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EV Boom – Automakers Raise Prices by Up to 6,000 EurosYes, who would have thought it? EVs are experiencing a massive boom. 
Customers are rushing to battery-powered cars like to warm double rolls made from an old GDR recipe. The warehouses of the auto giants have been bought empty. The waiting times for a coveted electric car aren’t quite as long as they used to be in the GDR, but customers now need a great deal of patience. Naturally, the manufacturers are cranking up the prices—by as much as 6,000 euros. You can make good money with products that are in hot demand. No wonder Diesel-Dieter and Gasoline-Petra are pretty stunned right now. The run on EVs … Oh! Oops! Um… I guess I misunderstood something. Federal Government Wants to Promote the Purchase of EVs and Hybrid Vehicles for Private CustomersThe federal government has decided to make many billions in tax money—our money—available to promote the purchase of EVs and hybrids with large batteries for private customers. Up to 6,000 euros are to be offered. Automakers are to be supported because EVs obviously don’t trigger storms of enthusiasm among private buyers. Internal-combustion cars are still cheaper. EV batteries continue to lose capacity over the years and charging cycles. The charging infrastructure is not available to a sufficient extent. Charging prices at public stations vary widely, are opaque, and sometimes anything but cheap. Charging times of around 30 minutes and more from 10 to 80 percent battery capacity are nothing for those who are in a hurry. And if you stand at a charging station for longer, some providers already charge additional parking fees so that the sometimes scarce spots aren’t occupied too long. You really have to be careful not to stand at an EV socket for too long. That ranges drop significantly in winter isn’t exactly great either. On many models the top speed is limited to the level of a Wartburg 353 from GDR times so the small battery isn’t drained too quickly. You constantly have to ask yourself: Where do I still need to go, is the state of charge enough, will I manage to get the battery sufficiently charged before departure? For longer trips you don’t need travel planning, you need battery-charging planning: Where is an intermediate stop necessary, with how much remaining capacity will I arrive at the destination, and where will I find another socket at the destination?And yes: That is clearly progress! Period! End of story! Despite all these outstanding product features—only malicious tongues would speak of disadvantages—the federal government now wants to promote EV purchases with up to 6,000 euros and probably hopes to prop up the suffering automakers, who, thanks to the policies of the much-loved leaders, brought EVs to market readiness at development costs of many billions—EVs that private customers don’t really want. The subsidy is to cost three billion in tax funds—for all of us. Does that mean that if the neighbor suddenly owns a new EV, I’m allowed to drive it too, since I partly paid for it? Asking for a friend.The amount of the subsidy is to depend on income and the size of the family. Now they want to enable the not-so-well-off to acquire electric cars. The car dealer will presumably be presented with pay slips, all bank statements, and certificates of poverty—and the children will have to be shown. This Is the Big Difference to Socialism Like in the GDRBecause in socialism politicians decide what people need and which products should therefore be made. In the FRG, in the free market economy, that is … um …Outcry from the EV Fanboys and FangirlsYes, now Electro-Markus and Stromer-Mirjam will probably cry out and explain that EV batteries are being developed that can be charged faster. That may well be true, but they aren’t installed anywhere at the moment. What that will actually look like in the future, nobody knows. Besides, the charging station being used has to be able to provide those current levels as well.And yes, there are EVs with many hundreds of horsepower that aren’t limited already at 130 km/h. However, the prices for such vehicles are in a range that hardly any supermarket cashier with children can afford. And yes, there are supposed to be cheaper EVs, such as the Dacia Hipster. Spartanly equipped and—apart from the fresher design, airbags, and a few safety features—close to the Trabant 601 Deluxe. In a crash with a big SUV, the chances of survival would probably be as mediocre as in the Trabant. But at least the Trabant, with over 2.8 million units, was a bestseller. Zwinger-smiley. And yes, there may be use cases in which EVs make sense and have advantages over combustion engines. But in a free market economy it shouldn’t be politics that decides this, but the informed citizen. The auto industry then, as in the past, orients itself toward what customers want and doesn’t have to develop products that miss the realities of many people’s lives and are disadvantageous. A Lot of Money Burned by Politically Engineered ProblemsSo politics has once again created problems that cost the economy and citizens a lot of money. And the solutions to these problems that politics envisions cost citizens a lot of money again. Yeah, right?Oh, sorry! I need to correct myself: It’s no longer called “problems,” it’s called “challenges.” And when someone asks again why school meals still aren’t free or why hefty fees are still charged for daycare, the answer is: Because EVs are more important to the much-loved leaders! Author: AI-Translation - Maximus Polemikus | |
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