Dear reader,
the ball is rolling in Qatar, but that almost seems secondary. Qatar is talked about for other reasons. Thousands of dead guest workers, human rights trampled on, a bought staging in winter – this World Cup will go down in history as a scandal.
The negative mood is also threatening to rub off on some mobility groups. Some are closely linked to Qatar. The emirate holds 17 percent of the ordinary and a good 11 percent of the preferred shares in Volkswagen through its sovereign wealth fund.
Qatar has also invested in Porsche, Hapag-Lloyd and Siemens. A brand new railway infrastructure – a pipe dream in this country – built in the emirate, you can hardly believe it, the Deutsche Bahn. Economically understandable. But you don’t collect any points for your image.
Our other topics of the week:
Why the German car manufacturers are threatened with an electrode aster
How much Daimler Truck works council chief Michael Brecht fears de-industrialization
Why Sixt Co-CEO Alexander Sixt does not see billions in business in mobility services
Top topic: Why the German car companies are heading for an electrode desaster
Mercedes, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW – they have all announced major electric offensives, the car bosses are overturning with public confessions. But most haven’t gotten that far. They were taken by surprise by the rapidity with which their hitherto highly lucrative business was changing. A disaster is imminent
, report my colleagues Margret Hucko and Michael Freitag.
Heads: Michael Brecht ++ Daniela Cavallo ++ Klaus Roewe ++ Jean Castex
Deep Drive of the Week: Gen Z and Cars
Generation Z – people born between 1997 and 2012 – are said to have little interest in cars. Whether that’s true, wanted the advice Horyzn.io
find out. If you believe the report, Gen Z cars associate cars with freedom even more than Gen X.
Number of the week: 0.12
Aiways also wants to get involved in China’s attack on Europe’s car market. Now the brand is repositioning itself, with Chairman Xuanlin “William” Chen stepping down from his post to former CEO Yang “Charlie” Zhang. Xiaochuan “Matthew” Qiu takes on his role. Aiways sells the castling as “Handing over the scepter after a successful brand launch”
. In Germany there is little to see. Since October 2020, the federal government has only received 1010 funding applications for the U5 SUV. at total 874,357 e-car applications
this corresponds to a share of 0.12 percent.
wrong-way driver of the week
We got on with Qatar, we’re getting off with Qatar. Logistically, too, things don’t always go smoothly at the football World Cup in the emirate. Commentator Wolff-Christoph Fuss missed parts of the opening ceremony. His bus driver did not know the way to the stadium and was “put five kilometers in the wrong direction”. Fuss would have preferred to travel by (German) train.
I wish you a trouble-free week.
Sincerely yours, Christoph Seyerlein
Do you have requests, suggestions, information that we should take care of journalistically? You can reach my colleagues in the Mobility team and me at manage.mobility@manager-magazin.de
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