News Digest Item
08 Aug 2016

“Electric mobility: China is leaving competition behind”

McKinsey

Germany has been ranked third in the latest Electric Vehicle Index by consultancy McKinsey for being one of the most important manufacturing countries for electric cars. China ranked highest, followed by Japan. By 2021 around one-third of new electric cars could be produced by German companies, McKinsey said. Neither in China nor in Germany are e-cars a mass phenomena yet, McKinsey added. In Germany, the market share is at 0.7 percent, in China at 1.1 percent.

Read a summary of the index in German here.

Read a CLEW dossier on the energy transition in the transport sector.

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