Why Germany is falling behind in EV infrastructure | Transforming Business

The only people who get range anxiety about EVs are non EV owners.

Germany don’t even have proper fast accessible internet. And you are asking why they don’t have proper charging infrastructure? Are u kidding me ?

Bureaucracy. That's it. The reason why Germany fails to get anything done.

Electric highways are a dumb idea: they cost a fortune to make and to maintain. We have roads full of potholes, which aren't that difficult to repair and prevent, what will happen to complex power electronics buried underground for kilometers? And the inefficiency of induction charging, where up to 25% of energy is lost to heat? Just deploy more fast charging stations with buffer storage to reduce strain on the grid

I already did buy two EVs and I will never but another combustion car. The first was an e-up in which we travelled from Dortmund to Corsica three years ago. Worked just fine! Now I am driving a chinese MG5 electric in which I did 51.000km in 20 months. I mainly charge from solar which on average costs around 1,50 Euro per 100km. But we also took the car to Catania, Sicily, Rotterdam, Denmark, Berlin and other places. It also tows trailers at a pretty great efficiency. Considering that my car charges quite slow compared to a real long range ev, the concerns depicted here are quite unfounded for Western Europe. Malfunctioning fast chargers are a problem of the past because you can easily get by using only destinations with ten or more stations, so you can always move to another one in the unlikely case. Next week I will be travelling to Munich which is 600km. That involves three stops, each taking 40 minutes in the MG5. With a Model 3 or an EV6 it would be one stop around 20 or 30 minutes.

The reason the rollout ofthe EV infrastructure is so slow is because the fossil fuel industry is donating large amounts of money to political parties to keep it that way.

Lousy report, no answers just more questions.

so if building a charging station is "more work than you think" what exactly is a wireless charging road going to be?? We need to be reducing the barriers to transition, not making it harder the new taxes on cars from China is the worst thing that could have happened If EU manufacturers can't get their act together, they need to live with the consequences

after 80k km driving EV's range anxiety is a myth

In Indonesia >80% EV charged at home. It is more convenient and cheaper. You will need a fast charging station only if you are going across cities. Having an EV is saving money, why should you charged at a charger that taking a profit if you can charge it at home cheaper? That is why EV cars are booming in Indonesia.

I've heard some of the issues that drivers of electric cars run into when they go on long distance vacations in Europe with their electric car. Here 's a list of things people run into: 1. The charger is broken when they arrive at the charger. 2. The charger is behind a fence that has been locked. 3. The charger is in a parking garage, but the parking garage is closed. 4. The charger is property of a hotel and only hotel guests can use it. 5. The charger only works if you have an obscure type of card or an obscure subscription for it. 6. The charger is occupied and there is a long line of cars waiting in front of it. If you arrive with a nearly empty battery at a charger in such scenarios, then that can be quite stressful. However the issue with all the special cards that you need to charge your car can be relatively easily solved by allowing people to pay with their debit or credit cards, just like at normal gas stations. There really is no need for 1000 different cards. Maybe the option to be able to pay with a debit and credit card at a charger should be made mandatory.

Funny that your report did not mentioned the cabling for EV trucks between Frankfurt and Darmstadt. Since it was built I have not seen any truck use it.

In other words drivers need to pay more

I bought an EV and drive happy with it since end of march '24. The big thing you missed is that there is an ongoing legal battle about the EV Charging on the Autobahns, preventing any real progress until this is settled likely in late 2024. So updates to this infrastructure will come next year. So far though in most places there are enough charging stations. Also recently a law was passed demanding that any of the large gas station providers has to offer fast charging on their gas stations until January 1st 2028. This weekend seems to see an outage of the local provider for AC charting ("Stadtwerke") or their provider. And these are often single points of failure for providing this type of infrastructure. Fast DC Charging is still available though.

Because it's Germany. You could also ask why do the bike roads feel like they're 40 years old, and being literally dangerous if you try to bike at any reasonable speed, at least in Berlin. 🙈

that is the thing about owning a plug in. i used to fill gas once a week without complaining. now i hate having to go to the gas station altogether.i am always trying to charge my battery to get even a few extra miles when i visit my folks.

7:49 PhD in "Electric vehicles"?! 🤓 That is even better than "Diversity Inclusion Manager" 😂

As a EV owner here in Slovenia I never had range or charging anxiety, since like me most of the people here daily drive just around 30-40 km

This video seems to be very outdated. A few years ago, broken charging stations were quite common, but I haven't encountered a single broken charger in the past two years. These days, reliability is nearly at 100%. That being said, I've visited many different countries around the globe and I can say without a doubt that Germany has one of the best charging infrastructures.

Most difficult country for electric car adoption is Canada where it's very cold in the winters, commuting distances are very long and cities are hours driving apart. Still, a few pockets in Canada has been slowly adopting electric cars like Toronto, and Vancouver.. Electric cars are almost unheard of on the vast Canadian Prairie provinces like Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan