Car companies like Honda, BMW, and Hyundai are banding together to build an EV-charging network bigger than Tesla’s Supercharger empire::Tesla has been building out its Supercharger network for over a decade. Now legacy car companies are taking a page from Elon Musk’s playbook.
Also cars that require higher octane can be slightly harder to find.
Even worse are the hydrogen fuel cell ones
Hydrogen is still likely to be a big part of vehicles going forward (either by combustion or fuel cell). Toyota’s been putting a lot of money into developing it and heavy transit is going to need it since batteries take up too much weight. Infrastructure will be much easier to build when they finally get to market, though. Converting gas stations to hydrogen isn’t terribly complicated.
Wait until gas they find out hydrogen is a gas.
Well, it may be liquid for use in vehicles.
Virtually every gas station in the US I’ve seen has 3 types of unleaded non-diesel.
Many high performance engines require higher than the 97 octane that most regular gas stations sell as their Premium. That doesn’t even count any vehicles that run on 85% ethanol.
I guess if you’re buying some exotic car that uses rocket fuel you either know what you’re signing up for or have enough money that you don’t care?
I just hit the button for cheap gas like a poor.
It doesn’t take some sort of import exotic to run best on high octane racing fuel. Your redneck uncle with a mid-80’s Fox body Mustang with the 5.0L V8 very well might have the engine tuned to run that gas.
Certainly it’s intentional, and certainly an enthusiast like that will be willing to put up with the headache of sourcing fuel, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a headache…
Many??
Name ONE mass production car that takes higher than 97 octane in it’s factory configuration.
I could have worded that comment a bit better.
I wasn’t trying to say there were an abundance of cars rolling off production lines taking a non-standard gasoline.
There is a large community of enthusiasts who have modified the engines in their cars to higher compression ratios and have tuned them to take higher octane fuel.