The US Department of Energy now expects only about 250,000 electric cars by 2015 – 0.1% of all cars on America’s roads. Merkel recently admitted that Germany will not get anywhere near one million electric cars by 2020.
惨淡的数字迫使奥巴马和默克尔根据现实修正预期。目前，美国能源部预计2015年将只有250000辆电动汽车——占美国汽车总量的0.1%。默克尔最近也承认，德国断然无法在2020年达到100万辆电动车的目标。