Will a quota on electric vehicles help to increase their numbers on German streets in a sustainable manner? Image source: Shutterstock (#500229640)
Maria Krautzenberger, head of Federal Environment Agency, has called for a sales quota for electric vehicles in order to achieve the country’s climate agreement targets. Citing the examples of California and China. In order to reach the CO2 reduction goal for traffic for 2030, she estimates that there is a need for around 3-12% of EV fleet in the country by 2020, further increasing to 30-32% by 2025 and 60-70% by 2030. Citing the examples of California and China, she said, ” Germany has consciously set climate protection goals, which we have to achieve because of global warming. A target of 12 million electric vehicles is an ambitious goal, which we won’t reach if we rely solely on the car industry. That’s why we need to give carmakers a quota.”
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