Reuters: Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirmed her target to bring one million electric cars on to German roads by the end of the decade, despite evidence of dwindling consumer interest.
"You have a chancellor who believes in electromobility," she told a conference to promote electric car technology, less than 24 hours after the collapse of an Israeli electric car company.
Fewer than 3,000 electric cars were sold in Germany last year out of a total market that exceeded 3 million.
The German auto industry...