Varta (battery manufacturer): Electric vehicles? Not suitable for everyday use.

Surprising interview with the president of Varta, a battery and accumulator company. In his opinion, electric vehicles are not suitable for normal use. All because of their high prices and long loading times. Varta is part of the European Consortium for Cell Development, but this list of shortcomings was not followed by the words “We have a solution to this problem”.

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Herbert Schein, the current President of Varta, commented on the Saturday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In his opinion, people do not want to buy electricians because they are expensive, they have a bad range and their batteries take a long time to charge. According to him, such vehicles are not suitable for normal use.

Schein's claim is quite true, electric vehicles have some childhood problems that combustion cars do not. No one in their right mind would mind this. And yet there are people who buy them, and usually at least 80-90 percent say they will never go back to noisy, slow, archaic combustion cars again.

> Study: 96 percent of electricians will buy an electric car next time [AAA]

Today Varta is one of the pillars of the European "Battery Alliance", which develops the industry of electrical components on our continent. Receives large grants for research. Therefore, one would expect that after this not very optimistic introduction, the president of Varta would make a classic turn: "... but we have a solution to all these problems, because our elements are Li-X ..."

Unfortunately, this is not the case. Varta is ready to manufacture lithium-ion cells for electricians, but is clearly not satisfied with their performance. As if the German tycoon sensed that the Asian-American competition in this area looked much better (source).

ING Bank warned in 2017 that problems with the transformation of the automotive market could arise in Europe:

> ING: Electric cars will be in price in 2023

Introductory photo: Diagram of an AGM (c) Varta lead-acid battery

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