When the environmental bonus was canceled, many expected that electric cars would cost significantly more. But now manufacturers are outdoing each other with discounts. What’s going on there?
This year? The salesman at a Peugeot car dealership in the Munich area says he hasn’t sold a single electric car yet. Since the federal government canceled the environmental bonus that promoted new electric cars almost overnight in mid-December, there has been a lull at many dealers. “People are unsettled,” the salesman says – and that he hopes that manufacturers and politicians will soon think about how they can boost e-car sales again.