Germany must double annual e-car registrations to reach 2030 target of 15 million – researchers
Clean Energy Wire
For Germany to reach its self-set target of 15 million electric vehicles on the road by the end of 2030, at least double the amount of new e-cars than in 2022 will need to be registered every year from now on, said the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Wuerttemberg (ZSW) in a press release. Around 830,000 new entirely electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars were registered in Germany in 2022, said the research institute, bringing the total to almost 1.9 million. The largest increase in new registrations worldwide was in China, where the number almost doubled to 6.5 million new electric vehicles, which corresponds to a share of over 60 percent of new registrations for electric cars worldwide, said ZSW. The institute added that German carmakers like VW, BMW and Mercedes have been overrun by the pace of e-mobility expansion. These companies were “traditionally strong in China with combustion engine cars but relatively weak on e-cars,” said ZSW.
The share of newly registered battery-powered electric cars met the level of registrations of diesel cars in Germany for the first time in 2022, thanks to strong sales in anticipation of subsidy cuts, figures from transport authority KBA had shown at the start of the year.
