It is important to take the costs of charging at public charging points into account when purchasing an electric car. Just as the fuel consumption of a car with a petrol or diesel engine is examined, it is also necessary to estimate how the battery of the electric car is charged and how much money this will cost per month. According to a study, Spain is one of the most expensive countries to charge an electric car.
If you have the opportunity to charge the car at home or in the garage, you just have to make a few simple calculations, taking into account the price of electricity and the hours of the day when you connect the car. Otherwise you have to estimate the price and cost of charging our car at a public charging point, where the prices are higher.
The cost of charging at public charging points for electric cars in Spain is among the highest in Europe, according to a study by OBS Business School . For example, this year’s data from RACE shows that charging the car in a public parking lot, for example in a municipality, costs between 8 and 20 euros for a 40 kWh battery. In the case of ‘electrolineras’, the price rises to between 6 and 31.60 euros depending on the type of charging we use.
Another problem is that the Spanish government does not properly check whether the charging points that receive subsidies are working properly. It is also the case that the charging points in Spain cannot all communicate with each other. This is the case in other European countries. This makes charging in Spain more expensive.
Charging points Spain
At the end of the first semester of 2023, there were 25,106 public charging points in Spain (an increase of 16.4% compared to last year). By the end of this year, these should have quadrupled to reach the 100,000 point goal. Despite this, the occupancy rate is still very low, on average 5.7%, compared to the number of electric cars registered in Spain.
2023-09-25 05:05:00
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