The E-cars and the CSU: no, Yes, Yes?

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The E-cars and the CSU: no, Yes, Yes?

The SPD calls for incentives for electric cars, the CSU transport Minister rejects that, while the Munich CSU already with Audi and BMW negotiated. Get the topic of E-cars in Germany new momentum?

Federal Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel is in the area of electric mobility getting impatient. The former Minister of the environment wants to be with inducements to buy necessarily the lackluster sales of electric cars in Germany a boost. “We have to decide: do we Want the goal of one Million electric vehicles in 2020?”, said Gabriel of the “Rheinische Post”. The Federal government carry this goal finally, since 2009, like a monstrance in front of them. “Then we need a market incentive programme as Kaufprämien or tax incentives. If we do not, we should be honest and let go of this goal to say goodbye,” said Gabriel.

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Gabriel had recently a Kaufprämie of 5000 euros per electric car brought into the game. Conversely, he wants the industry to bring, that is also in Germany again in the production of batteries is invested. Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt of the Bavarian CSU declines by Gabriel demanded Kaufprämien. Also Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is when the subject is restrained.

Surprise from Munich

World turned upside down: While CSU transport Minister Dobrindt, the Gabriel Initiative refuses to close completely surprising his party from the government of the free state of Bavaria, the SPD demand for a premium for the purchase of electric cars. The Minister of economic Affairs Ilse Aigner of the Christian social Union said that she wanted to work together with the Bavarian automakers BMW and Audi have a corresponding incentive on the way.

The Bavarian model was made by Prime Minister Horst Seehofer and Aigner on Monday with the Chairman of BMW and Audi, Harald Krüger, and Rupert Stadler, will be negotiated. A BMW spokesman said, in the Kaufprämie was an order of magnitude of 4000 to 5000 Euro in the conversation. Which share the corporations take over, it remained open. An Insider reportedly was from 1500 euros the speech. Aigner said only, the amount will be negotiated.

Germany is losing ground

A new study finds that the global growth of electric mobility is currently the Chinese market is driven, while Germany his self-imposed claim as the lead market and leading provider for E-cars will not meet. In 2015, the sales of E-cars in China due to the enormous dynamics of the last few months 188.000 tripled, writes an automotive expert Stefan Bratzel from the Center of Automotive Management (CAM) in Bergisch Gladbach. So China is by far ahead of the United States of new lead market for electromobility.

In the United States are full-year new registrations of electric vehicles by three percent to 115,000 fallen, due to only a slight increase in sales of pure electric vehicles and significantly declining Trends in hybrid vehicles. According to the study, is the UK 2015 largest Elektroautomarkt Europe with 28.000 E-cars become – an increase of 70 percent compared to 2014. In France it increased the E-car registrations in the full year to 27,000 (+67 percent). Germany comes in the full year 2015, despite an increase by 80 percent to only 23.500 newly registered electric Cars.

Authorities control approvals

The increasing demand dynamics of E-mobility in China is referred to Autoexperte Bratzel as the result of a combination of fiscal and regulatory instruments as well as industrial Offered by manufacturers. Besides the financial inducements to buy benefit electric vehicles in China currently, in cities such as Shanghai and Beijing, from preferred admission requirements.

“While the state authorities passenger Cars with conventional drives from congestion or on Environmental grounds, exchange and, therefore, Fahrzeugkäufer often only limited or no regulatory approvals, it is for electric vehicles is not”, writes Bratzel. “Therefore electric cars are, for many clients, an interesting Mobilitätsalternative.” And: Chinese models are clearly a leader on the domestic market for electric cars.

Efficient batteries decide

“China has already made good progress, in addition to the lead market in the future also to the global leading Supplier for electric mobility,” writes Bratzel. The growth of electric mobility is at a global level is still strong public Förderkulissen dependent, because the E-cars so far, apart from a few exceptions, hardly competitive. Needs to be dealt with according to his words, the R. I. P. issue, which is nothing with “Rest in peace” has to do, but the issue of range, infrastructure, and price describes.

According to Bratzel are the automobile manufacturers faced a Herculean task: they have the reach of the E-vehicles on at least 300 up to 500 kilometres increase and at the same time reduce costs, Mainly through the batteries arise. Bratzel, therefore, calls for a “concerted action in the automotive industry and the government in Germany in the medium – and long-term Batteriezelltechnologie as a Central Wertschöpfungsbaustein of E-mobility in Germany.”