Dear reader,
The car manufacturer VW and the supplier ZF Friedrichshafen each have more than 10,000 jobs at stake, Continental cannot escape its losses in the car business, and the profit warnings from Mercedes and BMW are shaking the stock market. In view of this mixed situation, Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (55) invited people to the car summit on Monday this week.
The problem: Those invited all had their demands ready. But the industry association VDA demanded something different than IG Metall, and while Volkswagen wants to postpone the tightening of CO2 emissions in 2025, BMW sees the ban on combustion engines in 2035 as a danger.
Habeck had it easy in the end. He wants to help. But not with Flash in the pan.
If the summit was intended to bring some calm to the industry, it did not succeed. Read our topics of the week:
Achim Dietrich (56), head of the works council at supplier ZF Friedrichshafen, is one of the feared among employee bosses. When he recently called for a “day of action” against the planned cuts of up to 14,000 jobs, visitors to the company headquarters asked whether they should be worried about the announced uprising? Well, it remained peaceful. But Dietrich has found a new enemy. My colleague Christoph Seyerlein tells us
, as he fights against the McKinsey consultants. And how he copied a tactic from Volkswagen role model Bernd Osterloh (68).
Heads: Franz Fehrenbach ++ Ola Källenius ++ Oliver Zipse ++ Gernot Döllner ++ Elon Musk
Diesel beats electric. That can’t be right, you say? But. 19 percent of German car owners would currently most likely buy a diesel-powered car, while only 15 percent would buy a battery-electric car. This is what the Deutsche Automobil-Treuhand (DAT) found out in its monthly survey. Two years ago, the data history is available, electric had already overtaken: 17 to 13. The gasoline engine remains far ahead with 42 percent. Maybe, dear Mr. Habeck, the electric drive needs a little boost.
Ghost driver of the week: Robo-Teslas
Tesla boss Elon Musk is mentioned more often in our newsletter, so it probably won’t surprise you that he appears a second time this week – as a wrong-way driver. The drive and battery technology of its Tesla vehicles is still considered leading. On the other hand, my colleague Jonas Rest has the so-called “Full Self Driving” software written about it repeatedly
, sometimes doesn’t control quite as precisely as hoped. Also the results of a fresh 1000 mile test from AMCI Testing is sobering: The human test drivers had to intervene every 13 miles.
Enjoy your week.
Yours, Michael Friday
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