Electricity prices are exploding: what happened to the promise that battery vehicles should not only be more environmentally friendly, but also cheaper than combustion engines?
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Christina Kunkel
From eco-crazy to crisis winner – this is how the emotional state of many electric car owners should have looked in the spring of 2022. Soon after the start of the war in Ukraine, the prices for petrol and diesel shot up to unprecedented heights, combustion engines backed up at the petrol stations near the border Abroad because the drivers wanted to save at least a few cents per liter. In the spring of 2022, it looked as if the promise of electric mobility, which is not only less polluting but also significantly cheaper than its fossil counterpart, would actually be kept.