Dear reader, dear reader,
The sole of the valley seems to go through: electric cars are no longer shopkeeping in Germany. In May, the number of new registrations of electrical cars increased by 45 percent compared to the same month of the previous year. 18 percent of all new cars on the street were Stromer.
Nevertheless, the calls do not tear after new state purchasing incentives. Imelda Labbé (57), President of the Importeur Association VDIK, says: “Only if car buyers reliably know what costs will be available when buying or leasing will choose an electric car”, an “e-car booster” is needed. Elsewhere, booster letters are even written to the highest political bodies. You can read more about this in one of our topics of the week:
Mathias Miedreich (50) has been the Lord of the Gearway at ZF Friedrichshafen since January. Not too long ago, he would have been something like the Kösus with the car supplier, ZF is world famous for its combustion gears. But it came as a fireman. The transformation towards electromobility causes the “division E” pain, the supplier loses a lot of money with electrocomponents. As soon as there was a forced area, the bomb burst: ZF wants to re -establish the unit, which many see as the “heart” of the supplier. Since then there has been uncertainty from Saarbrücken to Schweinfurt, which is coming. A carve-out with a partner? Or even that unthinkable: a withdrawal? We met Mathias Miedreich and talked to him about his ideas for the first time
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Volkswagen has written the reduction of 35,000 jobs in Germany by the end of the decade. Apparently the car manufacturer is making a lot of progress: Around 20,000 withdrawals are already “fixed”. Financially, this may help the company in the medium term. For those who stay, the mass exodus also has negative side effects. Works council chief Daniela Cavallo (50) presented a long list of defects at the most recent company meeting: In production, there would always be failures, employees would sometimes suck their offices themselves and the staff was missing at the meal edition. Economic Wonderland Wolfsburg was once.
In 2019, the average new car in Germany rolled from the dealer yard for 30,163 euros. In 2024 he cost an average of 41,781 euros. A full increase of 39 percent in just five years. Really cheap models are almost completely disappeared. One Oliver-Wyman analysis
shows the insane extent: In 2019, 512,000 cars were sold in Germany at prices between 10,000 and 15,000 euros. 2024? Just 20,000.
Elon Musk (53) had just said goodbye to the President of Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), when the Tesla boss also freaked out. Shortly before the decisive vote in the Senate, Musk raged against Trump’s planned tax law. Critics see a accumulation of election gifts in the planned law to some of the rich Trump clientele groups. Musk expressed less chosen: what the president considers a “Big Beautiful Bill” is actually a “disgusting hideousness” that would continue to drive up the budget deficit and the public debt. Rage instead of dog.
Come through the week well.
Your Christoph Seyerlein
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