The idyllic vision of electromobility is getting very serious cracks. According to some, it basically ends, and even before it really started. The current situation has fully illuminated the problems associated with it. And the price of electricity is only one of them, albeit the most visible. But other problems may come soon.
Inconvenient refill
One of the great advantages of electric cars, apart from the fact that they are obviously free of emissions locally, are the low operating costs resulting mainly from the low price of electricity. As if everyone thought a year ago that electricity had to be cheap forever. No one could have imagined that prices would go down the way they did.
Today, electricity is about four times as expensive as it was a year ago and is likely to become more expensive for customers. If you still have such a tariff, you can charge an electric car at home for about half what it would cost you to drive a car with an internal combustion engine. But as you can see, the difference is far from being as diametrical as before.
However, a much bigger problem occurs in public charging stations, which need to be used from time to time. After all, they are the only ones where the only possibility is a faster recharge, which takes about an hour and not many long hours as in the case of recharging at home. As Seznam Zprávy’s server informs, in these charging stations the running costs of electricity and internal combustion engines are already balanced.
There may be a lack of electricity
And then there is the fact that you have to go abroad with an electric car and charge it at the stands of foreign companies. For this purpose it is usually necessary to have a car manufacturer’s card, which allows you to recharge in a very large network. However, as Josef Vrtal of the Autosalon show reports, they will be paid accordingly. For example, in Germany, the Netherlands or Norway, you’ll pay a lot more for electricity than if you just filled up.
In some countries where electric cars are widespread, there is also talk that their charging will have to be limited in some way, as they could overload the network and cause power outages.
Some experts therefore already speak of electromobility as a blind development branch, the main problem of which is that it is being pushed hard as the only possible solution instead of finding a place on the market on its own. Greater hopes are placed, for example, in hydrogen.
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