BMW and Opel demand subsidies for electric cars, so that their expensive cars are not designed Clerks. BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer said now that the federal government would have in eight years, a million electric vehicles on the road, "but last year sold just 2000, including 100 at retail." This would be bought, despite the high prices anymore, it need incentives "for example, the tax law." Opel Chief Technology Officer Rita Forst told the "Handelsblatt" car-annual conference in Munich: "There is no point in just a couple of pilot vehicles and showcase projects to have." The customer expects affordable alternatives here, right now, but "the purchase price is a major problem." In France and some other countries there are subsidies. If Europe is a departure from fossil fuels really serious about, "then financial incentives are the only logical conclusion," said Forst. "The auto industry needs more, more support." Because at the end of the day they had to earn money with electric cars.
Reithofer expects hybrid and electric cars by 2020, together with a market share of seven percent to 15 percent. In the U.S., electric cars would get with the guidelines for acceptable use of the fleet car manufacturer to offer a bonus. In Europe, the EU Commission wants to reduce CO2 emissions dramatically. But reducing the CO2 emissions of the BMW fleet from 148 to 100 grams today, was "an enormous challenges." To achieve such limits would have to build smaller cars and midsize cars are also equipped with three-cylinder engines. BMW will expand its range of hybrid cars and start at the end of 2013 with mass production of electric BMW i3. Activities during the transition to new technologies, the manufacturers hardest with old technologies are still successful, "said Reithofer. BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen, basked in the success of their engines, the buyer, they demanded. But that could easily gaze on the future . dim
Professor Stefan Bratzel of the Centre for Automotive Management in Bergisch Gladbach, said on the sidelines of the conference: "Pure electric vehicles will remain a small niche." The call for subsidies will be in a financial crisis unlikely to flourish. In France, despite the subsidies go ahead properly, also there are only a few thousand vehicles have been sold. Because gasoline and diesel engines were always more economical, the hurdle for the purchase of an electric car would be even higher. The auto industry should make plug-in hybrid cars cheaper by larger numbers, said Bratzel.
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