Customers must be convinced that Zetsche is at E-car-premium skeptical n-tv.de NEWS

Sunday, 18. December 2016

electric cars are on German roads are still a rarity – the car companies sell too little. The government wants to help the Whole since July, the E-car premium on top of the jumps. However, Daimler boss Zetsche is no Fan of the credit.

Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche sees the Federal government introduced a buyer’s premium for electric cars skeptical. “The success will come, if we can convince the customers with E-cars and fascinate,” said Zetsche, the “picture on Sunday”. Therefore, he was never a great supporter of the E-car premium.

A premium, it could never enforce an uneconomic technology. “Electric cars that inspire are not from today to tomorrow,” added the Daimler-chief. “Slowly we can achieve with battery-powered cars with similar ranges, such as with internal combustion engines.” Also, the cost went down. Daimler is, according to the report, that in the year 2025 about 15 to 25 percent of all newly registered cars of the group with an electric motor.

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More than 5 months after the Start of the purchase premium for electric cars to almost 4200 buyer to get the promotion approved, such as the MDR reported. It would add nearly 3,200 requests for a premium for a Hybrid vehicle. The competent Federal office of Economics and export control (Bafa) has money for about 400,000 of Funding.

price of 60,000 euros will be Funded since the beginning of July, the purchase of new electric cars to the list. For pure E-cars, there are 4000 Euro, hybrid vehicles will be funded with 3000 euros. Here, the manufacturer takes the half of the Rest of the state pays. A total of 1.2 billion euros.

The ADAC sees as the reason for the reluctance of German motorists of the price. Despite the subsidy, most of the models are still significantly more expensive than a comparable Diesel or gasoline, said an ADAC spokesman for the MDR. Many commuters are not out of the range of the vehicles. “Right now in the Winter, if we have additional consumers such as the heating, the range is reduced even more.”

source: n-tv.de

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