Daimler Manager calls for a higher gasoline price for e-car demand

Daimler Manager calls for a higher gasoline price for e-car demand

Stuttgart, Deutschland - The sale of electric cars stagnates - the problem is obvious! Martin Daum, the former boss of Daimler Truck, suggests a radical solution: Higher gasoline prices should force the switch to electric cars! In a SWR videocast, Daum explained that an annual surcharge of ten cents per liter could cause a turn from the drivers. "Soon it will bite so huge that the frequent drivers no longer decide on a petrol engine, but immediately buy an electric car," says the 64-year-old.

Daum is not a friend of state purchase bonuses for electric cars and sees these measures as superfluous. Instead, he demands that the federal government invest more in infrastructure such as charging stations and streets. While the traffic sector is now responsible for a fifth of greenhouse gases in Germany and the sales figures for electric cars are just three percent, Daum announces: "The promotion of new technologies only makes sense in the very first phase." However, this phase has long been over in electric cars. These high gasoline prices could therefore be a key to the turn in the automotive industry, which is in the crisis. Details offers bnn.de .