{"id":16152,"date":"2025-07-10T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/2025\/07\/10\/electric-car-or-combustion-engine\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:20:37","slug":"electric-car-or-combustion-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/2025\/07\/10\/electric-car-or-combustion-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric car or combustion engine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is driving with charging current really cheaper today than filling up with fuel, as is still often claimed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to spiegel.de very clearly: NO!!!<\/p>\n<p>This was recently reported by Der Spiegel:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/auto\/elektroauto-laden-oeffentliche-ladesaeulen-laut-bericht-oft-teurer-als-benzin-a-6ec3d039-c3b6-416d-90df-5518822eee86?sara_ref=re-xx-cp-sh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Expensive electricity, little competition: e-car drivers now often pay more per kilometer at public charging stations than when they fill up with petrol. This is the result of an analysis commissioned by a green electricity provider (&#8220;Lichtblick&#8221;).&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good thing that it will probably remain cheaper to continue driving a combustion engine car for the time being &#8211; and what&#8217;s more, it can already be run on synthetic fuels with greatly reduced CO2 emissions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is driving with charging current really cheaper today than filling up with fuel, as is still often claimed? According to spiegel.de very clearly: NO!!! This was recently reported by Der Spiegel: &#8220;Expensive electricity, little competition: e-car drivers now often pay more per kilometer at public charging stations than when they fill up with petrol. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-fuels-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}