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Germany Will Require All Petrol Stations to Provide Electric Car Charging

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

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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 Monday June 08 2020, @11:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 08 2020, @11:35AM (#1004792)

    Is it like penis anxiety?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S [wikipedia.org]


    100 kWh (360 MJ)
    348–390 mi (560–628 km) (EPA)

    Looks to me like a regular car with a regular gas tank. And you need to refuel that every few hours because you drive and drive like a fucking idiot? 90+% of people would refill their car maybe once a week and now you can do it everyday. Yet still have phobia over this... NOT logical.

    200kW+ chargers are popping up near autobahns already,

    https://www.allego.eu/business/high-power-charging [allego.eu]

    At Allego, ultra fast charging allow e-drivers to add a range of 125 to 250km to their car in just 10 minutes.
    With maximum power of up to 350kW via a cooled cable, we proudly presents this fully connected flagship charging station.

    That's 58kWh in-power during that 10 minutes which charges a Tesla-S nicely from 25% to 75%.

    Anyway, I'm glad we are finally waking up and moving to electric. We badly need better air quality.