Friday, November 26, 2021

What's in the Coalition Agreement About E-Cars?

 Well.....it says by 2030, 80-percent of all produced power MUST be renewable energy (not the 65-percent that was on the previous books).  Is it possible to reach this goal?  You'd have to revamp the life-cycle deal on wind generators, and get more enthusiasm back into the program.  Or you could reword this to mean 'zero-carbon' which means nuke energy could be brought back into the system.

The coalition also says the nation needs 15 million E-cars on the road by 2030.  Odds of this?  Mixed.  Maybe around urban areas of Frankfurt, Berlin, Stuttgart....there is enthusiasm building up.  Rural areas....lot less thrills.  

They wrote a piece into the coalition agreement that regular gas/diesel cars would not be registered into the system by 2035.  Ability to deliver on this?  I'd put it at virtually zero chance.  But it does sound good on paper.

There's a piece in the agreement over public charging stations in Germany....where the government wants one-million public charging stations by 2030.  This is not referring to home charging but out in towns, cities and along the autobahn.  Current number (early 2021).....around 23k.  This would require an awful lot of effort, and high public cost.

All that chatter about speed limits?  Gone.  No attempt to install speed limits at present.

Allowing kids at 16 to drive (with an adult in the car)....on the table and probably will occur in the next year.  

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