Now we will not talk in detail about tax incentives, free parking, maintenance and other things, but we will focus on the most banal point – charging. Not so long ago, during the testing of the Chinese “electric train”, the AvtoVzglyad portal started with simple arithmetic and shed a tear.
So the terms of the problem. If the battery capacity of the car is 72 kilowatt hours, the range is 350-400 kilometers and the car consumes about 19 kilowatt hours of energy per 100 kilometers, how much will a hundred kilometers cost us?
We stopped by for fast charging and looked at the tariff – 22 rubles per kilowatt. We multiplied the indicators among themselves and got a figure of 418 rubles. For the sake of interest, we are doing a similar operation for a car with an internal combustion engine. The average fuel consumption is 10 liters per 100 km. The cost of one liter of gasoline (AI-92) is about 48 rubles. We multiply and get the result – 480 “wooden”. Not such a big saving is obtained and certainly incomparable with the initial price.
We are sure that now there will be a lot of comments on the topic of charging at municipal stations and from household networks: there, they say, it is definitely cheaper. Yes, this is true, only over time the process will take hours. As for the municipal stations, not everything is sweet here either.
Two years ago, the Government of the Russian Federation prepared an interesting “Concept for the development of production and operation of electric vehicles in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030”, which contains not only production plans, but also data on the future of the charging infrastructure. On paper, in black and white, it seems that at least 72,000 charging stations will be launched in Russia by 2030 (of which 28,000 will be fast). We can say with confidence that no one will let them use them for free – too tasty a bite.
By the way, there are about 15,000 conventional gas stations in Russia – almost five times less than the planned number of gas stations! But the toll plazas are likely to be followed by the elimination of free parking and tax breaks. Electric cars are becoming popular, there will be more of them – why, you ask, deprive the state budget of serious financial income?
It will not work to hide behind the Western experience – everyone pays everything there and for a long time. In the US, charging an electric car costs a lot of money, and the bill is different – somewhere you pay for kilowatts, somewhere – for the time of use.
As for Europe, the German authorities recently announced their intention to limit the charging of electric cars in private homes: in a few years, German motorists will no longer be able to use home chargers at their own discretion. Officials will impose a charging ban during rush hour and the charging time itself will be limited to a few hours. In other words, the German government is forcing people to use public channels, which already have completely different, absolutely disastrous rates.
An interesting situation also developed in Norway: initially, citizens were encouraged to buy electric cars in every possible way: free parking, free charging, zero tax (remember something?). But once electric vehicles took up half of the market, the government took drastic action — tax refunds, first and foremost.
Now the owner of a “green” car has to pay 25% of the cost of his iron horse annually. Here, of course, we need to make a change – cars costing 600,000 kroner (a little more than four million rubles) are taxed, but there are a lot of such cars in Norway. For example, the price for the Tesla Model Y, which has become a local sales leader, is about 700,000 kroner (4.9 million rubles) …
By the way, our compatriots may have a mistaken idea that electric vehicles are not taxed in Russia. This is not completely true. If, for example, in Moscow and a number of other regions there really is a zero rate, then in Chelyabinsk, for example, the tax must already be paid. The amount is set according to a simple formula – the engine power is multiplied by the value of the regional tariff. To be clear, here are the numbers.
Suppose you buy a Jaguar I-Pace with a 234 hp electric motor. The rate for the same Chelyabinsk in this case is 75 rubles per horsepower. The total tax amount is 17,550 rubles. Do not forget about the luxury tax, when a multiplier is applied to the amount of transport tax.
Yes, now it covers cars worth 10 million rubles or more, but the price tags for a number of electric cars exceed this limit. So in some cases, to get a chance to own a progressive vehicle out of your pocket, you need to lay out several hundred thousand wooden ones every year.
Now we will not talk in detail about tax incentives, free parking, maintenance and other things, but we will focus on the most banal point – charging. Not so long ago, during the testing of the Chinese “electric train”, the AvtoVzglyad portal started with simple arithmetic and shed a tear.
So the terms of the problem. If the battery capacity of the car is 72 kilowatt hours, the range is 350-400 kilometers and the car consumes about 19 kilowatt hours of energy per 100 kilometers, how much will a hundred kilometers cost us?
We stopped by for fast charging and looked at the tariff – 22 rubles per kilowatt. We multiplied the indicators among themselves and got a figure of 418 rubles. For the sake of interest, we are doing a similar operation for a car with an internal combustion engine. The average fuel consumption is 10 liters per 100 km. The cost of one liter of gasoline (AI-92) is about 48 rubles. We multiply and get the result – 480 “wooden”. Not such a great saving is obtained and certainly incomparable with the initial price.
We are sure that now there will be a lot of comments on the topic of charging at municipal stations and from household networks: there, they say, it is definitely cheaper. Yes, this is true, only over time the process will take hours. As for the municipal stations, not everything is sweet here either.
Two years ago, the Government of the Russian Federation prepared an interesting “Concept for the development of production and operation of electric vehicles in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030”, which contains not only production plans, but also data on the future of the charging infrastructure. On paper, in black and white, it seems that at least 72,000 charging stations will be launched in Russia by 2030 (of which 28,000 will be fast). We can say with confidence that no one will let them use them for free – too tasty a bite.
By the way, there are about 15 thousand ordinary gas stations in Russia – almost five times less than the planned number of gas stations! But the toll plazas are likely to be followed by the elimination of free parking and tax breaks. Electric cars are becoming popular, there will be more of them – why, you ask, deprive the state budget of serious financial income?
It will not work to hide behind the Western experience – everyone pays everything there and for a long time. In the US, charging an electric car costs a lot of money, and the bill is different – somewhere you pay for kilowatts, somewhere – for the time of use.
As for Europe, the German authorities recently announced their intention to limit the charging of electric cars in private homes: in a few years, German motorists will no longer be able to use home chargers at their own discretion. Officials will impose a charging ban during rush hour and the charging time itself will be limited to a few hours. In other words, the German government is forcing people to use public channels, which already have completely different, absolutely disastrous rates.
An interesting situation also developed in Norway: initially, citizens were encouraged to buy electric cars in every possible way: free parking, free charging, zero tax (remember something?). But once electric vehicles took up half of the market, the government took drastic action — tax refunds, first and foremost.
Now the owner of a “green” car has to pay 25% of the cost of his iron horse annually. Here, of course, we need to make a change – cars costing 600,000 kroner (a little more than four million rubles) are taxed, but there are a lot of such cars in Norway. For example, the price for the Tesla Model Y, which has become a local sales leader, is about 700,000 kroner (4.9 million rubles) …
By the way, our compatriots may have a mistaken idea that electric vehicles are not taxed in Russia. This is not completely true. If, for example, in Moscow and a number of other regions there really is a zero rate, then in Chelyabinsk, for example, the tax must already be paid. The amount is set according to a simple formula – the engine power is multiplied by the value of the regional tariff. To be clear, here are the numbers.
Suppose you buy a Jaguar I-Pace with a 234 hp electric motor. The rate for the same Chelyabinsk in this case is 75 rubles per horsepower. The total tax amount is 17,550 rubles. Do not forget about the luxury tax, when a multiplier is applied to the amount of transport tax.
Yes, now it covers cars worth 10 million rubles or more, but the price tags for a number of electric cars exceed this limit. So in some cases, to get a chance to own a forward-thinking vehicle out of your pocket, you need to lay out several hundreds of thousands of wooden ones every year.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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