Shell converts historic German station into EV charging site
The bold and futuristic 1960s architecture of Erlenstegenstrasse’s petrol station in Nuremberg has been given a second life thanks to the Shell Recharge brand.
Drivers can now charge their EVs under the curved, listed prestressed concrete roof from 1958. As a national industrial monument and the only one of its kind in the whole of Bavaria, the site will no longer offer petrol or diesel.
The site will feature a total of four Shell Recharge ultra-fast charging stations with 8 charging points, offering a maximum output of up to 300 kW and up to 150 kW for simultaneous charging. Two of these are located directly under the historic roof.
In a small store under the roof, coffee and drinks vending machines will be installed.
The service station itself was originally built in 1958 by the California-Texas Oil Company Caltex, with a design that dates back to 1956 by the Frankfurt architect Willy H. Weisensee.
Caltex originally planned to build 4,000 filling stations of this type but by the end of the 1960s, there were only over 800 Caltex sites in operation throughout Germany. The filling station was taken over by DEA and later reflagged to Shell.
