83.39 million inhabitants and now one million electric vehicles in circulation. The country of Volkswagen is carried by the wave of electrification. In December, Germany reached 104,325 new registrations of electric vehicles, according to the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) relayed by Electrive.
15 million EVs by 2030
With the end of the old ecological bonus for the purchase of EVs, on January 1, sales took off in December. Since the beginning of the year, the purchase of a new electric model has been subsidized up to a maximum of €4,500 compared to €6,000 until December 31, 2022. The increase is all the more surprising given the figures for previous years. . On January 1, 2022, the number of electric cars in Germany was still 618,460, while on January 1, 2021, there were only 309,083 on German roads.
But the threshold of one million vehicles crossed at the end of the year is only a first step, according to the forecasts of the German authorities. By 2030, the federal government is aiming for 15 million battery-electric vehicles on the road. With the halving of aid this year, experts from the German Institute for Economic Research fear that the objective will be difficult to achieve. According to the researchers’ calculations, 145,000 electric cars would need to be registered each month to achieve these predictions.
A growing infrastructure
An ambitious goal, but not out of reach given the latest announcements from German manufacturers. Many brands have confirmed that they will only release electric cars in the next decade. The expected explosion of these more virtuous forms of transport, from the point of view of CO2 emissions, nevertheless raises questions of infrastructure.
“For the establishment and operation of the charging infrastructure, it is now primarily up to the energy and automotive sector to play“, recalls Steffen Hebestreit, government spokesperson during a debate on “the transformation of the automotive and mobility industry“.
According to a study by Deloitte, the lack of public charging infrastructure across the Rhine is the second fear of German consumers (47%), behind vehicle autonomy (57%).