Romania has one of the highest tariffs for fast charging electric cars in Europe, namely EUR 0.43\/kWh, at the same level as Austria and almost double compared to Spain or Croatia, although the wholesale price of energy is not the highest in the EU, according to an analysis signed by the president of the Smart Energy Association, Dumitru Chis\u0103li\u021b\u0103.<\/p>\n
According to the cited source, the difference is explained by the lack of competition in the ultra-fast charging station segment and by the commercial strategy of operators who treat Romania as a transit market, with low volume and weak negotiating power.<\/p>\n
The analysis showed that Romania\u2019s wholesale price of electricity is below the EU average, but still, electric car users pay among the highest fast-charging tariffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the result of a deliberate commercial strategy,\u201d said Chis\u0103li\u021b\u0103, cited by Agerpres<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the absence of a constant flow of local users, investment and operating costs are recovered through a higher price per kWh. In other words, a few pay a lot, instead of many paying a little. This economic logic is easy to understand from the company\u2019s perspective, but hard to accept for consumers. Especially when the comparison with other countries in the region is inevitable,\u201d the document states.<\/p>\n The president of AEI emphasized that Romania does not yet have real competition in the area of ultra-fast charging stations, unlike markets like Hungary or Poland.<\/p>\n \u201cThe regional pricing policy practiced by Tesla treats Eastern Europe as an area where investments must be amortized quickly, because the risks are considered higher due to slow adoption of electric cars, legislative instability, and modest road infrastructure. All these are \u2018embedded\u2019 in the final price paid by the driver,\u201d Chis\u0103li\u021b\u0103 mentioned.<\/p>\n According to him, Romania entered directly into the monetization phase, without benefiting from the advantages of a mature market. Prices will only go down when competition is real, the analyst concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n (Photo source:\u00a0S<\/a>am74100|Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Romania has one of the highest tariffs for fast charging electric cars in Europe, namely EUR 0.43\/kWh, at the same level as Austria and almost double compared to Spain or Croatia, although the wholesale price of energy is not the highest in the EU, according to an analysis signed by the president of the Smart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}