“Progress prohibited”
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Tenants and flat owners in apartment buildings in Germany face high legal hurdles if they want to retrofit on-property parking areas with an e-car charging station, Berrit Gräber writes in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Even those who agree to pay for the upgrade themselves soon face restrictions,” she says. A German court recently ruled that e-car charging stations are not part of a flat’s minimum standard, Gräber writes. The state pays e-car buyers a premium and has announced it will vastly expand the countrywide charging station network, but “only at home, in your own garage, nothing can be done,” Gräber writes.
Read the article in German here.
For background, see the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.
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