The Federal Council has called for the reintroduction of a purchase bonus for electric cars. The federal government should examine this, according to a resolution passed by the state chamber on Friday. Only with an “accelerated and consistent ramp-up of e-mobility” can Germany’s automotive sector continue to compete on the global market. The motion for a resolution was submitted by the states of Lower Saxony and Saarland, and Hesse expressly declared its support. Federal Council resolutions are requests that are usually addressed to the federal government to draw attention to problems. However, they are not legally binding.
The federal government’s e-car purchase bonus, known as the environmental bonus, was stopped prematurely at the end of last year in the wake of the budget crisis; After that, sales of electric cars were in Germany broke in. With the resolution, the Federal Council wants to “motivate the federal government to become significantly more involved”.
The motion for a resolution states that the automotive industry is Germany’s most important industry with 770,000 jobs. It is “worrying” that domestic production and the number of new registrations are currently still below the figures for the pre-crisis year 2019. It would require “a special effort to register 15 million fully electric cars by 2030 as planned and to achieve the associated climate protection goals.” The resolution will be sent to the federal government, which will deal with it. There are no fixed deadlines for this.
The market is heavily impacted by falling demand for electric cars. Due to weak demand for electric cars, the industry recently lowered its forecast for 2024. Annual sales of only 372,000 purely battery-powered cars are expected, 29 percent less than in the previous year, according to the Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA). with President Hildegard Müller (57) announced in October.