Replacing a “classic car” with an electric car will become quite expensive: The price increase is extreme! However, you won’t be able to buy anything else soon – Bratislava.zoznam.sk

The recovery plan envisages millions of investments in charging stations for electric cars. SOURCE: TASR Radovan Stoklasa BRATISLAVA – It makes everything more expensive and the rise in prices is unstoppable. Energy, food, services, transport, travel. The situation on the automobile market is interesting, where electromobility is currently extremely popular at the expense of conventional combustion engines. The trend in this direction is clear and given. Electromobility is a current development trend to which the development of individual automobile transport in the European Union and Slovakia is adapting. New alternative sources of energy should gradually completely replace conventional combustion engines, which should cease to be produced from 2035, with the fact that you simply cannot buy a diesel or gasoline car anymore. But the reality is currently that electric cars are not popular in Slovakia. On the one hand, there is a lack of charging stations, the extremely short range of electric cars, and on the other hand, their enormous price, which is unacceptable and unacceptable for most Slovaks. This is also why the information according to which the prices of electric cars should have equaled those of vehicles with internal combustion engines by 2024, or by 2027 at the most, is not realistic. The renewal plan envisages investments of millions in charging stations for electric cars. SOURCE: TASR / Radovan Stoklasa As the portal topspeed.sk informs, the prices of battery vehicles have risen faster than cars with a combustion engine over the past year. Specifically, by 5,385 euros on average. According to the Center for Automotive Research, which analyzed the German market over the last year, which is also decisive for the Slovak one, the prices of electric cars have increased radically. “Tesla Model 3 increased in price by 8,250 euros year-on-year, Ford Mustang Mach-e by 9,000 euros, Fiat 500e by 6,430 euros and domestic Volkswagen ID. 3 for 2600 euros. By comparing a total of fifteen most popular electric cars, it became clear that from August 2021 to August 2022, customers will pay an average of 14.5 percent more, which in absolute terms amounts to 5,385 euros. This means, among other things, that the prices of battery vehicles grew faster than the prices of the best-selling cars with gasoline or diesel engines. They only increased by 12.5 percent, or in other words, by 3,531 euros,” the portal informs. At the same time, they add that the Slovak market is no different and the price development is the same. “Skoda Enyaq, which has increased in price by 9,210 euros since last year, Hyundai Ioniq 5 by 4,800 euros Volkswagen ID. 5 for 3700 EUR, Hyundai Ioniq 5 for 4800 EUR,” they state. This is also why the used car market is thriving in Slovakia, even though their price is also paradoxically rising. In addition,) prices of used cars, according to the estimates of the European online marketplace with used cars, will increase throughout the next year. A private investor wants to build charging stations for electric cars. SOURCE: TASR / Radovan Stoklasa “While previously the number of used cars increased annually by one to three percent in relation to the number of cars on the road, currently the number of advertised cars is the same as 12 years ago, when the world was swept by the global economic crisis. The situation is therefore serious and will continue to deteriorate. The automotive sector is one of the few segments that does not offer customers better prices during the Advent period. We can’t even hope for real discounts on used vehicles, which will ‘age a year’ from the first of January. Vice versa. There will be even fewer cars and they will be more expensive,” said Jakub Šulta from the Carvago company at the beginning of the year regarding the state of the used car market. People who postponed buying a car in the hope that prices will soon start falling again will have a problem. In addition, today, probably no one will buy an electric car, the price of which is at the level of 40,000 EUR and more, while the price ranges for a small battery car are at the level of 35,000 EUR.