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Peter Vanham, Nicholas Gordon

Germany has only itself to blame for missing EV wave

(Credit: Tobias Schwarz—AFP via Getty Images)

Good morning. Peter Vanham here in Geneva, back from a short Labor Day trip to Germany.

Riding along Bavaria’s idyllic towns and roads this weekend, I could easily see that most people there still stick with the region’s pride: BMW cars. But I could also see the uphill challenge facing Germany's car industry: EVs and EV infrastructure were few and few in between.

How Germany fares in the EV saga will become clear in the next few years, and it may well become a cautionary tale. 

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