Germany to have 1 million electric cars on the road in July - paper

FILE PHOTO: An electric car parks next to charging stations in Ostfildern near Stuttgart, Germany, August 19, 2019. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will in July have 1 million electric cars on the road, hitting its target six months late, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier told Tagesspiegel daily on Friday, saying subsidy programmes had boosted demand.

"We will reach our target of 1 million electric cars by 2020, which everyone thought was unattainable, this July, just six months late," the minister was quoted as saying.