Vattenfall, Fortum wants 90 dollars for full-electric vehicle tank – New Technology

Now the power companies’ charm offensive against electric car owners over. Having previously been free to fast charge electric car it costs now 90 dollars for 30 minutes to “full tank” of Vattenfall, Fortum. “Too expensive,” says electric car owners.

     From free to 90 kronor charge. There are new direction for the electric vehicle refueling from Vattenfall and Fortum. Photo: All over the press
     

     How much does a quick charge (click to enlarge). Graphics: Jonas Askergren

– I personally think that it should only cost half as much as Vattenfall, Fortum wants to fast charge, says Örjan Hedblom, editor of the newspaper The electric car in Sweden, to new technologies.

Also the organization of Green Motorists are critical to the two largest electricity companies in Sweden now started charging for electric car electricity.

– This announcement comes at a time when electric car sales are stalling at low levels, says Martin Prieto Beaulieu, spokesman for the Green Motorists.

He says that for those who load its electric car with Vattenfall and Fortum quick charger, it will at best be just as expensive to run on electricity, petrol or diesel. At worst, twice or three times as expensive, depending on the charging effect, charger and car model.

Also magazine We Bilägare reasoning in the same way. The magazine has a BMW i3, a pure electric vehicle according to the newspaper needs to be recharged approximately 50 minutes in fast charger to run tio mil.

– It will be an expense of SEK 15 per mil, or about twice as much as a gasoline-powered car of the same size. To download the corresponding current home costs less than SEK 20, writes We Bilägare.

Both Vattenfall and Fortum fast charger has an output of 50 kW the Japanese standard CHAdeMO and the European Combo standard CCS. Both provide DC power directly from the pole to the battery.

A third variant is also available for AC load with a power of 43 kW.

The rule of thumb is that a snabbladning from empty battery to 80 percent full charge takes approximately 30 minutes. To fully charge to 100 percent is not recommended because it takes a relatively long time for the last 20 percent.

Vattenfall, Fortum has stopped identical price lists when it comes to quick charge.

• Quick charge 3 crowns per minute.

Fortum also has a price list for semi-rapid and slow charge.

• Semi Quick charge of SEK 1.50 per minute.
• Normal charging 5 kronor per hour which means about 8 cents a minute for a “full tank”.

Än so far only Vattenfall, Fortum that charge for fast charging. Local utility companies in connection with the Green Highway in Jämtland and along the electric car road E6 and nearby areas still to this panel.

But it is probably a matter of time before it costs everywhere.

Öresundskraft in Helsingborg, in cooperation with the Danish Clever during the year to put up with 35 quick chargers ABB along the E6 and E4 partially funded by EU money.

But it will cost to refuel.

– Yes it is not free. But we have not set any prices yet, says Christer Nilsson, project manager for major investment.

But to charge a Tesla Model S will always be free, promises Tesla founder Elon Musk. The price of electricity is already baked into the price of the car.

Tesla built at breakneck speed up a network of own fast charger in both Europe and North America. So far it has installed nearly 100 so-called Supercharge pillars at 13 locations in Sweden. There are as many as the number of CHAdeMO and CCS together.

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