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"It will be an electric car with a solar-panel roof, designed for the city and small trips," Ronald Gerschewski, head of IndiKar, the original Trabi manufacturer, told reporters. (See the history of the electric car.)
Just a p.r. gag or does a new electro-Trabi have a chance of rising from the cold ashes of history to rule the roads in Germany? That remains to be seen. But the dream of an electric autobahn is clearly taking hold in Germany. The German government last week...
The makers of the Trabi aren't the only German car manufacturers turned on by the dream of electric cars. Volkswagen says it will launch an electric car by 2013, while Daimler, the maker of powerful gas-guzzling Mercedes-Benz limousines, has teamed up with power utility RWE for a...
Many German commentators saw the government announcement as little more than an political p.r. gimmick. Still, the liberal Süddeutsche Zeitung saw the announcement as a sign of how technology once considered a pipe dream has moved firmly into the mainstream of public debate. "Electric cars are no longer...
A million electric cars may sound like a big deal considering that there are only 1,452 such vehicles on German roads today. But Germany registers more than 3.7 million new cars every year. "Even if the government reaches its goal, it would still only affect 2% of the cars...