It is clear that according to the current plans of the European Union, in the long term, electric vehicles represent the only future of the automotive industry. After all, the European Parliament has already approved an agreement according to which, until 2035, diesel and petrolcar sales in the EU must be stopped.
Electric vehicles certainly have unheard of advantages.
Their distribution is only useful for protecting the environment, since they do not emit harmful substances. However, at the moment, the electric car is still an immature technology in many respects. After all, it cannot give you the freedom that, say, a gasoline car can.
Many people, when trying to estimate costs, give up when they try to figure out how much a gas station will cost. While gasoline can be bought at the same price almost everywhere, and it’s easy to calculate how much we have to pay per kilometer, in the case of electric vehicles, there are many variables that can affect the final price.
Let’s start with how long the charge lasts depends on the number of packs and the use of air conditioning: for example, cooling can reduce the range by 20 percent. In addition, many important questions arise: is it possible to spend time at home? If so, can we solve this problem economically, say with a solar panel?
Or not, and maybe because of this we exceed the limit of the given overhead energy consumption?
The gap between Tesla’s promises and reality is often very large, but this is a question that this manufacturer has deftly addressed. They have their own network of charging stations, making the price of charging much more transparent. Unlike other stations, there is no need to download various applications here: their chargers are easier to use.
This was told to vesző.hu by Gabor Varkoni, an expert in the automotive industry, a dealer and a car buying consultant.
Buying an electric car is not really an option for those who can only rely on charging networks and cannot charge their electric car at home or at work.
Frequent use of lightning-fast chargers is harmful to the battery, and when charging slowly, it is not advisable to use the stations all the time,
their number at the end of last year amounted to 2147 people, which is 14 percent more than a year earlier.
“At home, many potential customers are waiting. On the one hand, new government subsidies can come at any time, which makes their use more cost-effective, so it is not advisable to invest in an electric car now that the subsidies have ended. dried up. On the other hand, it is difficult to calculate the loss in value. If in a few years better battery cars appear that already give drivers more freedom, they can be driven further and may be easier to charge,
then the value of older models will drop,” says Gabor Varkoni.
He added: The current problem is that there is no demand for large, more than 15 million electric vehicles, which are preferred by manufacturers. Now the demand for electric vehicles, which cost half as much, will be even greater.
According to Varkoni, this segment should not be supported by subsidies. Technology must be able to stand on its own feet without government interference in market competition. Sales tend to grow best where there is strong support: in Norway, electric vehicles accounted for about 80 percent of new cars sold last year.
It is precisely because so many subsidies have been introduced that it is cheaper to buy an electric car than a gasoline one.
When we asked Varkoni if the days of gas-powered cars were numbered, he replied: on a global level, of course not.
It is also unclear whether the 2035 target date will be maintained in Europe and whether the continent will indeed switch to full electric vehicles.