with fuel at €1.72–€1.74/L, EVs make more sense than the cheap gas sold in North America. But, as EV fleet numbers increase, petrol prices will increase because of less volume sold and petrol stations will be rarer. Petrol drivers will start getting range anxiety.
That is going to take years. Petrol stations already have the infrastructure and mostly make their money from the small store and not selling petrol. Germany and most of Europe are densly populated, so refineries shutting down, is not going to cause that much of a logistics problem either. Sweden and Finland might see that happen though, due to being less densly populated.
It would require a massive drop in ICE cars on the road to increase petrol prices in a country like Germany. I very much doubt it is going to happen in the coming decade.
BEV sales in France are 20% of cars sold and in Germany it is 19.1% in 2025. So it is pretty similar, but Germany has had much faster growth recently, so it is very possible that this is going to change this year.
It‘s almost as if this heavily generalizing portrayal of Germans through a French lens is rather… emotional. Heh.
It’s a genre in France. Lazy stereotypes about Germans. I think Germans have many lazy stereotypes about Brazilians. Passing it on :)
What would Europe be without French/German love-hate relationship.
with fuel at €1.72–€1.74/L, EVs make more sense than the cheap gas sold in North America. But, as EV fleet numbers increase, petrol prices will increase because of less volume sold and petrol stations will be rarer. Petrol drivers will start getting range anxiety.
That is going to take years. Petrol stations already have the infrastructure and mostly make their money from the small store and not selling petrol. Germany and most of Europe are densly populated, so refineries shutting down, is not going to cause that much of a logistics problem either. Sweden and Finland might see that happen though, due to being less densly populated.
It would require a massive drop in ICE cars on the road to increase petrol prices in a country like Germany. I very much doubt it is going to happen in the coming decade.