Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) has asked Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) to make more money available to support private charging stations for electric cars.
Due to the unbroken high demand, the funds of a funding program in the amount of 500 million euros only lasted until this Thursday, wrote Scheuer in a letter to Scholz.
The letter was available to the German Press Agency.
Scheuer asked the finance minister to add a further 200 million euros to the program from existing resources from the energy and climate fund.
"Stopping at this point in time would send a bad signal in the middle of the ramp-up phase of electromobility in Germany."
The program is a huge incentive for accelerated electric vehicle purchases, the letter said.
The charging of electric vehicles in private parking spaces is of central importance for the development of a high-performance and reliable charging infrastructure network.
With the program, the federal government is promoting the installation of so-called wall boxes.