Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz call on Germany to speed up the deployment of electric vehicle charging network

CTOnews.com, February 20 (Xinhua)-- German automakers Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen have called on the German government to take more measures to expand the number of charging stations for electric vehicles across the country, Reuters quoted German newspaper Bild Am Sonntag as saying.

"to accelerate the transition to electric cars, we need to ensure that charging station infrastructure is under construction," said Ola Kallenius, chief executive of Mercedes-Benz.

Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume also believes that the need to speed up, the construction of charging stations is "a common task of the national economy, the federal government and cities and towns."

CTOnews.com has reported that the German government approved a plan last October to rapidly expand the number of charging stations across the country at a cost of 6.3 billion euros (currently about 46.242 billion yuan). The plan includes speeding up the state's approval of the construction of charging stations.

"the future of cars is electric." "by the end of this decade, we hope to be ready for a complete transition to electric vehicles in our market segment, if market conditions permit," Kallenius said. "this is not a foregone conclusion, but requires a huge industrial transformation."