[Thlom]

In Norway there’s a few charges at every mall and parking garages, a lot of grocery stores also have charges in the parking lot. Many of the gas station chains have started to adapt by installing charging stations and remaking the store inside to more of a fast food shop/coffee shop with a few tables and places to sit etc.

If you need to charge on the road then most rest-stops and fast food restaurants along the main roads have charging stations installed.

[godelski]

Yeah these same things exist in most American cities, especially in the West. But a big difference in America is the population density. America is almost all empty. Yeah, Europe has a lot of sparse areas, but remember that the landmass of America (contiguous) is 8e6 km^2 while Europe is 10e6 km^2 while US has that between 350m people and Europe between 750m people. Lose 4e6km2 and 143m people if you want to remove Russia (which itself is sparse, a bit more than the US). I'm saying this because what happens in the US around transportation infrastructure is going to be __substantially__ different than what happens in Europe. There's always people saying "well Europe does X why can't the US" but you can't drive for 10hrs in Europe without passing through a major city while you can do that in just Texas[0]

That's why I specified the middle of nowhere ones as the "interesting" ones. The mall one, like Norway, was explicitly stated.

US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_population_map.png

Norway: https://popdensitymap.ucoz.ru/news/174_population_density_ad...

Germany: https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/624149000030978048/g...

Europe: https://citymonitor.ai/environment/these-maps-reveal-truth-a...

[0] Play around, you'll find constant 8hr+ drives between "major" cities. Cities which aren't very large, especially in middle America https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Dallas/Las+Cruces,+NM/@32.24...