Electricity is not clean energy. Electric vehicles are set to dominate the roads in the near future. I am not a fortune teller to predict future developments, but I do know one thing: such a revolution is not expected overnight. As much as 2/3 of the world's electricity comes from dirty sources, and it is by no means the clean energy that some claim it to be. But electric vehicles are the solution to reducing pollution in big cities, for example in China. My own view is that a major change will be possible and justified when electricity is produced industrially by nuclear fusion. We are also preparing for the production and propulsion of electric vehicles. I am puzzled by the electrification of passenger car traffic. Why? And how much will electric cars cost the country? If you haven't read the articles, I highly recommend it (JIT 9 and 10/18) Electric cars are neither ecologically clean nor carbon neutral. It seems to me utterly stupid to reward citizens who buy such cars with subsidies and to give them the false consciousness that by buying such a car they are actually contributing to a cleaner environment.Here again, the fact that such cars are examples for cities prevails, since they actually cause (in the final sum, however, greater) pollution elsewhere. I believe that the next generation of internal combustion engines, combined with a lightweight 48V hybrid (perhaps plug-in) system to enable clean urban driving, will be by far the most environmentally friendly personal transport vehicles, with hydrogen propulsion as the ultimate goal.

In view of the above, I propose to adapt the regulations to the actual situation. Subsidies for ecologically controversial all-electric vehicles should be stopped - at least until more appropriate systems for storing electricity have been developed. Subsidies should be given to vehicles with genuinely low emissions.