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Today in Elektroauto-News.net

VDA President Mattes:
"The ramp-up of electromobility in Europe...

In total,the German automotive industry will invest almost 60 billion euros in thefuture of mobility over the next three years. Electric cars and autonomousdriving are the focal points, as VDA President Bernhard Mattes explained beforethe Geneva Motor Show. All in all, "more than 40 billion euros will beinvested in electromobility and another 18 billion euros will be invested indigitization and networked and automated driving," continued Mattes. For him, itis clear: "The ramp-up of electromobility comes in Europe". Becauseone thing is also clear, "without them, the CO2 targets of the EU can notbe achieved by 2030". At the same time, Mattes called for what he calledappropriate regulatory conditions throughout Europe. In his view, the charginginfrastructure for electric cars had to be expanded and incentives for buyersof electric cars offered. Germanyplays a decisive role here. After all, Germany, together with some other majorEuropean economies, will have a significantly higher share of electric vehiclesin new registrations than the EU average, according to Mattes. He assumes thatthe range of electric car models German manufacturers will triple in the nextthree years to around 100 models.

We will be there too. They need us .... ha ha