Filed under: EV/Plug-in, MINI, Legislation and Policy, Germany
According to a report from the Associated Press (via Drive.com.au), Germany is about to get serious about electric cars. How serious? Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet is currently drafting a plan that would aim to put a million electric cars on German roadways by 2020.
To meet that lofty goal, a series of financial incentives are reportedly on the table that would start in 2012. It’s not clear as of yet what these stimulus packages would include, but specifics are to be announced in the fall. We’d expect manufacturers, suppliers and consumers would all get some sort of incentive thrown their way to build or purchase EVs.
It’s no secret that German automakers like Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW have lagged well behind Asian and American automakers in electric and hybrid vehicle production, largely focusing instead on diesel technology. BMW’s first MINI-based EVs are currently undergoing large-scale testing and Daimler recently teamed up with Tesla Motors in America to advance its EV presence.
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[Source: Drive.com.au]
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