Although good news, maybe do something about the fact that every minute 13 million dollar in subsidies is going to fossil fuels... In 2022 the total was 7 trillion, dwarfing the 1 trillion for renewables (globally)

Source: IMF

Im still not used to pirate Olaf

This is the best summary I could come up with:

MUNICH, Germany, Sept 5 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lauded the German car industry's efforts at electrification at Munich's IAA car show and condemned protests as "irritating" as he announced a new law to expand the number of electric vehicle charging stations.

Scholz said that the coming weeks will see Germany become "the first country in Europe to introduce a law requiring operators of 80% of all service stations to provide fast-charging options with at least 150 kilowatts for e-cars".

Sporting an eye patch after a jogging accident at the weekend, Scholz did not give a time frame for the initiative.

Europe's biggest economy has only 90,000 public charging points but is targeting 1 million by 2030 to boost EV take-up.

High prices, limited range and a lack of charging stations, especially in rural areas, have been cited as the main reasons for the lag in EV sales.

While Western carmakers fret over intense competition from Chinese rivals, major German auto suppliers told Reuters at the mobility show that they were eager to expand existing partnerships in China and provide those rising manufacturers with European-made parts.

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The actual roadblock (sic) to e-cars in Europe and especially Germany is that culturally, people don't live in the urban sprawl (one house one garage per family) but more like Americans do in big cities like NYC: Multi-flat apartments with no reserved parking spots - street parking is the norm, and in bigger cities is very hard to find in the evening. That of course means overnight charging is only possible for those who own a parking space closed off to the public, and can convince the person who they rent from to install a charger. Then you have the further problem of the electric grid in most cities not being able to supply the needed bandwidth for a big number of fast chargers. That'd mean that the whole grid would have to be upgraded, so digging up city streets for the next decades. People in the sticks who own property (single house on a plot of land) are those who can reasonably switch to electric cars for the time being, because let's face it, no amount of chargers at service stations will be enough - if I can't charge my car overnight at home, I won't buy an e-car. I'm not driving to the next service station, wait for a charger to become available, then sit in my car playing Vampire Survivors for 2h until it's charged. Every other day.

I seriously doubt electric cars will take off in Europe due to the lack of the "charging at home" option for the majority of people with no real resolution in sight.

Does the legislation say anything about the number of chargers at each service station?