The secret sauce that's driving gas stations to install EV chargers

It might seem the last thing gasoline retailers would want to do. But you'd be wrong.

(A native of England, veteran journalist Matthew Diebel has worked at NBC News, Time, USA Today and News Corp., among other organizations. Having spent much of his childhood next to one of the world's fastest bodies of water, he is particularly interested in tidal energy.)

If you drive, say, from New York City to Columbus, Ohio, they are at almost every …