Management trend
Skylark, one of Japan’s leading restaurant chains,
will start to install chargers for EVs in its restaurants across the country for
free charging. In the initial stage, it will install them in 900 restaurants,
one third of its total restaurants, nationwide in less than five years. The
charging cost is estimated at several tens of yen per charge, and company bears
it. Skylark plans to absorb the cost increase by introducing LED lighting inside
the restaurant. Everyone can charge his car with the charger, even though he is
not a restaurant guest.
This is the first attempt of a national
restaurant chain to offer this kind of service. The charger to be installed
will be a standard charger of 200 V about tens of thousand yen a unit, but the
company plans to install quick chargers more than one million yen a unit as
well. The total investment is estimated at several hundred million yen. Convenience
store chains are also increasing the number of stores equipped with charger. The
leading five convenience store chains have already installed chargers in a
total of 52 stores.
Automakers are also busily increasing the
number of dealers equipped with charger. Toyota installed standard chargers in
1,200 dealers, while Nissan installed standard chargers in 2,200 dealers and
quick chargers in 400 dealers. Osaka Prefecture is constructing the “Osaka Infra System Service” network for better charging service in alliance with Enegate, a subsidiary of Kansai Electric
Power Company, Nihon Unisys, and Kanematsu.
The quick charger that Osaka is spreading for electric vehicles
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