The owners of electric cars have to go into their pockets if they want electricity. Free strom as 'a good service' basically no longer exists.
Free electricity for electric cars is over. At least in most places.
Otherwise, it was not very long ago that everything from car dealers to supermarkets enticed with free electricity for electric cars in order to keep customers just a little longer. Or make them come again.
This is what Auto Bild writes on the basis of an investigation by Cologne's retail research institute.
But now that electric cars have become more widespread, so have charging stations. And then the people in the electric cars have to pay for it too.
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In February, 75 percent of grocery stores in Germany had charging stations. However, 76 percent of these stores charge for electricity, while only 4 percent will still give it away for free.
7 percent of retailers limit the current so that it is only possible to charge if you are a customer in the store. In 2021, electricity for electric cars was free at 29 percent of all German supermarkets.
It is especially more expensive energy and high costs for the electricity itself that make the supermarkets cut off the free charging.
FDM pointed out already in 2022 a similar development at home. Free charging disappeared in several places in line with the energy crisis that year. Something that also made petrol and diesel outrageously expensive in the summer of the same year. In fact, the price per liter was well over 20 kroner.
Speaking of energy, there are many indications that the EU is behind the fact that both petrol and diesel are once again becoming outrageously expensive. This is due to a new quota system, which must be introduced in all 27 member states of the union.Read more about it here .
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