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I think there is more to this. In Sweden OK/Q8 their main chain of gas stations is installing chargers at many station and more coming every day.
Similar in Denmark.
the business model does seem to own out. Germany sells nearly as many EVs (as a %of all car sales) not sure why the progress is slower in Germany.
There are some stubborn car/ICE centric cultural and commerce cliques in Germany. Perhaps this is a response to them? But I feel there is more to it than meets the eye.
In Germany a lot of charging stations are built by the electricity grid operators. So they usually end up on parking lots of stores or near municipality buildings(a lot of them are owned by the local municipality). Howver neither puts up some big signs to really advertise it. So it is easy to miss them, even when using a navgation system. Like there should be one on the parking lot, but it is behind the building or some weird stuff like that.
That being said there is easily enough of them to cover the country.
How? I mean, a satellite navigation system can get you within a meter or two of the destination.
If the current navigation systems don't list precisely the location of the charging stations, that seems more like an issue with the databases.