Dear reader, dear reader,
So on Wednesday it is said to have been “liberation day”. US President Donald Trump (78) wants to herald a “golden age” for the United States. For the best idea on the way there he thinks a wild bundle of tariffs. Many think that is a wrong way. The big tremor is around in the auto industry. Is the second largest world market to false to China with the United States? VDA President Hildegard Müller (57) was recently alerted in the interview: “America First means more and more America Alone.”
Some US auto buyers apparently also became nervous whether the impending price increases were given before the tariffs come into force: Brands such as VW and BMW were able to sales in the USA in March Screw noticeably up.
Our topics of the week:
How a more punctual German railway would be possible.
How Klaus Rosenfeld secures the flows of the Schaefflers.
How PricewaterhouseCoopers want to halve emissions without travel bans.
Topic of the week: “Every fourth signal box still comes from the imperial period”
A new federal government should not fail because of the money, and a special fund is available by a special fund. Some of them will flow into Deutsche Bahn. Michael Peter (59) may benefit particularly from this. The head of Siemens Mobility is already hurried as a manufacturer of trains, signal box or signaling technology from sales record to the record record. One of his main customers, the train, is presented in a pitiful state. Germany’s rail is “as modern as a turntable phone,” says Peter, “every fourth signal box still dates from the imperial era”. Is a punctual German railway still possible? Yes, says the top manager. In an interview with my colleague Claas Tatje, Peter describes, What would have to happen in his view
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Why do you buy a car that costs more than 150,000 euros? McKinsey is the question of how luxury car owners tick, in a detailed analysis
investigated this exquisite market. The everything that is outstanding for a purchase: the joy of driving; 86 percent of the luxury drivers surveyed stated that. Certain skepticism apparently counteracts Chinese models and electric cars in the corresponding circles. 71 percent cannot imagine considering a Chinese brand, only 19 percent flirting with an electric car.
Number of the week: 458 million
If you have a car that is no longer driving, you have the right to free disposal in the EU. The manufacturer is in duty, he has to take the car back and recycle. In order to avoid this, the EU Commission believes that 15 carmakers and the ACEA lobby association had illegally agreed for over 15 years. The “cartel” should now pay 458 million euros. Volkswagen gets the highest penalty with 128 million euros, and BMW, Stellantis or Renault are also asked to checkout. Mercedes, on the other hand, gets away as a key witness.
Donald Trump should have few fans in the car scene. A lance for him, on the other hand, breaks Trevor Milton (42). The founder of the Skandal truck start-up Nikola was personally pardoned by the president. Milton was sentenced to four years in prison in 2022, the jury had found him guilty of giving investors incorrect information about the status of Nikola technology. No problem for Trump. The case has several tastes: Last year Milton donated almost $ 2 million for political purposes, a large part of it to the Republican Party. According to the “Wall Street Journal”, Milton’s lawyer is the brother of US Justice Minister Pam Bondi (59). Probably the one who has such friends.
Come through the week well.
Your Christoph Seyerlein
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