Germany Subsidizes Domestic EV Manufacturing - Why Are American Car Makers Not Competing For Mass Produced Alt Fuel Vehicles With Their "Ace In The Hole" FLEX-FUEL?

Co-publishers Note: German car makers and the German government are going to spend billions of Euro's to subsidize and promote Electric Vehicles built by German Manufacturers despite agreement that Electric Vehicles are THE ANTI-SOLUTION to the worlds mobility fuel crisis.

BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen are not competitive with the American car makers when it comes to the alternative fuel that can replace gasoline today - American Ethanol a "Made In The USA" locally produced, green, economical and renewable American fuel.

Why are the American companies not seizing a major competitive advantage by proclaiming that a preponderance of their new vehicles can safely use America's Freedom Fuel, High Octane E85 instead of more expensive and harmful to our babies, regular E10. It looks like to us that once again Detroit is ceding success to foreign car makers, like they did when they didn't compete with the Japanese back in the 60's and 70's...

I would have hoped that the stupid management would have already retired, but I see that nothing has changed in Detroit...too bad for my grandchildren and all Americans, too bad!

NEW YORK - April 28, 2016: The NACS Online reported that CNNMoney said that the German government is joining forces with BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen to urge consumers to buy more electric vehicles and hybrids.

Through a new incentive program, buyers will receive rebates of 4,000 euros on EVs and 3,000 euros ($4,500) for plug-in hybrids, up to a total of 1.2 billion euros ($1.4 billion). The government will put up half the money and the automakers will make up the rest, notes the news source.

Germany has a lower proportion of EVs than other large European countries, such as the U.K., France, Italy and Spain. The incentives “are designed to encourage drivers to swap to greener cars and boost the production of electric cars in Germany,” writes CNNMoney.

"Germany has been lagging behind other big European markets because they didn't offer any incentives...now they will be able to catch up," Al Bedwell, an autos expert at LMC Automotive, told the news source.

Currently there are about 50,000 EVs on the roads in Germany, a number that could reach 400,000 if the program takes off. Germany’s goal is to have 1 million EVs on the roads by 2020, and 5 million by 2030. However, experts say that target may be a stretch.

"The plan seemed overly ambitious...they left it until too late to introduce the incentives," Bedwell noted.

The German government is also planning to spend 300 million euros improving related infrastructure and build 15,000 new EV charging stations in the next three years, notes the news source.