---
title: "Germany Is Requiring All Gas Stations Get Electric Car Chargers"
description: "Germany will require all future gas stations to feature electric car charging ports in a move to boost demand for electric cars."
date: "2020-06-04"
modified: "2020-06-04"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/germany-gas-stations-electric-car-chargers"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
tags:
  - "electric car market"
  - "electric cars"
  - "germany"
  - "the digest"
---

# Germany Is Requiring All Gas Stations Get Electric Car Chargers

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/germany-gas-stations-electric-car-chargers.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Volkswagen\</em\>*

## Gas and Electric

Germany will require all future gas stations to feature electric car charging ports, in a move to boost demand for electric cars, [*Reuters* reports](<https://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKBN23B1WU>).

The move is also in large part to help alleviate "range anxiety," one of the major reasons people chose a gas vehicle over an electric one.

"Internationally this puts Germany in the leading group of battery electric vehicle support," energy storage specialist at The Mobility House wrote in a statement, as quoted by *Reuters*.

## Going Renewable

As part of the country's greater electric vehicle push, Germany is also doubling its existing subsidies electric vehicles to the equivalent of $6,720 for vehicles costing up to $44,800, [*CNN* reports](<https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/business/germany-stimulus-electric-cars/index.html>).

"This is about renewable energies," German finance minister Olaf Scholz told *CNN*. "This is about all the climate activities which are necessary to get to a \[carbon\] neutral economy in 2050. We have to start now."

## Boom Time

Demand for electric vehicles may be [booming in Europe](<https://about.bnef.com/electric-vehicle-outlook/>), but Germany still has a long way before turning the majority of consumers towards electric vehicles. Only 3.3 percent of newly registered vehicles in May were electric, according to *Reuters*. Car sales also saw a huge dip as a result of the global pandemic this year.

"The industry is down in a dark cellar, and although it's managed to climb back up a few steps, there's still no sign of light," Klaus Wohlrabe, head of surveys at the Ifo institute, an economic research think tank, told *CNN*.

**READ MORE:** [Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging](<https://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKBN23B1WU>) \[*Reuters*\]

**More on electric cars:** *[GENERAL MOTORS ANNOUNCES HIGH-PERFORMANCE, ALL-ELECTRIC HUMMER](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/general-motors-all-electric-hummer>)*

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

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