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by TheLoafOfBread 1207 days ago
From my experience taking charge on Ionity for 0,79EUR/kWh means that it is more expensive than gas. And because I just moved to another country, and live in apartment, I don't have place to charge.

Thing is that there is more than 50% people in EU who has no place to charge at home, because they are living in apartments. SO they will be charging on expensive Fast DC chargers. It will be more expensive than owning an ICE and also massively less comfortable because you will be waiting on car to get charged, thus wasting your time.

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Yeah, granted, this is a problem indeed. My 8 years payback time is based on off-peak charging at 0.15EUR/Kwh at home.

You typically have less car ownership in cities though...

How many people will be able to charge at work in 12 years?
About the same as today. Roughly 0.

Why should it be even the case? Why should employer pay for building chargers, maintaining it and paying bills?