single 50K liter fuel drop is the equivalent of 1.75 TJ, that's 486111 KWh (one liter of gasoline is 35 MJ). If a typical car has a 60 liter gas tank that's 850 cars give or take. A busy gas station will go through that in a few hours. Say 200 cars / hour, that's a bit over 4 hours. So the electrical equivalent of that 50K liter fuel drop delivered over the space of 4 hours (assuming equal efficiency, which probably is not correct) would require 125 MW of electrical input. As a check: One Tesla super charger is about 100 KW, running 200 of them in parallel would require 20 MW.
So it appears that even at roughly 5 times the efficiency of a gasoline engine the power requirements of a filling station capable with such volumes would be quite significant. You're talking high voltage distribution to the stations at a minimum to reduce the losses, even at 10KV that's still 2K amps.
Pretty sleepy here so apologies ahead of time if I messed up too much on the calculations.
A single 50K liter fuel drop is the equivalent of 1.75 TJ, that's 486111 KWh (one liter of gasoline is 35 MJ). If a typical car has a 60 liter gas tank that's 850 cars give or take. A busy gas station will go through that in a few hours. Say 200 cars / hour, that's a bit over 4 hours. So the electrical equivalent of that 50K liter fuel drop delivered over the space of 4 hours (assuming equal efficiency, which probably is not correct) would require 125 MW of electrical input. As a check: One Tesla super charger is about 100 KW, running 200 of them in parallel would require 20 MW.
So it appears that even at roughly 5 times the efficiency of a gasoline engine the power requirements of a filling station capable with such volumes would be quite significant. You're talking high voltage distribution to the stations at a minimum to reduce the losses, even at 10KV that's still 2K amps.
Pretty sleepy here so apologies ahead of time if I messed up too much on the calculations.