“Buyer’s premium turns into flop”
Frankfurter Rundschau
The German buyer’s premium for electric cars agreed in spring has flopped - but the government still believes it’s too early to judge the scheme, writes Thorsten Knuf in Frankfurter Rundschau. Economy state secretary Matthias Machnig wrote in a reply to a question by the Green Party that the premium will have a stronger effect once the charging infrastructure is more extensive. “If the government continues like that, it will miss its target of one million e-cars by 2020,” writes Knuf.
Read the article in German here.
For background on the buyer’s premium, read the CLEW article Federal government decides on 4,000 euro buyer's premium for e-cars.
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