Plug-in electric vehicles in Germany | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-14

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00:03:30 1 Government incentives
00:09:15 1.1 Purchase incentives
00:15:57 1.2 Controversies
00:17:36 1.3 National Platform for Electric Mobility
00:18:44 2 Charging infrastructure
00:24:37 3 Sales
00:27:38 3.1 2011-2012
00:29:58 3.2 2013-2015
00:34:27 3.3 2016-2017
00:36:55 4 Top selling models by year



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The adoption of plug-in electric vehicles in  Germany is actively supported by the  German Federal Government. Under its National Plattform for Electric Mobility, Chancellor Angela Merkel set the goal in 2010 to deploy one million electric vehicles on German roads by 2020. As of  December 2017, a total of 129,246 plug-in electric cars have been registered in Germany since 2010. The country is the largest passenger car market in Europe, however, as of  December 2016, ranked as the eighth largest plug-in market in the world and the fifth largest in Europe. About 80% of the plug-in electric cars registered in the country through September 2016 were registered since January 2014. As of  November 2014, the country had 4,800 public charging stations.The market share of plug-in electric passenger cars increased from 0.12% of new car sales in 2012, to 0.25% in 2013, and reached 0.40% in 2014. As plug-in car sales surge in 2015, the segment's market share increased to 0.7% of new car sales. The German monthly plug-in market share passed the 1% mark for the first time ever in December 2015, with an all-time record market share of 1.28% of new car registrations that month.  After the introduction of the purchase subsidy in mid-2016, the plug-in segment achieved a market share of 1.1% in September, the highest during the first nine months of 2016. The market share remained at 0.7% in 2016, but rose to 1.6% in 2017, with sales up 217% from 2016.Initially, the government announced that it would not provide subsidies to promote sales of plug-in electric vehicles, however, by the end of 2014 it was recognized that the country was well behind the set sales targets. As a result, an incentive scheme to promote plug-in electric vehicle adoption was approved in April 2016 with a budget of €1 billion (US$1.13 billion), of which, a total of €600 million (US$678 million) is reserved for purchase subsidies, which are expected to run until  all the money is disbursed, estimated to last until 2019 at the latest. Electric car buyers get a €4000 (US$4,520) discount while buyers of plug-in hybrid vehicles get a discount of €3000 (US$3,390). Premium cars are not eligible to the incentive. Only electric vehicles purchased after 18 May 2016 are eligible for the bonus.