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Electric cars are to be used by parliamentarians in Berlin next year in a move billed as part of the transition from Germany to German carmakers mobility environmentally want government incentives to stimulate stagnant sales e-cars.
A letter from Norbert Lammert, President of the German Bundestag parliament, parliamentarians emerged Saturday, saying talks were underway to add electric cars to the fleet of the room.
Following a report by the tabloid Bild newspaper, the German DPA news agency said 100 vehicles of the middle class would gradually from mid-2017, when the Bundestag contract with an existing shuttle provider failed.
Lammert, who chairs the Parliament, said the Wise recommended that the next shuttle BwFuhrparkService contract go to the Bundestag.
The commercial offshoot of the armed forces of Germany, with a minority of 25 percent owned by German Rail provides passenger cars, military trucks and special vehicles such as airport tractors to move the aircraft.
Bild quoted a Bundestag spokesman saying the goal was to reduce carbon exhaust emissions within the Bundestag fleet to 95 grams per kilometer by 2020 - reflecting the objectives discussed at the climate conference UN December in Paris.
In 2013, the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirmed its goal of putting a million electric cars on German roads by 2020.
Friday VDA German automobile federation demanded a pulse of enormous federal government for electric mobility, saying he had financial incentives to state persuade consumers to switch to the purchase of electric vehicles in mass.
VDA President Matthias Wissmann, former German Minister of Transport, said it was time that Germany has offered car buyers incentives that could vary from a tax benefit to subsidized premium directly to purchase.
Der Spiegel news magazine reported Friday that the sum of 5,000 euros per 5400 new vehicles offered by the Social Democrat Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, was discussed in the media industry and the government.
Direct premium for buyers has already been rejected by the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble.
Follow Conservative and spokesman of the Bundestag budget committee Eckhardt Rehberg said that the automotive industry has made billions in recent years and is economically strong enough that it didnt be supported by the taxpaper.
The demand for electric vehicles is still meager in Germany On 3 2 million passenger cars registered last year, only 12,363 were electric cars.
Deterrents are relatively high prices for e-vehicles, low kilometer range compared compared to a fossil fuel vehicle fully tanked and insufficient locations for charging car batteries.
The current 5,600 public charging points are too little, Wissmann said VDA compared to the figure of 16 000 discussed by the government.
Speak high on the issue are scheduled for next Tuesday between Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of the three automakers, Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW, according to Der Spiegel.
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