Patience is a virtue. Ferdinand Oliver Porsche (62) obviously has a lot of it. For many years he has had a say on the supervisory boards of Volkswagen, Porsche and Audi, pestering the boards of directors with critical questions. He doesn’t push himself into the public eye. In the Porsche Piëch clan, this role is reserved for Wolfgang Porsche (80) and Hans Michel Piëch (81). Given the age of the two, number 3, Oliver Porsche, is likely to move to number 1 in the foreseeable future. Not much is known about the heir to the throne, but my colleague Michael Freitag changes that. He describes him Prince Charles of the Autodynasty
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It wasn’t that long ago that people flocked to one IAA
almost a million more visitors. In 2015 there were over 930,000 in Frankfurt. A good half a million people came to the motor show in Munich that just ended. Different time, different city, different concept, a direct comparison seems unfair. VDA President Hildegard Müller (56) considers the latest edition to be a “great success”. What will happen next with the IAA is still unclear. There is no contract for 2025 yet.
Deep Drive: The Multi-Transformation of the Auto Industry
Electromobility, autonomous driving, digitalization – the automotive industry is currently transforming on several levels. What impact do the many changes have on which market? Forecasts are provided by the “Digital Auto Report
” from Strategy&. Its authors, for example, expect that two thirds of all new cars sold in Europe will be electric cars in 2030, and then practically all of them (96%) in 2035. According to the analysis, electric car penetration will not be complete in the USA and China advance so brutally.
“Young and independent – record number of car owners under 24!” On Tuesday, the Federal Ministry of Transport (BMDV) announced graphic
, where it wasn’t just the sound of cheering that was irritating. The values did not match the length of the bars; Minister Volker Wissing’s (53) social media team later corrected the numbers. But the updated version also raises questions. The BMDV speaks of 188,000 vehicle owners between the ages of 18 and 24. Loud Federal Motor Transport Authority
(KBA) – which the ministry refers to via “BILD” – but there are almost 1.1 million. And not only that: the official one KBA statistics
According to this, a good 25,000 more vehicles were registered to owners from that age group in 2020. Sounds less like a record and more like a calculation error.
I wish you an eventful week.
Kind regards, Christoph Seyerlein
Do you have any wishes, suggestions or 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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