Auto industry
Prime Minister Lies: Make e-cars more attractive for everyone
Lower Saxony’s head of government demands more speed in promoting electric cars. The VW supervisory board is not just about climate protection.
According to Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Olaf Lies, buying an electric car should be worth it financially for everyone. “Our responsibility is to ensure that the electric car is the more economic solution for everyone,” said the SPD politician and Supervisory Board of Volkswagen of the German Press Agency.
With cheaper electricity prices, the electric car would be more economical compared to the combustion engine today, Lies continued. “Nobody talks about it,” he criticized. “There is still in the heads: E-cars are too expensive, the range is too small and the battery does not last. This has long since been overhauled in many places.”
Reading continued: “I am not the one who says everyone has to drive electrically. But I say: You have to be able to afford mobility tomorrow. And in an electrified world of tomorrow, the only way to use the electricity is the only way.”
Tax advantages for e-cars? Reads quick implementation
However, politics had to make e-mobility even more attractive beyond lower electricity prices: Lies referred to the federal plans for tax funding for electromobility as important. To do this, you need “quickly detailed information and a quick implementation”.
In addition to the affordability of mobility, he is also concerned with the fact that the cars are to be manufactured further at German locations. “This will not work if you operate the outgoing market for combustion engines alone,” said Lies.
The Prime Minister himself owns three old Volkswagen – all of them. On the other hand, he switched to purely electrical cars years ago.
“Extreme consumption restraint” is a problem of VW
With regard to the VW crisis, Lies said that the renewal process in the group will be continued intensively in the next few years: “The electrical platform is.
Volkswagen, however, offers more than just e-cars, even if that is “sometimes a little too short” in perception, Lies said. “I am convinced: Volkswagen is on the right track – unless the market is not attracting. We have extreme consumption retention. People don’t buy because they cannot be sure what is tomorrow. That is why we need economic stability.” In the event of an economic upswing, people would buy more cars again.
dpa
Source: Stern
