As Joachim Sander looks for a new car, he’s thinking it might be time to go electric. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will need the help of the Frankfurt IT consultant — and a lot more like him — to keep her word.
Three years after Merkel said she wants to see 1 million battery-powered cars on German roads by 2020, there has been scant progress: On Jan. 1, only 7,114 of Germany’s 43.4 million passenger vehicles were electrics. Even adding hybrids powered with both electricity and conventional fuels brings the number to just 72,109.
“Our plans and projects are ambitious, but we have a good chance of fulfilling them,” Merkel said at a government conference on electric vehicles in Berlin.
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