Germany plans to double financial aid援助, particularly to develop better, lighter batteries, which remain the brake on the technology's mass appeal群眾訴求. Cars which emit發出, 散發 virtually實質上 no carbon dioxide will be exempt豁免 from tax.
Despite its green reputation, Germany has been slower than other countries, like Japan, to develop electric cars.
It now aims to change this, but attitudes may be hard to change. It is a country where 'no speed limits on the motorway' is seen as sacrosanct不可侵犯的.
And it is the country of the BMW (car), though the luxury car-maker is now trying to develop lighter materials to make its vehicles greener.
Stephen Evans, BBC News, Berlin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/05/110518_witn_electric_cars_page.shtml
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