Merkel wants 1m electric car charging points by 2030

Germany should have one million charging stations for electric cars by 2030, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a video message yesterday, ahead of meetings on Monday with the car industry on how to speed the move to low-emission battery-driven vehicles. “For this purpose, we want to create a million charging points by the year 2030 and the industry will have to participate in this effort,” Merkel said. Germany now has just 20,000 public charging points.