News Digest Item
07 Mar 2017

“Germany in the backseat”

WWF / LichtBlick

Germany lags behind in the worldwide expansion of e-mobility, according to a new report by environmental NGO WWF and German renewable power provider LichtBlick. “We are only at the beginning, but the trend towards e-mobility is gaining momentum globally. Ironically, it is the ‘automobile nation Germany’ that oversleeps this development,” said Gero Lücking of LichtBlick. New registrations of e-cars were comparably low in Germany, but Dieselgate might be the wake-up call for the German auto industry, says the report.

Read the press release in German here and the report in German .

For background, see the 淨 dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.

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