Fastned Opens Charging Station That Makes Many Gas Stations Jealous – CleanTechnica


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You may know me as the Grumpy Old Man down in the comments. What is less known: I am also extremely lazy.

For all the visitors to the opening ceremony of Fastned’s first charging station complete with convenience store, children’s playground, and outside sitting area, they made large panels with everything there is to tell about the station, and then some. So, I toke photos of the panels and you can read them.

Panel 1 - Fastned in Belgium - EN
Panel 1: Fastned in Belgium
Panel 2 - Sustainability - EN
Panel 2: Sustainability
Panel 3 - The futures already here - EN
Panel 3: The future’s already here.
Panel 4 - Charging trucks - EN
Panel 4: Charging trucks
Panel 5 - Designed for people - EN
Panel 5: Designed for people
Panel 6 - Retail - EN
Panel 6: Retail
The toilet worth visiting just to be amazed
The bathroom, worth visiting just to be amazed.
Panel 7 - About Fastned - EN
Panel 7: About Fastned
Panel 8 - Did you know - EN
Panel 8: Did you know …
Panel 9 - Gentbrugge_map
Panel 9: Gentbrugge map

Looking around, I took some more pictures.

First, the inside of the convenience store:

Fast food counter open from 7:00h to 21:00h
Fast food counter open from 7:00 to 21:00.
Entrance 24/7 open makes me happy
Entrance open 24/7 makes me happy.
Waiting for the first guest to arrive for the opening party
Waiting for the first guest to arrive for the opening party.
Proudly announcing this station offers more than electricity vending machines to charge your car
Proudly announcing this station offers more than electricity vending machines to charge your car.

Absolutely unique at a charging station for cars: place for three of the biggest trucks to charge at the same time. It is prepared to install MCS (Megawatt Charging System, the CSS version for trucks) when the trucks are ready for it.

Three 18 wheeler truck charging bays
Three 18-wheeler truck charging bays.

With these relaxation and picnic places, Fastned should also offer some slow level 2 chargers.

Pick-nick places
Picnic places
and more Pick-nick places
… and more picnic places.
Children playground
Children’s playground

To sum it all up, the drone operator provided an overview pic.

Bird's eye view of the best charging station (for now).
Bird’s eye view of the best charging station (for now).

BTW, the Fastned photographer is the well known CleanTechnica contributor Chanan Bos.


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