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It's for cars produced in Germany produced by Volkswagen, Daimler or BMW, so the car selection is very limited (several of the cars in the photo aren't subsidiz
by frik 10y ago
It's for cars produced in Germany produced by Volkswagen, Daimler or BMW, so the car selection is very limited (several of the cars in the photo aren't subsidized because they cost more than €60k). Germany will subsidies €2000, the remaining rest (up to €2000) come from one of the three companies - basically a price discount.
Isn't there a similar subsidies/discount in California(?) where you get $5000 if you buy an electric car (manufacturer doesn't matter afaik)?
- rb2k_ 10y agoThere is a Federal + State one: http://driveclean.ca.gov/pev/Costs/Vehicles.php http://driveclean.ca.gov/pev/Costs/Vehicles.php For a Chevy Volt, that was $7500 Federal + $1500 State Worked nicely for a lease too.
- lispm 10y agoIt's open for all producers, not only German. It is expected that other companies will join.
- Rexxar 10y agoIt's true but it's suspicious to require to sign a contract with government to have the money. They should instead have just publish a specification of what a car should have to qualify. The fact that the 3 majors German car makers have already a head-start for this subvention whereas there are lots of electric car models from other car makers doesn't inspire trust in this process ...
- lispm 10y agoWhat head-start? The market for electric vehicles almost does not exist. Almost nobody is buying them yet and it's not only a cost problem. The money allocated will be available for 350000 cars. It will take some years to sell those. In 2014 the whole of Germany bought just 8522 electric cars plus 27435 hybrid cars... It's even worse, probably half of these cars were never used in Germany but exported...