High electricity prices in Germany brakes electric cars

Due to high electricity prices in Germany, electric cars in this country are most difficult to pay for their high acquisition costs over the years. According to an evaluation of the management consultancy Horvath & Partners, the spending on driving current in Germany is average 7.70 euros for 100 kilometers. One kilowatt-hour electricity costs average in Germany ahead of 30 cents, even in 2001 it was only 13.5 cents. At our European partners are the electricity costs for 100 kilometers on average currently only at 4.40 euros. Chinese pay for 100 electrical kilometers even only 1.90 euros.

Although electric cars have an advantage over gasoline and dieseling, thanks to significantly lower costs for maintenance and wear, which lies in the range between 60 and 80 percent. Because of the high consumption costs, however, this advantage is shrinking. “If in Germany, the high electricity costs for mobility do not decline, consumers lack a priced incentive to switch to an electric car,” says Dietmar Voggenreiter, Partner at Horvath & Partners and in an earlier position at Audi for the Chinese market, Written the study with Georg Mrusek. The construction of its own cell production for electric car batteries in Germany is not useful in the current electric mix of cost and climate gangs, so voggenreiter.

At public charging columns, electric car drivers have to accept even higher prices. On fast load columns, it is partly a good 50 cents for a kilowatt hour – FLOTTES charge will be quickly at the cost trap.

Finds Voggenreiter, Germany is not optimally prepared for electromobility due to the high electricity prices and the high coal flow content and thus quite climate-damaging current mixes on the electromobility. Nevertheless, a “steep increase” of the new registrations of electric cars is imminent, “which will lead to a sale of at least one million streams and a market share between 35 and 40 percent by 2030,” says Voggenreiter. By 2035, Horvath & Partners should have electric drive after each second vehicle approved in Europe.

Voggenreiter even goes off even far more numbers: “Most of the car fleet is operated as a battery vehicle,” because the EU becomes narrower with the years the CO2 limits. It’s not different because: “The situation, climate change, is crushing,” says Voggenreiter. However, only with lower electricity costs can be created another, important incentive for customers to embrace an expensive electric car. An alternative to electric cars to reduce climate-damaging CO2 emissions, but will not exist as fast as the analysis of the management consultancy.

Even worse, cost and climate balance are off when the vehicle is operated with hydrogen or e-fuels, so Horvath & Partners. In a holistic view of fuel cell cars, the efficiency is only a good third of that of a pure electric car: of 100 kWh regeneratively generated electricity ends only about a quarter of the energy on the wheel, quoted Edison out of the stude. For e-Fuels, the energy balance is even worse because the synthetic fuel has to be expensive to generate with the help of regenerative energy. To operate a vehicle with e-fuels, the fourfold amount of battery cars are needed.

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