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ministry will present its proposal at a summit in Berlin on
Tuesday between Chancellor Angela Merkel and chiefs from the
German car industry to discuss measures to raise the share of
electric cars on German roads.
The ministry wants the scheme to run until June 2018, after
which the amount will be reduced to a 3,000-euro incentive for
electric cars and 2,000 euros for plug-ins. The incentives
should not apply to luxury cars costing more than 60,000 euros,
the document said.
The incentives program will cost about 1.2 billion euros and
that will be shared equally between the government and the
industry. The finance ministry wants the program to run on a
first-come first-served basis so that the scheme will end once
funds run out.
The ministry said the federal government should ensure that one
in five of its own cars are electric from 2017. It said the
overall cost of promoting cars would be around 1 billion euros
for the federal government.
A finance ministry spokesman declined to comment.
(Reporting by Markus Wacket; Writing by Joseph Nasr; Editing by
Michelle Martin)
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