Note that she made a similar promise before which she didn't end up keeping: https://www.greenoptimistic.com/angela-merkel-electric-cars-germany-20130603/ https

Note that she made a similar promise before which she didn't end up keeping: https://www.greenoptimistic.com/angela-merkel-electric-cars-germany-20130603/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/angela-merkel-electric-cars-... Despite her promise, we have 196 thousand electric cars in Germany now according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country