Rising electricity prices discourage consumers from buying electric cars. Image: Wikimedia
Consumers are reportedly being deterred from buying electric cars by the continued rise in electricity prices
In view of the sustained upward trend in electricity prices in Spain at an unprecedented level and the achievement of historical values - in July, the blame for this on the 8th are the international gas prices and CO² emission rights, which have driven the upward trend in recent months with the lower share of renewable energies in the mix.
Simultaneously with these price increases, the government is offering its subsidy program under the Moves III plan, which has reportedly resulted in a significant increase in sales of electric and plug-in cars thanks to the support it offers when purchasing these types of vehicles.
However, according to the National Association of Property Managers, the current Spanish energy system is not fully prepared enough to meet the government’s pledge to promote and implement the use of electric vehicles without increasing energy prices.
In the case of steadily rising electricity prices, the association points out that “the state has no control capacity to protect consumers. So if the government cannot guarantee access to energy at reasonable prices under the current system, how can a policy of higher electricity consumption be promoted without taking supply and price protection measures for consumers?
They continued, “We understand that if the government continues to boost electricity consumption without taking urgent measures to protect prices, the price of electricity will be even more prohibitive and unrealizable for a domestic economy, causing and increasing families’ economic energy poverty cause and allow only the wealthiest strata to have limited access to energy, while the most disadvantaged social strata in our country are suffocated ”.
The association has also stated that if the state is unable to guarantee access to energy at reasonable prices, it should not encourage measures to increase electricity consumption until it can guarantee that all consumers have access to affordable electricity Have prices.
“We are all aware that we have to fight gas emissions and pollution, with a policy to protect our environment and the opportunities our country has to produce clean and renewable energies, but Spain is not currently.” to drastically increase the consumption of electrical energy without this means a price increase for the population ”, they concluded, as reported by sevilla.abc.es.
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