Wednesday, March 24, 2021

An Inconvenient Truth: How Will Convenience Stores Survive the Conversion to Zero-Emission Vehicles


Let’s talk about electric vehicles … and convenience stores.

What do the two have to do with each other? Quite a bit, it turns out: the majority of convenience stores in the U.S. are either part of a larger gas station or offer fuel services themselves. If GM achieves its recently announced goal to convert its manufacturing output entirely to electric vehicles (EVs) by 2035, that will shake up and transform the convenience store industry in ways only few have begun to imagine.