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The entire article is 100% bullshit and has nothing to do with EV per se. All you need to do is look at general electricity prices, which have been going up, not down, especially in the countries that have the highest renewable rate (Denmark or Germany). https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Line-graph-of-average-el...

Once electricity prices start collapsing and battery capacity issues are resolved, I'll start believing the story.

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Here in the UK the price of petrol has gone up more than 50% in the past 20 years. So long as electricity is increasing in price more slowly its still more attractive as a fuel source.

I imagine that has more to with taxes than anything else. Adjusted for inflation, petroleum is quite low compared to it's price over much of the last 3-4 decades.

The underlying cause doesn't make any difference to the consumer though. If you're saying people don't want electric cars because the cost of electricity is increasing you have to weigh that against the cost of alternatives, and electricity is still better.

Time is not an axis in the graphs you linked, so they don't support your statement.

Neither Denmark nor Germany have the "highest renewable rate" of the countries listed on that graph. Denmark is 4th and Germany is 17th in the EU.

Germany always had very high electricity prices. Even if you eliminated the renewable surcharge it would still have higher prices than Belgium.

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