Oil-giant Shell is teaming with a Munich-based venture company to start installing charging stations in 10 European nations. The agreement will initially have charging points put in at 80 of Shell’s biggest highway fuel stations, with an average of six posts in each. Best of all, the charging points take only five to eight minutes on average to fully charge an electric vehicle.
Shell to install rapid-charging stations across Europe
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