Once we located a charging point, we met a Tesla driver waiting for his car to finish charging. He told us that he loves his “toy”, but that he has needed to change his habits quite a lot. He has a private charging station on his property and his company, like some other German companies, is changing its fleet to electric vehicles and providing charging stations. He mentioned that it must be even harder to have an electric car without a private charging station, or supported stations in nearby locations such as workplaces. The search for a free parking space in major cities is terrible as it is. On top of this, it is virtually impossible to find a charging station with the right plug. We asked him why Germany is so behind the times when it comes to this technology. He said that the former German government, back in 2012, announced a target of having one million electric cars by 2020 (Bundesregierung, 2012) – but in 2017, the chancellor revoked this target without setting a new policy (Mortsiefer, 2017). Since then, e-mobility in Germany has not been a top priority on the German political agenda.