There’s a huge difference between charging in town while you’re out for other things, and refueling while on a longer road trip.

If you’re in town with an EV, you theoretically never need to charge because you all have a full battery when leaving your house.

If you’re stopping after three hours on a longer trip, then you’ll likely need to attend to your biological needs at the same time, including just walking around and stretching your legs.

They mention it in the article. Exoskeleton that adds resistance in specific ways for rehab. No reason why it couldn’t work for training resistance.

It might be clearer to say it’s more like your house wiring, instead of a power strip.

This is almost exactly how outlets are Daisy chained through a run.

Basically you have a homelab where every device is plugged into the next outlet along a wall, with each outlet being really close together.