Germany aims to boost EV uptake with draft charging master plan
Clean Energy Wire
Germany’s transport ministry (BMV) aims to ramp up the sluggish demand for electric mobility by 2030 with a draft master plan for charging infrastructure.
The draft spells out measures to make charging electric vehicles and trucks more attractive, for example by providing financial support for charging facilities in apartment blocks, ensuring more charging stations are accessible to disabled people, and expanding fast charging points for trucks along motorways.
The draft master plan also addresses the integration of electric mobility with the power grid. It says that network operators should respond to requests from charging operators quicker, and provide better insights into their capacities via an online tool. As the increased power demand could threaten grid stability, grid operators in Germany are allowed to temporarily throttle electricity supply to charging points since January 2024.
Regulatory and tax rules for bidirectional charging, which enables EV owners to use the car’s battery as a storage unit for the house or grid, should also be established, according to the draft. “To support the introduction and scaling of bidirectional charging devices, the BMV will include them in future funding programmes,” it states.
The aim is to have the draft finalised and approved still in autumn of 2025 to ensure that implementation of the plan can begin promptly, the transport ministry said.
Registrations of new EVs in Germany reached an all-time high in the first half of 2025. Energy industry association BDEW recently said that while charging infrastructure for electric vehicles is expanding, existing charging points are not yet being fully used.
