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(S+) charging stations: How Germany is failing in the mobility transition

2022-06-22T04:05:43.074Z


The federal government wants to put 15 million electric cars on the road by 2030. A huge challenge. Mainly because the state is getting in its own way when it comes to expanding the charging infrastructure. Visit to bureaucratic hell.


Günther Vollath is an eco-investor, as the federal government would like him to be: he operates several solar parks in southern Bavaria;

he would like to sell the electricity generated there to drivers of e-cars.

Local, cheap and environmentally friendly.

Investors like Vollath are a central part of the mobility turnaround.

This is actually how the traffic light parties see it, writing in their coalition agreement on the expansion of the charging infrastructure: "We are relying on the mobilization of private investments." Actually.

The problem: the state and the bureaucracy make it extremely difficult for investors like Günther Vollath to participate economically in the mobility revolution.

The applications are difficult to understand and are processed for a long time - and then possibly rejected.

If there is a funding notification, the technology funded is often outdated due to the long processing time.

Günther Vollath therefore says: “Anyone who wants to build charging stations in Germany actually has to do it without the state.”

In this episode of SPIEGEL Daily, you can also hear how the Federal Government Commissioner for Charging Station Infrastructure, Daniela Kluckert, reacts to the criticism.

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Source: spiegel

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