Assuming that a suitable fast charger is available, this can easily translate into a waiting time of 15 minutes instead of an hour or longer to complete a decent charge-up of your vehicle while on the road. Some BEVs can recharge with 150 kW or more while most others are limited to a much lower charging power (Figure 1). Only later in the selection process, after I had already test driven some of the BEVs I had initially identified, did I also start caring about recharging speed. Applying these two subjective filter criteria of mine, a purchase price below 50k EUR and an electric range of more than 300 km, the list of suitable vehicle models turned out to be around 20, many of them variants of a platform. Even though I expect mostly to take trips of less than 100 km, I feel safer knowing that I could still make it to one of the beaches on the Baltic Sea (about 300 km distance from Berlin) without having to recharge. I am a case in point: aside from purchase price, my key criterion was the electric range of the BEVs on offer. Generally, consumer studies indicate that aside from purchase price, electric driving range as well as charging opportunities and charging times are among the key concerns of potential electric vehicle owners. Consumer websites, such as, a European Union funded project in which ICCT is one of the scientific partners, turned out to be tremendously helpful for this initial selection process. The first step for me was to get an overview of the BEV models on offer and to filter and rank them based on my personal criteria. And while I have been working on electric vehicle technologies and electric vehicle policies for the past several years, it is an entirely different experience to go through the process of finding, registering, and operating an electric vehicle in practice-as well as an excellent reality check that I would like to share with the interested reader. As is the case for almost all of us, this is the first electric vehicle I have owned (the first car of any kind, in fact).

I myself am one of those new BEV owners, having registered my own vehicle back in August this year.

In November 2021, 20% of all new passenger car registrations were battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The share of electric vehicles in Germany keeps steadily increasing.

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