“Whoever wants an e-car has to wait a long time”
Die Welt
Despite the lacklustre success of the buyers’ premium for e-cars in Germany, delivery times for electric vehicles remain long, reports Thomas Imhof in Die Welt. Buyers of the global best-seller Nissan Leaf had to wait up to six months until recently, the Renault Zoe takes five months to arrive, and a BMW i3 around three months. Car industry expert Stefan Bratzel, from the Center of Automotive Management, told the author the long delivery times were one of the factors slowing demand. He added that manufacturers tied e-car production much tighter to orders than was the case with conventional models.
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