Distress for some customers: Aldi ends a popular offer
Created: 05/20/2022, 18:01
By: Patrick Freiwah
Charging station for electric cars - here at Aldi Süd in Stuttgart.
© IMAGO/Arnulf Hettrich
Aldi and Co. are a popular place to go for charging an electric car.
However, this option will soon be a thing of the past at the discounter.
Mülheim/Munich – Fuel prices in Germany have been at record levels for weeks, and electricity costs have also been increasing lately.
There is more bad news for e-car drivers: A (further) free way to charge your electric car is disappearing from the scene: at Aldi.
Because free charging at discounters will soon be a thing of the past.
Gradually, companies will end the option for their customers (and other people who use the option).
From June, Aldi Süd will no longer provide charging stations free of charge.
In 2015, the discounter was one of the first shops to offer its customers the opportunity to charge their e-car for free while shopping.
Currently, electricity can be refueled for up to one hour.
Aldi competitors such as Lidl followed suit.
REWE is building a mega-infrastructure with the Shell and EnBW groups so that customers can also recharge their batteries there.
However, this will not happen for free – and the step at Aldi has also been foreseeable for some time.
Aldi: No more free charging for e-cars - that will cost electricity in the future
Free electricity will soon no longer be available there.
A spokesman told t-online
that Aldi Süd will ask its customers to checkout at the charging stations in the future
.
The discounter now also shows an indication of this on the displays of its charging stations, as evidenced by recordings on social networks.
And what will the electric car shop Aldi cost in the future?
The kilowatt hour is said to be offered for 39 cents.
Aldi is still cheaper than the competition, according to the
inside-digital.de
portal, a kilowatt hour costs between 45 and 79 cents in this country.
Can Aldi keep this low price longer?
Numerous providers - such as Tesla - had recently raised the electricity prices for charging.
In addition, some experts see a danger to the power supply:
Charging an electric car at Aldi: This is how it will work in the future
Incidentally, a charging card is still not required at Aldi Süd: the car is connected via cable and then paid for by EC card, credit card, or Google or Apple Pay.
If you still want to pay with a charging card, you do not pay the cheap charging rate from Aldi Süd, but the corresponding price of the provider.
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Incidentally, Aldi customers should also be able to charge their electric cars outside of opening hours in the future.
Accordingly, it is planned that the charging stations will be available between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., some even around the clock!
Another extension concerns the loading time: the limit of one hour will also allegedly be dropped.
Meanwhile, Lidl has an electric car on offer - but the offer only seems cheap at first glance.
(PF)
