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In its domain, the Autobau, Europe’s vehicle industry has come under pressure. How realistic is it to keep competing with aggressive and turboschnell competition from Asia or North America in future tasks such as driving autonomous? Absolutely realistic, says Johann Jungwirth (52). He is a robo car officer of the Israeli supplier Mobileye – and thus, for example, an important figure for the autonomous projects of the Volkswagen Group.
Last week, Jungwirth asked himself at Manage: Mobility Live the questions of our subscribers and discussed with my colleague Claas Tatje where his optimism moves from. If you have missed the talk you can watch the recording here.
Our topics of the week:
Like a special bonus for IG Metaller, causes a violent argument
Why the air continues at ZF Friedrichshafen
Which car suppliers are the biggest
Topic of the week: Like a special bonus for IG Metaller, causes a violent dispute
Who was more successful in the struggle for the austerity course at Volkswagen: Board of Directors or works council? There is definitely a crystal -clear winner: IG Metall. The union around its chairman Christiane Benner (57) used its strong position to get a “union bonus” out of a “union bonus” despite all the crises in Wolfsburg. However, only members of IG Metall receive this. Anyone who belongs to the Christian Metall union (CGM), for example, goes away empty -handed. The CGM is now faced with a massive outlet wave. The union simply does not want to accept that, the chairman Sebastian Scheder (43) cooks: “We prepare complaints.”
Heads: Holger Klein ++ Martin Winterkorn ++ Omead Afshar ++ Jesus Malave ++ Jassem Al Zaabi
Whether Elon Musk (53) has already whispered that the competition in China will be even tougher? After eight months without growth in a row Tesla sold more cars there in June. The alarm bells are still likely to shrink: Xiaomi has just introduced its SUV Yu7. Supposedly 289,000 pre -orders of Xiaomi’s order books. No good news for Teslas Model Y. According to the Chinese media, it is whether such figures themselves BYD “jealous”
. The top dog was throttling its production to empty crowded camps. The mood at Lei Jun (55) should be quite different. The latest Bonanza pushes Xiaomi’s stock further – and made the company boss richest man of China
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DeepDrive: mood killer Stellantis
Satisfactory with the tendency down-this is how Germany’s brand car dealers describe the relationship with their manufacturers. In the youngest “Brand monitor”
The Institute for Automotive Economy awarded dealers the average grade of 3.26. A little worse than a year earlier (3.24), a little better than 2023 than the mood at the low point (3.41). However, you can hardly remember rosy times like 2018 (2.51) in the industry. Above all, not as a stellantis dealer: with Peugeot (3.82), Opel (3.94) and Citroën (4.11), three Stellantis stamps form the landsset. Porsche (2.47), Cupra- (2.69) and Seat dealer (2.78) are most satisfied.
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