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Aldi will soon be asking e-car drivers to pay: electricity is no longer free

2022-05-19T13:51:21.739Z


Aldi will soon be asking e-car drivers to pay to recharge their batteries Created: 05/19/2022, 15:34 By: Jason Blaschke Free charging of e-cars at Aldi branches will soon be history. From June, the discounter will charge a charging tariff – regardless of whether you are a customer or not. Essen – Consumers in Germany are also feeling the sometimes massive economic consequences of the Ukraine w


Aldi will soon be asking e-car drivers to pay to recharge their batteries

Created: 05/19/2022, 15:34

By: Jason Blaschke

Free charging of e-cars at Aldi branches will soon be history.

From June, the discounter will charge a charging tariff – regardless of whether you are a customer or not.

Essen – Consumers in Germany are also feeling the sometimes massive economic consequences of the Ukraine war.

Many everyday products have become scarce and expensive - energy and fuel prices are also at record levels.

Experts in several sectors are even predicting further waves of inflation in Germany if nothing changes in the current situation.

Eckhard Heuser from the Dairy Industry Association (MIV) was very clear.

Aldi puts a stop to charging scroungers – no more free electricity from June

"With regard to butter, there are major changes - the rest is yet to come, by July 1, 2022 at the latest," the expert explained in an interview with BW24 with regard to the increasingly expensive dairy products in Germany.

How massively the price adjustments in supermarkets and discounters are affecting consumers in Germany only became clear a few weeks ago, when Aldi and Lidl adjusted their prices for many everyday products.

"It's all just a rip off," wrote one Facebook user.

But it's not just the groceries for which Aldi customers now have to dig deeper into their pockets.

From June 2022, customers will face even more costs - at least if they want to charge an electric car at a branch.

Until now, the electricity at the charging station was free of charge, which pleased customers and those who bought electricity in equal measure.

From next month this should finally come to an end.

Twitter user and tech YouTuber "TouchBenny" shared a photo showing relevant information from Aldi at a charging station.

company

Aldi

head office

meal

Sales volume

$106.3 billion (2019)

founding

1961, Essen

founder

Karl Albrecht, Theo Albrecht

Fixed tariff for e-car drivers: Aldi will charge per kilowatt hour from June

He tweeted: "Aldi Süd will introduce chargeable charging from June 2022!

For a fair price, I think.” Aldi charges 39 cents for a kilowatt hour (kWh).

You can pay with an EC or credit card.

However, a special app or charging card is not required.

According to Aldi, anyone who still has a charging card from another provider for e-charging stations can continue to use it.

However, the conditions of the respective tariff provider would then apply.

The discounter also wants to introduce the “Plug&Charge” option.

This is reported by the "giga.de"

portal

– there is no official confirmation from Aldi.

Plug&Charge is a relatively new payment method that works almost completely automatically once it has been set up.

The driver stores his data once for billing in the vehicle computer.

New technology planned for Aldi charging stations: "Plug&Charge" is to come

According to "all-electronics.de"

, if the car is plugged

into the charging station, this data is used for identification without the driver having to make manual entries at the charging station.

The prerequisite for this is that the electric car manufacturer has activated the function for the car.

Aldi is not the only discounter making a radical change to its charging stations.

Lidl also ended its free electricity offer for charging scroungers, an app is now necessary.

Aldi is also ending its free charging offer for e-drivers.

From June 2022, customers will have to pay 0.39 cents per kWh.

© Maja Hitij/dpa

Aldi's change is well received in the Facebook community.

"That's right!

Why should an e-driver be able to fill up for free?” writes one user.

"In my opinion, the price of 39 cents per kWh is fair," says another user.

But there are also a few voices that sharply criticize Aldi's project.

“What do you actually think?” writes a user to Aldi and adds that it obviously cannot get any more expensive.

Aldi price of 39 cents per kWh too expensive?

On Facebook, users argue

"It can't be expensive enough!" replies another Facebook user and at the same time refers to the low price compared to other providers.

According to

giga.de

, prices of around 50 cents per kWh are not uncommon.

Although the Aldi price increase from 0 to 39 cents per kWh is not without it, it is still significantly cheaper than some competing offers, writes the portal.

Source: merkur

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