VW Works Council Chairwoman Daniela Cavallo is calling on the German government to provide more support for the ramp-up of electromobility. "Politicians must also support this, not just set targets that are right," said Cavallo at the dpa editorial conference in Berlin on Monday. Otherwise, the goal of having 15 million electric cars on the road in Germany by 2030 would be almost impossible to achieve. "This is a huge challenge and requires the plan to be gradually developed further." However, she does not see this happening at the moment.
The short-term end of the e-car subsidy last year does not help here, nor do discussions about technological openness. This only creates new uncertainty, criticized Cavallo, adding that companies need planning security in order to be able to make the switch to electric. She therefore believes it would be wrong to move away from the planned phase-out of combustion engines in 2035. "That would be fatal. I take a critical view of the fact that there are now discussions that the plan should perhaps be watered down."
