Will Gas Stations Survive?
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2020
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Although it’s not likely to happen soon, someday gas stations may be replaced by (or turn into) another type of fueling station, because no fuel or mode of transportation is forever.
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Gas station - a roadside establishment that sells gasoline, and diesel (AKA petrol station, service station, garage, filling station)
Convenience store - a store selling a limited range of household goods and groceries, often functioning simultaneously as a gas station
Stable - a building for keeping horses
Livery stable - a building where horse owners can/could pay a fee to have their horses fed and kept
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References:
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Ah yes my notification took nearly a day
@@Sci_X1 same
21 hrs ago got it
S-tier Avatar reference
Cabbage man
I'm here before this comment blows u0
I didn't get it
Facts
my cabbagessssss
I’m convinced every video is just an excuse to tell a pun one of the writers thought of in the shower xD
Yeah that's why they make short videos under the title MinuteEarth😁
I dont even realize what the puns are in all the videos I have watched :(
That's not true, sometimes it's a bath.
MinuteEarth video idea: why do we have certain bodily functions/sounds
ex. hiccups or our stomach rumbling?
This one was really good though.
The joke at the end with Cabbage Guy in a car actually happened in-universe! In the sequel series Korra it's revealed he set up a car company: Cabbage Corp!
Cool
My cabbages!!!
My Cabbage Corp!
I honestly didn’t know that
@CWW We can as soon as ending global warming costs less/makes us more money than not doing so :)
MY CABBAGES!
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(I'm glad the cabbage guy got a helmet at the end. He needs it! Poor guy)
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Glad I found this comment so fast
MY CABBAGE CORP!!!!
Your icon made me read that in a Temmie voice. "NOWOOO TEM CABBIG ;0;"
1:12 MY CABBAGES!!
2:10 convert gas station into charging stations
Electricity is far more decentralized than gasoline distribution. For gasoline distribution you need storage tanks, pumps, tanker truck access or pipeline... all stuff that individual car owners don't set up for themselves. Electric cars need a power outlet something easily set up as part of any building. Tesla super-charge stations need a bit more setting up but nothing worse than a transformer.
ye it will put quite a few people out of the job which makes it quite an obstacle for a politician to put through the system. It'll be political suicide for many of them.
The transition for car manufacturing is even worse I think since all these high level engineers are required for the complex clutch mechanisms in gasoline cars which is completely redundant in electric vehicles. Germany especially is hesitant to switch to electric for that reason.
not only that, but gass stations would also have to compete with any place that offers parking where prolonged stops make sense(malls, city centers, train stations, etc.).
Add to that the fact that for long trips a electric car requiers +40 min to reach a significant charge before you move on which would mean that gass stations will have a significant reduction in how many customers they can serve at a time, limited by the size of their parking lot.
Wouldn't saying that gass stations will dissapere but they will definitely be rare and will probably not be very recognizable, becoming big roadside parking lots offering services that merit a +40 min break.
EV charging is more decentralised but requires a lot longer than filling up a gasoline vehicle. This means that for the smaller number of people that need to charge away from home (visitors & people that live in dense urban environments) they will need a large number of charging stations. Gas stations seem perfectly poised to exploit this. They have space for a number of vehicles and a store where people can buy snacks and drinks.
@@Broockle the same happened when horses became obsolete. Politicians don't have the power to stop technological advancement. Economics will prevail.
I think you might be underestimating the amount of infrastructure needed to put a power outlet out in the middle of nowhere. Especially a power outlet that can safely deliver the wattage an electric car could use.
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Very true The best way to predict your future is to create it
Yes
you mean like Exxon? exxonknew.org/ ...
I just saw the Cabbage guy from Avatar The Last Airbender.
*MY CABBAAGGGEEESSS!!!!!*
A very sophisticated cabbage dealler
1:14 IT'S CABBAGE MAN FROM AVATAR
I wish that for the '"horse power" has been replaced by horsepower' part the new car ran over the cabbages and the guy was like
*MY CABBAAGGGEEESSS!!!!!*
And, of course, gas stations sell more than just fuel. Even if you can drive a car across the continent without recharging, you'll still want somewhere to buy snacks and use bathrooms and whatnot.
Exactly. They are like supplying stations for those on country road trips. Even if buying supplies in a grocery store might be much cheaper.
And many car items that doesn't has to do with fuel like window wipers, new seat covers, road pillows and many more..
WAIT ITS AVATAR CABBAGE MAN at 1:14
Gas stations already transformed into convenience stores and fast food places that also happen to sell gas on the side. If you're REALLY lucky they might also have a small section of automotive related stuff like a few quarts of engine oil and windshield wipers. Maybe even a sparkplug!
That's some top tier Avatar reference
MY CABBAGES!
1:13 MY CABBAGES! 😱
You forgot to add the part where there is a car wreck followed by the driver shouting "MY CABBAGES!!!"
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Gas stations in Argentina are called "Estaciones de servicio", or Service Stations. That's a more accurate name given what they do. Gas stations have already been disappearing from large cities, and yes, those will probably continue to disappear. But those on the roads in between urban populations? No way. They do so much more than selling gas. Even if you don't need gas, you'll still need to stop for coffee and food, to change fluids on your car, or inflate your tires, and rest a little bit. Not common everywhere, some places tend to have smaller gas stations, but where I live gas stations in relatively well traveled highways are fucking cities. Look on Google maps for "Shell las armas" or "ACA Dolores" or "Parador minotauro" in Buenos Aires province, Argentina. This gas stations are several city blocks large. There is one closer to the capital that is even larger, and near Rosario city there is one that is 20.000 square meters large. In many of these you have a huge food court, a few other fast food restaurants such as mcdonalds, a convenience store, auto parts stores, gift shops, etc.
All of those needs aren't gonna go away any time soon.
Service station is a fairly common name for them even in many English-speaking nations...
@Xavier Toll Hernando Cars will never go away, because nobody but a few dirty hippies want cars to go away. It doesn't matter how much technology advances, personal transportation devices will continue to be a thing, regardless of their shape or how they move or look, and therefore there'll be places where people that are going from one place to anther on their personal transportation devices can stop, rest, have a cup of coffee, and maybe buy whatever is needed for their pods to continue moving.
The gas station being 20 square meters: KAMPICKT
We have these in the US too, they're called "Rest Stops". When saying "Gas Station", we're talking about _only_ the gasoline providing part, whether it's a standalone gasoline station, or a gasoline station that's located within a much larger Rest Stop. No one's talking about the part where you have snacks, bathrooms, food, etc. That has nothing to do with how your car is powered at all.
When providing percentages of these kind (dotted across the video), it is helpful to add what population/market you're referring to.
Yes
"world". It's the one that makes most sense for this global audience.
1:08 lmao you really said "nitch"
Apparently lots of americans pronounce it that way, but I was really confused the first time I heard it.
@@Xentillus oh fr? I thought it's supposed to be pronounced like the food quiche is.
Yeah, I'm always one for dialects where the meaning is still conveyed, but for the majority of the English speaking world, "Nitch" for "Niche" (nee-sh) bears no resemblance
@@zachv7449 Oh it's supposed to, but that doesn't stop many people from pronouncing it the wrong way. It's one of those mis-pronunciations that's so common it's practically an alternate pronunciation.
I’m American and I pronounce it neesh
I’ve always figured that when hydrogen or electric cars, or even battery swap cars, reach critical mass, the gas companies won’t get too worked up. They’re after delivering _energy_ after all, the form is less relevant. All they have to do is conversions. In fact, it might even be more profitable in the long run, since electricity (especially nuclear when not artificially inflated) is dirt-cheap compared to gas.
Plus it starves OPEC, which is fantastic.
I'm dumb so I want to ask?
Do electric car really more eco then the gasoline one? I mean to make electric we still need to burn alot, the only exception that can satisfy the capacity is only nuclear power plant (it just my thinking thou)
@@CharDhue
Pros:
- Electric cars regenerate energy when breaking, while gas cars just lose the energy to friction on the break pads.
- The huge expensive turbines in power plants are much more efficient at extracting energy than the small relatively inexpensive automobile engine.
Cons:
- You lose some energy in the conversion to/from electricity, and in transmitting/storing that electricity.
Overall, Pros > Cons, and an EV powered 100% by coal-powered electrical generation, uses 10% less carbon than a gas car per mile driven all factors considered. However, right now 40% of electricity generation in the US is renewable (Not Carbon-Emitting). So, EVs actually produce 50% less CO2 than gas cars. And, every year fossil fuels are used less and less. Once this hits 100% Renewable, there's no CO2 release.
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Don't forget the power of the used car market. A ton of new electric cars are coming out which will diversify the field, a d electric cars tend to tank in value fast then level out. I suspect a lot of used car buyers will go electric over gas and accelerate the transition
Depending on how used I don't think that would have as huge impact as you think. I wouldn't buy a second hand EV knowing that the batteries are most likely at the end of their life and replacing them cost way more than the car itself is worth. Until a major advancement in battery technology is made where they have higher energy density, lifespan and are not made from limited supply rare-earth materials, I don't see EVs making petrol cars obsolete.
interesting
@@Kluneberg I'm sure it depends on the manufacturer, but for teslas at least, the life expectancy is on average ~400k miles. Which...I mean don't buy a gas powered car with 400k miles on it either.
So far Tesla's have depreciated no faster than gas cars. Nissan Leaf on the other hand.....
@@z-beeblebrox Tesla's numbers are unproven and based on accelerated wear simulations. I wouldn't trust anything Musk says.
Personally, I'd prefer an electric car with an on-board petrol generator, like the Chevy Volt (except, you know, not a Chevy). You get the best of both worlds.
We’ll prolly have our gas station turn into half gas and half electric then fully switch in a slow process
people: haha car go brrr
horses: *am i a joke to you?*
Back again from the future.
How do you do that?
XD
How tf did you do that..
Hes a minute earth member duh
This is the true first comment
@@amiyavatsa stop giving me away 😤
The Cabbage guy from Avatar the last airbender reference is just EPIC.
One of the biggest hurdles to electric at the moment is still battery life and charging speed... until those two hurdles are overcome adoption will most likely remain low. It’s not uncommon in some parts of the world to go for a 1000km drive in a day, and while you do also need to stop for gas, it is a 5-10 minute stop not a 45-60m one. Also the governments will probably need to step in an subsidize charging stations in more rural areas to have them get built, as really only urban areas has the population to make it cost effective while the 5-10% of vehicles are alternate power sources.
There is no part of the world where driving 1000km in a day is common. Range and charging speed is solved. Its a non-issue.
I do always appreciate a cameo by the Cabbage Merchant.
I would imagine that someone out there is looking into a way to retrofit giant capacitors to replace the buried tanks at gas stations, so they would essentially look the same. All we really need is to figure out how to transfer that much power in just a couple of minutes safely.
"In The Middle Of Difficulty Lies Opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
When i was watching this i was drawing the gengar Line
I don't get it?
Kay
Median daily miles driven for the US is 10. That means half the population could charge an EV at home (assuming they have a convenient electrical outlet) in under 3 hours.
I think the highway gas stations are going to be fine, they'll transition to rapid charger stations (or battery swap stations) over time.
However gas stations that mostly service local traffic could be hit hard by a transition to electric power since people will generally be able to recharge at home (or at a hotel). A percentage will probably survive as convenience stores, though I think we will see some close. But barring a crises that compels us to greatly accelerate the transition to electric, it won't be an all at once thing and it's not going to cause an economic crises on it's own.
I work at a company in the Netherlands that places charging stations, and I don’t think that converting gas station is going to happen on a large scale. You charge your car on a place were you are often and long, such as work or your home, because charging takes more time than refueling.
No one wants to wait at a gas station, so people won’t drive to a specific ‘gas station like’ place to charge their car. Only for long distances, such as a vacation, will those stations be needed. And those will be superchargers only.
Im not sure, electric cars pollute more than normal car right now* we are gonna have to see some real big changes to the cars, like the ford of electric, something cheap to make and efficient.
*(the mines required for their batteries are huge and dangerous and consume loads of power, also the electricity still comes from oil, even solar power requires coal and oil to make)
Ugh, 20 years for even a quarter of cars being electric? If that’s how it will grow, 2050 will be a hard net zero goal
We have to hope that e-fuels will come onto the market soon.
Even with a 100% adoption rate for new car sales, it will take a long time to phase petrol cars out completely.
If you really want to tackle emissions, eating less meat and buying food _and_ stuff produced domestically will probably have a bigger impact I think.
I think it depends on how short we can get the charge time. A station model works if it only takes 2-5 minutes to fully charge a car, you can imagine big HVDC cables hooked up to a car that charge the battery just like a fuel pump, or some kind of battery exchange mechanism. However if we can't get it under 10 or 15 minutes then a different model would be needed, instead of a few charge points you'd need a car park full of them, at a rest stop because people aren't going to want to wait around with nothing to do if charging takes that long. You'd also need more charge point at destinations like restaurants and shopping centres. Having charging at scheduled stops would be more important if it takes longer to charge, because people don't want to waste time.
“My Cabbages!”
The animation skill has come a long way. Congratulations! Id prefer the hand drawn ones every once in a while though. Maybe for special occasions?
1:15 Speed and power!!!
In a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everything drops down to zero. - Tyler Durden.
It's already happening. Many petrol stations already have EV charging spots.
An Avatar reference, man of culture right there. Best merchant of them all. *My cabbages*
Never thought I'd see an Avatar / Tron crossover picture, but I'm definitely glad I did.
I love their drawing style
1:28
Nice Tesla Reference
Some ev or energy company needs to buy one of the gas companies and replace half of the gas pumps with high speed ev chargers
Lol the pun at the end was great
THE GUY DRIVING THE CAR AT THE END IS THE “MY CABBAGES” GUY FROM AVATAR:THE LAST AIRBENDER!!!!!
There was neigh need for that pun at the end.
Love the Tron look of the last car :)
1:33
Car world : this is going to be our revolution!
Real world : ha, they thought we'd still use cars
2:51 The gas station looks like among us
MY CABBAGES!!!!
I think cars will become electric a lot more typically, until most cars are, since petroleum won't last forever. But things like trucks and cars meant for long distances will run on plant-based alcohol and biodiesel.
what about vodka power, it was even centralized in the Russian empire and is still today
i read online that electric cars really are not worth it and they do very little to help the environment.
The puns man😂😂
I love the cabbages reference
Person one: Hey, I heard you went on a 2 week vacation. How was it ?
Person two. We were only at the resort for 2 days, the other 12 days were at various charging stations for our electric car.
I use them to buy snacks and coffee, perhaps visiting the restroom while my car charges but since people will charge 99% at home or at the curb, I think they will go away in many places and be mostly on freeways and other travel corridors.
The home, parking garage/lot or curb side charging will be slow charging where it is important to have many plugs with lower kW since you will be parked there for many hours anyway and it is more important to be able to plug in than to charge fast. The ones by the “gas” stations will be high kW chargers.
for anybody wondering, at the end ( 2:30 ) the guy was saying: My cabbages!
Ngl I was ready to move to another video after the pun @ 1:16 cause I thought the video was ending 😅
Love that diesel truck disclaimer.
The conversion of gas stations to charging stations have already begun. Oil companies investing into charging stations companies have begun too.
As a Norwegian, those electric car statistics were depressing. In Norway, 1 in 3 cars bought after 2018 are electric. Not 1 in 40 like the US.
Except Norway isn't a good example. Norway to begin with is a rich country with affordable electricity. Most of your small population is contained in a relatively small area. In addition, your government has imposed crushing taxes on gasoline-powered cars and very healthy subsidies and incentives at buying electric cars.
Your government has thrown money at adopting green cars so you guys can feel better about getting filthy rich of off oil. Hardly noble of you to drive electric cars when your main export is crude oil.
@@TheOwenMajor
If all the countries which "got filthy rich" from oil would do the same as Norway than we would have less pollution and a smaller CO2 footprint.
This thought has been driving me crazy, perhaps I should steer away from it.
"My Cabbages!!" This channel just won all the things. XD
Nikola Tesla: I made electric motors popular
Elon Musk: hold my Model X
Nice pun the gas station life is very 'stable'
Also the other one of replacing horsepower with horsepower
The one twist here is that electricity use is very widespread. So you can just plug in your car to slowly charge overnight if you're not in a hurry. You can also attach car chargers to things like hotels, shopping malls and workplace parking lots without worrying about explosions or fires like you do with gas and diesel.
the "environmental" goal is to phase out fossil fuel completely by 2040.
the irreversable decline in petrol by 2030, at the latest.
gas station will have to hybrid towards something else
My grand grand father was the boss of a stagecoach company, and also a post relay in the XIX in the northern of Paris. He was also a wheel maker and a blacksmith. Then, the work evolved, he became a coachbuilder. My grand father took the business in charge, the workshop evolved in an auto garage until my grand father retired in 1967.
As someone who is the Assistant Manager of one, this is comforting :)
20 years why does everything takes so long I wanna see the future quick like in those science fiction movies.
In Vancouver, Westside property is so expensive that all the gas stations are gone now. Replaced by small tanker trucks that you call for curbside delivery. Gas is regular price with a $5 fee on top.
The landscape is peppered with gas stations, and this video is peppered with dad jokes
Is that electric car a Tron reference?
2:30 MY CABBAGE
1:14 HIS CABBAGES!
*MY CABBAAGGGEEESSS!!!!!*
A relative of mine is petrol station manager. She says nearly half of her daily revenue comes from hot-dogs and coffee and another 10-20% from other items in the shop.
Meanwhile in the future by minute earth....
Why are gas stations called 'gas stations'?
ngl my immediate reaction to the title is that it was referring to the lowered car usage during the pandemic. Ironically, my conclusion for this situation matches your conclusion for this video, even though I completely disagree with your conclusion for this video. Once electric cars are the dominant vehicle for travel, gas stations are screwed.
Developing countries would be keeping their combustion engine vehicles (and fuel stations) long after rich countries are dominated by alternate fuel vehicles.
Nice Avatar reference.
hehe the text bubble at the end
Did you make this video only to motivate the pun at the end? XD
Yeah, I assume most, if not all, current gas stations will start offering charging or other fuel options, and then increase capacity and decrease gas sales as the market shifts. Hopefully we'll switch a bit sooner rather than later though...
Yes
bruh dat cabbage man be like
Cabbage man at @1:14 and I LOVE IIIIIITTT!!!
You can’t fool me, that’s not an electric car. It’s a lightcycle.
We'll see how it will turn out. Maybe cars will have solar panels on top of them?
1:13 my cabbages!
Eighth?
I want to believe Bill Gates is involved in writing puns for those videos.
I love these puns
Puntastic ending!
2:31 my cabbages!
1:12 my cabbages
You guys are great CZcamsrs Keep on making videos