The future belongs to e-cars. Sooner or later you will have to say goodbye to your combustion engine. I personally wanted to do that soon. At the moment, however, there are several reasons preventing me from doing so, although I am still fired up about the topic.
Buying an e-car: why I prefer to wait
Actually I was standing a few months ago shortly before buying an electric car. It should be a Renault Zoe. Unfortunately, another buyer came before me and snatched my desired configuration from under my nose. Happens, because the car market is currently massively overheated. New cars do not reach buyers because chips are scarce. Used cars are therefore in great demand and often sell out quickly if you don’t make a decision right away. In the meantime, I’m a bit glad that it didn’t work out right away. This is for the following reasons:
- Loading situation: I will only be able to install my own wallbox in 1-2 years. This is simply because I have to convince the community of owners to be able to build a parking lot with charging facilities. At your own expense, of course, but the area belongs to the community after all. Maybe we’ll build several parking lots at the same time. I would be entitled to this according to the current legal situation, but that still requires some persuasion, obtaining permits from the city and cost estimates. Anyone who currently needs a craftsman knows the problem. All are fully booked for months. If you then want to carry out even larger construction work, it often takes much longer.
- Electricity prices: Within just a few months, electricity prices have literally exploded. I can currently consider myself lucky that I pay less than 30 cents per kWh. At the moment, no one knows how long this will remain so. Accordingly, it is currently simply not possible to calculate how high the costs per 100 km with an electric car would be. Of course, the price of diesel keeps going up. But new customers pay more than 70 cents per kWh for some basic supplies. And if you then consume 20 kWh per 100 km with the electric car, you quickly end up with 14 euros. With my diesel I currently drive for well under 10 euros per 100 km. That’s why I’m waiting to see where the electricity prices will stabilize.
- charging network: If I already had an e-car, I would have to rely on the public charging network. When I tested the Kia EV6, I saw that, in my opinion, it was basically well developed. But they are all different providers. Everyone cooks their own soup with different prices, basic fees and so on. You have absolutely no perspective. If you make just one mistake, you’ll pay a fortune at the store. Something clearly has to change – or you drive a Tesla. But there are hardly any superchargers here on the North Sea. But that can still change.
Such a Tesla Model 3 would also be on my short list:
How do I proceed?
Personally, I’ve decided that I’ll wait and see how the three points mentioned above develop. Of course I want to protect the environment with an e-car, but it also has to remain affordable. That’s why I will willy-nilly continue to drive my diesel and wait and see how the situation develops. It won’t get any cheaper either, because the CO2 tax will continue to rise. However, we are still within an acceptable range here. The price of diesel will not more than double overnight. Given the price of electricity, I would no longer put my hand in the fire in the current situation.
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