这个地方加油站转换成充电站的速度很快

这个地方加油站转换成充电站的速度很快

Depeswar Doley stands in front of his newly renovated Electric Car Charging Station on Oct. 24. Doley owns RS Automotive, the first U.S. gas station fully converted to an electric vehicle charging center. The charging center opened a month ago in Takoma Park, Md.

10月24日，德佩斯瓦尔·多利站在他新装修的电动汽车充电站前。多利拥有RS汽车加油站，这是美国第一个完全转型成电动汽车充电中心的加油站。充电中心一个月前在马里兰州的塔科马公园开业。

The electric car industry is expanding, and at least one business owner is capitalizing on that growth. RS Automotive — the first U.S. gas station fully converted to an electric vehicle-charging station — opened a month ago in Takoma Park, Md.

电动汽车行业正在扩张，至少有一家企业主使这种增长资本化。RS电动汽车公司是美国第一家完全转型为电动汽车充电站的加油站，一个月前在马里兰州的塔科马公园开业绩。

A brand new blue and white sign reads EV charging, replacing where the dollar and cents gas price listings stood. From afar the station's electric chargers don't look too different from their predecessors. Some drivers still think they can still fill up their gas tanks here.

一个全新的蓝白相间的广告牌上写着电动汽车充电，取代了原来的汽油价格表。从远处看，该站的充电器与之前的加油站并没有太大的不同。一些司机仍然认为他们可以在这里加满油。

"A lot of them pull up and get upset," says owner Depeswar Doley.

老板德佩斯瓦尔•多利说:“很多司机停车后因为不能加油而沮丧。”

The honks, screeches and vrooms of morning traffic are going strong during a recent visit to the station, but Doley says business has been slow. Over the past week there have been approximately eight to 12 charging sessions per day, according to Matthew Wade, CEO of the Electric Vehicle Institute.

最近一次去充电站时，汽车的喇叭声、尖叫声和早上的交通流量越来越大，但是多利说，生意一直很清淡。据电动汽车研究所首席执行长韦德说，过去一周每天大约有8到12次充电。

Still, interest is growing.

尽管如此，人们的兴趣仍在增长。

Every week Doley fields calls from gas station owners who are considering replacing their pumps with chargers. Others are EV-enthusiasts wanting to visit the station, some hailing from as far as Maine.

每个星期都有加油站老板打来电话，说他们正在考虑把油泵换成充电器。还有一些是电动汽车爱好者，他们想要去充电站，有些人甚至从缅因州赶来。

There are about 40 types of electric cars people can buy right now, Dan Bowermaster, with the Electric Power Research Institute says, but within four years there will be closer to 120 on the market.

美国电力研究所的丹•鲍默马斯特表示，目前人们可以购买的电动汽车大约有40种，但在4年内，市场上的电动汽车将接近120种。

"Not only is that a much bigger number than what's on the road today," says Bowermaster,"but a third of those will be crossovers and SUVs, and that's what we Americans are buying."

鲍默马斯特说：“这一数字不仅比现在路上的车要多得多，而且其中三分之一将是跨界车和越野车，这就是我们美国人正在购买的东西。”

Doley is willing to wait. He's owned the station and repair shop since 1997. After 20 years of bad contracts, changeable oil prices and convenience store break-ins, Doley says he decided to shut off the gas pumps. He took out a personal loan out to remove the station's underground storage tanks. The plan was to just keep the repair shop open.

多利愿意等待。他从1997年起就拥有这家车站和维修店。在经历了20年的糟糕合同、油价波动和便利店进入盗窃后，多利说他决定关闭加油站。他以个人名义贷款，把车站的地下储油罐搬走了。他的计划只是让维修店继续营业。

Then, Doley got a call from the city: would he want to transform the station into a fully outfitted charging center? The offer came with a $786,000 grant to pay for the conversion — a combination of state funding, and money from the Baltimore-based Electric Vehicle Institute.

然后，多利接到了来自市里的电话:问他想把加油站改造成一个设备齐全的充电中心吗? 这项提议还提供了78.6万美元的资金，用于支付转换费用，这笔资金由国家拨款和巴尔的摩电动汽车研究所提供。

His 17-year-old daughter Teresa pushed him to take the leap. She hopes the station eases drivers charging anxieties.

他17岁的女儿特蕾莎鼓励他迈出这一步。她希望充电站能缓解司机的付费焦虑。

"I think it's kind of encouraging people to get EV's, a lot of people don't want to get electric vehicles, because they're worried that they're not going to be able to charge them," the teenager says. "And I think that if you make it more available, then people are more likely to want to try it."

“我认为这会鼓励人们购买电动汽车，很多人不想买电动汽车，因为他们担心无法给它们充电，”这名青少年说。“我认为，如果你让它更容易获得，人们就更有可能想尝试它。”

As more and more affordable EV's roll out in the next few years, there will be more demand for public charging centers, Bowermaster says.

鲍默马斯特说，随着未来几年会推出越来越多的电动汽车，公共充电中心的需求将会增加。