Germany will give 4,000 Euros to buy electric cars - Green Ecologist

Germany will subsidize the purchase of electric cars with 4,000 Euros.

The strongest economy in the euro zone is taking the sale of electric vehicles in its territory.

Germany just announced a new push to increase the clean transportation. Vehicle buyers will see a discount on electric vehicles of 4,000 euros and a discount on hybrids of 3,000 euros. In addition, the country will invest in installing more vehicle charging stations throughout the territory.

The government and manufacturers of automobiles they will share in the cost of the rebates, which are only available on cars that cost less than € 60,000. With total aid that will amount to 1,000 Billion.

"With this, I believe that we will be able to give a boost to quickly move the number of vehicles (sales) to a considerable level"said Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.

Recall that Germany has a fairly high goal by 2022 (More information here) of one million electric vehicles on German roads by 2022. Currently, only around 50,000 electric vehicles sold have been registered, so there is a long way to go ahead and really little time.

Since the U.S they have also tried to increase the number of electric vehicles on their roads (In the United States, transportation accounts for about a quarter of total emissions, second only to the electricity sector) although with some drawbacks attributed to low gas costs that have been cut in half throughout the Obama presidency (In general terms, low gas prices discourage consumers from buying electric vehicles.). Remember that there are currently 400,000 electric vehicles out of a total of 250 million cars - trucks in the United States.

The big ones automobile companies established in the United States are announcing that the majority of their fleet will soon have the hybrid version and new electric vehicles, such as Volvo, or the all powerful company Head who recently presented his expected low cost electric model (More information here).

As many professionals point out … “Electric vehicles are only part of the solution. The electricity to charge them must come from renewable energy sources »

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