“Electric Mobility – Missing the market?"
The simple reason why e-car sales languish in Germany, while e-bicycle sales “go through the roof” is that e-cars do not offer users any advantages over conventional cars, writes researcher Tobias Männel in a blog post for the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO. But congested and polluted cities offer the chance to give innovative e-mobility approaches a headstart, Männel argues. He says Germans need to abandon the outdated idea that mobility is equivalent to having a big car. “The real challenge for the transformation of our mobility systems is not the lack of a charging station, but our historic and outdated conception of mobility’s essence.”
Read the blog post in German .
For background, read the 淨 dossier The energy transition and Germany’s transport sector.