It's time to act... And so says the boss of VW. ( He's right ! )

Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess advocates a significant acceleration in the development of the charging infrastructure for electric cars in Europe. "We need a European Masterplan for e-mobility", said the CEO at the Volkswagen Group's New Year's reception in Brussels. The EU must provide binding expansion plans for each individual member state, he said. Diess also called on the European Union to help those countries that have the biggest catch-up process ahead of them. Only if there were sufficient charging points could electric cars really establish themselves on the market. The Netherlands was particularly progressive in this respect, while Germany was only in the middle of the field. “The Netherlands has almost 20 charging points per 100 kilometres of road, in Germany it is less than three,” Diess said. “A million charging stations is not a moon-shot project.”

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Over the past decade, the Netherlands has made swift progress in expanding its infrastructure to support plug-in electric vehicles. Data from the Dutch-based Bond van Automobielhandelaren en Garagehouders shows that in 2011, the country had 1,826 charging stations, a figure that hit 33,607 this year. Last month, Vattenfall's Dutch subsidiary Nuon announced it was teaming up with McDonald's to equip every drive-thru restaurant nationwide with two fast charging points. The effort is expected to add 168 stations to the country's total.

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Over the past decade, the Netherlands has made swift progress in expanding its infrastructure to support plug-in electric vehicles. Data from the Dutch-based Bond van Automobielhandelaren en Garagehouders shows that in 2011, the country had 1,826 charging stations, a figure that hit 33,607 this year. Last month, Vattenfall's Dutch subsidiary Nuon announced it was teaming up with McDonald's to equip every drive-thru restaurant nationwide with two fast charging points. The effort is expected to add 168 stations to the country's total.A recent report from KPMG analysed countries' readiness to adopt autonomous vehicles and as part of that analysis, it looked at the number of electric vehicle charging points per 100 kms of paved road. The report used International Energy Agency data and it found that the Netherlands is firmly ahead of all other developed countries with 19.3 charging stations per 100 kms. China has 3.5, still rather impressive given the size of the country and its huge population. The UK has 3.1, ahead of Germany's 2.8.