Germany reaches target of 1 million electric cars on its roads PUBLISHED BY Germany will have 1 million electric cars on the roads this July, though six months later than its set date, according to the country’s Economy Minister Peter Altmaier. ” 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 said, reports Reuters. “More bonuses have been taken up in the first half of 2021 than in the whole of last year,” he added, saying they amounted to 1.25 billion euros. He was referring to the subsidies that most governments offer to people buying electric vehicles. Subsidies were increased during the coronavirus pandemic.