Germany mandates service stations must include electric-car chargers – report

The German Government will soon introduce a law requiring service stations to provide fast chargers for electric vehicles.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the change at the Munich motor show last week, according to news outlet Reuters, confirming 80 per cent of the country's service stations will be forced to offer electric-car charging.

The new law will mandate the chargers have a minimum capacity of 150kW.

Germany, which has a population of approximately 83.2 million people, currently has a reported 1.2 million electric cars on its road, according to data to the end of April 2023.

However, it's understood there are only 90,000 public charging points in the European nation.

The chancellor also took the opportunity to downplay fears Chinese-made cars would overrun the industry.

"In the 1980s, it was said Japanese cars would overrun the market. Twenty years later it was cars 'made in Korea', and now supposedly [it's] Chinese electric cars," he said, adding the future of German car-makers is "beyond doubt".