No.
Maybe four years ago, I could see some brief window of opportunity opening and some part of German society interested in the 'science' and marketing.
I give four reasons for this lack of 'take-off':
1. Germans already pay a significant amount on electrical grid costs....so telling some family that they have to have two E-cars and the grid cost added on for the two cars might be 3,000 Euro a year....won't work.
2. Germans use their cars for vacation trips....so planning a 800 km trip with a E-car....means at least one stop in the middle....to charge up the vehicle....hoping that you do find a free charger at the time of day.
3. These notable fires with the E-cars....get talked about. Eventually, I expect German insurance companies to ask...if you house the E-car in a garage, or next to your house.
4. Go ask your condo association or apartment building owners....if they will install chargers, and if their insurance covers E-car fires. The response will be 'no-chargers' on our part unless the gov't forces us, and an eventual rule of no parking within a building for E-cars.
So I'm breaking the news here....politically, there's a storm brewing over the next ten years, and those parties pressing on with dissolving gas/diesel cars....are set to be dissolved.
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From what I've read VW is giving it a pass.
VW has put a heck of a lot of money into technology. Same for Audi, BMW, Ford-Germany, Opel, etc. They needed orders on the books and weren't going nowhere in 2024. Green Party is talking up the idea...cash-for-clunkers (what they did in 2008/2009). Our old 2007 Audi TT would be a candidate for this deal.....wife said 'hell, no'....she won't buy into the technology.
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