Gas Station Research Paper

Even with the stock market reaching its all time high last week, there is only a small proportion of people who shop without thinking about price. When in the grocery store consumers look for goods that are on sale. When in a retail store, consumers of all ages turn to Amazon or other discount online shopping stores through their smartphones to find products at better prices. When a driver has less than a quarter of a tank of gas, they begin to plan out where they will fill their tank and time and time again, drivers will choose the gas station just down the road where they can save one or two pennies a gallon. In addition to consumer's desire to save money, recently, there has been a movement to conserve energy, limit our world's use of greenhouse

In most cases, the driver can safly make it to a gas station before their vehcile stalls from lack of fuel and if they are not lucky enough to make it there, then they find their way on foot to the nearest gas station or they call for roadside assistance to get enough fuel in the car to get it running again. Now, the electric car market domain is asking consumers to picture themselves is the very same situation, only this time, their car is powered only by electricity. There is likely no roadisde assistance that came come and rapidly replace the power in your electric battery and instead of having a gas station every couple of miles, there is a charging station all the way on the other side of the city. For many consumers, this hurdle alone is enough to stay away from an electric vehicle. But once consumers do take the plunge, they are going to want to know that the technology at local charging stations works rapidly to give them a boost to their next stop. Right now, the majority of charging stations take "30 minutes to recharge the Model S to [170 miles] of range". (Professional Engineer, 2015) In an effort to correct this problem and the fear and anxiety that could be caused from a lack of charging stations on major travel corridors, auto makers Volkswagen and BMW teamed up to install 100 charging stations in the United States, to compliment that 20,000 already installed. (Tilley, 2015) The installation of these stations may begin to make drivers more comfortable with the idea of purchasing a plug-in car. The market domain has a great deal of work to do on this front if they desire to increase their presence in the