Green wave in the Bundestag: For three days, members of the Bundestag can find out about everyday e-mobility concepts. The event is organized by the Parliamentary Group for E-Mobility with around 80 members, who is particularly interested and committed to this topic. They find out about everyday electric mobility concepts and can try out the Nissan Leaf or Nissan e-NV 200.
Steffen Bilger, spokesman for the parliamentary group for electromobility and member of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, has so far seen electric vehicles as "a very expensive gimmick for individualists". He is convinced that there are already offers suitable for everyday use. This is exactly what the Bundestag colleagues want to find out about.
Climate protection goals set a clear line for how to proceed with automotive mobility. Now the tried-and-tested electrical technology still needs to be integrated into the market and made accessible to the general public, says Andreas Rimkus, deputy spokesman for transport policy for the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag and rapporteur for future issues of mobility. For this purpose, Nissan has made its electric range available to the members of the Bundestag so that politicians can put the vehicles through their paces, but above all to test them for their suitability for everyday use.
“The Greens” are particularly in demand on this topic. Stephan Kühn, transport policy spokesman for the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, sees politics as obliged to provide appropriate political impulses to make the population receptive to the topic of electromobility. After all, the federal government plans to have one million electric cars on German roads by 2020. The political groups must discuss this together. But information events, like Nissan's, would give a good insight into what could be supported and promoted by politics.
Of course, the Japanese manufacturer is happy to provide its vehicles for such events, the corresponding effect on the image of the portfolio cannot be denied. The discussion for important market incentives for e-mobility can only be driven forward in this way, after all, more than just good marketing is necessary to introduce customers to new technologies. So political signs are necessary to increase the spread and acceptance. At least that's what Robert Echtermeyer, head of the capital representative of Nissan Europe says.
But not only Nissan has an interesting range of electric vehicles. In addition to the well-known manufacturer Tesla German brands are also not asleep when it comes to electrifying automotive engineering. Opel is coming with a new one soon Ampera e, BMW offers the i3 and i8 and Volkswagen has that E-UP! and E-Golf in program. It is critically questioned whether a million electric cars will be on our roads in three and a half years.
