Electric cars may have a much higher increasing market share
This reticence to buy is not an exclusively German phenomenon either.
Electric cars may have a much higher and/or much faster increasing market share in a
number of other places, such as Norway, the Netherlands and China, but this is
almost always because those countries subsidise the purchase of electric
vehicles far more heavily than Germany. In some cases, government policy
actively prevents or disincentivises the purchase of conventional cars. In some
regions of China, for example, only a limited number of licenses are issued for
the purchase of new cars with combustion engines. There is not one automotive
market in the world in which electric vehicles are making inroads without state
assistance.
However, this should not be taken as a plea for even higher
German subsidies!
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