“There is always a socket somewhere”

According to Marco Voigt, he is living proof that an electric vehicle makes sense even if you regularly drive long distances. The entrepreneur has already covered more than 30,000 kilometres within a year with his Audi e-tron Sportback. What has changed for him now he owns an electric car? ‘I hang out at charging stations a lot,’ says Voigt, who runs Greentech Festival and the Green Window Agency from the Berlin-Mitte district. ‘That doesn’t bother me, it’s just part of it.’ Having meetings, answering emails, listening to music, drinking coffee – he always puts his charging time to good use. Voigt has long since ceased to worry about not finding a charging facility on long journeys. ‘The way the charging infrastructure on motorways has developed in recent years is amazing,’ he says. He almost always finds a charging station – but ‘almost’ is the operative word. Once, he recalls, he was stranded in a village, with the battery of his car almost empty. ‘I saw an old lady standing in front of her house and asked her if I could use her socket,’ Voigt recalls with a grin. ‘That was one of my funniest experiences with the e-tron.’ He sat with the elderly lady in her garden and drank coffee while his car was charging. ‘There's always a socket somewhere,’ he says.