[WorldMaker]

Relatedly and further off-topic, I still love how the now often thrown around term "range anxiety" shows up in early literature too but it was originally reversed to how people brandish it about today: early EVs had a reliable range that you knew before you set out and could be charged just about anywhere. Internal combustion was rife with inefficiencies (fuel lossage among them) and available range wasn't always obvious and early fuel gages weren't always reliable and finding sources of fuel relied on lucking into the right sorts of pharmacists/chemists. One of the original reasons for the founding of the AAA (American Automobile Assocation) was "combatting range anxiety" by getting fuel to cars stopped on the side of a road.

[rootusrootus]

At some point we could return to the original meaning, as gas stations become less profitable and less prevalent. It's far easier to have an EV with no public charging than it is to have a gas vehicle with no public filling stations.

[WorldMaker]

I agree and have gotten into some interesting debates for suggesting that not only do I think it likely, that I think it will probably snowball a lot faster (and wilder) than a lot of people expect. (Gas pumps are already weird margin "loss leaders" for other businesses such as convenience stores or supermarkets. Expecting a closure snowball seems reasonable once demand starts to really shift in favor of EVs.)

[lesuorac]

I think really just non-urban places will be in trouble.

There is no way gas stations on highways are going to close down in the next decade. But if your highway wasn't popular enough to currently have service stations at their rest areas then I don't have much hope your gas stations outside those areas.

Of course this does mean that you might have to drive ~40mins roundtrip to fillup your gas.