RWE continues to believe in the success of electric cars
The energy group RWE continues to assume that electric cars in Germany will be successful and expects in the near future with a market breakthrough. "The turnaround may come more quickly than many expected when the batteries are cheaper and technically advanced significantly," the Financial Times quotes Germany RWE Efficiency Manager Ingo Alphéus.
"The goal of a million electric cars by 2020 is to create." Therefore believes Alphéus at the output of the federal government beginning of the decade goal of which the by itself launched advisory committee "National Platform for Electric Mobility" now increasingly move away.
Except for the shorter range scare the high cost of electric vehicles from interested buyers - currently a few thousand of the purely electrically powered cars are in Germany just around 100 privately owned. Have more success already electric bicycles and small vehicles with four wheels, which are designed for short-haul operations in the urban jungle, so that the "range anxiety" is hardly a role for both the acquisition cost are significantly below those of electric cars.
Currently, the electric smart ed will cost around 10,000 euros more than a petrol engine the two-seater with comparable equipment - which is mainly due to the cost of batteries. Starting at the middle of this decade, the price of the battery but fall so far that the gap in the purchase price to exclude cars with internal combustion engine, said Alphéus the newspaper. The Essen-based energy company therefore intend its network of charging stations currently 1300 gradually expand. In his optimistic market forecast pointed Manager of RWE on photovoltaics, whose breakthrough came faster than expected. However, make German solar industry overcapacity, creating pressure on prices, especially from China and declining subsidies. Several German suppliers were now in bankruptcy.
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