Merkel has not given up on 2020 e-car target
Chancellor Angela Merkel stands by the German government鈥檚 goal to have one million electric vehicles on Germany鈥檚 roads by 2020, she said in an interview broadcast live on YouTube. 鈥淣o, no, no, I have not given it up. [鈥 I only said we have to do more, or we won鈥檛 easily achieve it鈥�, Merkel told AlexiBexi, one of the four YouTube stars conducting the interview. Merkel also announced she would invite those municipalities that regularly exceed nitrogen oxide emission limits to a debate on 4 September on ways to make those cities clean mobility leaders, using the 500 million euro sustainable mobility fund for cities decided at the diesel summit on 2 August. This includes improving the charging infrastructure to encourage people to switch to electric vehicles, she said.
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