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posted by martyb on Sunday June 07 2020, @08:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the plugging-electric-vehicles dept.

Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany said it will oblige all petrol stations to offer electric car charging to help remove refuelling concerns and boost consumer demand for the vehicles as part of its 130 billion euro ($146 billion) economic recovery plan.

The move could provide a significant boost to electric vehicle demand along with the broader stimulus plan which included taxes to penalise ownership of large polluting combustion-engined sports utility vehicles and a 6,000 euro subsidy towards the cost of an electric vehicle.

Germany's announcement follows a French plan to boost electric car sales announced last week by President Macron.

"It's a very clear commitment to battery-powered vehicles and establishes electric mobility as a technology of the future," energy storage specialist The Mobility House, whose investors include Daimler (DAIGn.DE) and the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, said.

"Internationally this puts Germany in the leading group of battery electric vehicle support."

As part of the government stimulus, 2.5 billion euros will be spent on battery cell production and charging infrastructure, a field where oil majors, utilities and carmakers, including Shell (RDSa.L), Engie (ENGIE.PA) and Tesla (TSLA.O), are vying for dominance.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @10:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @10:45PM (#1004635)

    > Battery electric vehicle are inferior to ICE with liquid fuels

    wut

    > governments have to bribe and coerce people into using them

    wut??

    In the urban centres near me, consumers are demanding more EV than ICE vehicles, and we stopped having any EV subsidies in 2018. The only reason there aren't a few thousand more Teslas (specifically) on the road here, this year and last, is that Tesla literally couldn't produce and deliver them as fast as people wanted to buy them.

    Is it because of fuel costs? Usage patterns? Environmental aspects? Social standing (Tesla's cheaper than Lexus and more prestige, here - there's no big Chevy Volt shortage)? I don't know.

    > Electric vehicles need something better

    See above.

    I can only conclude you are so hyperfocused on energy density that you overlooked the many, many other factors impacting rapidly growing EV popularity.