Dear reader, dear reader,
Mercedes boss Ola Källenius (56) has recently been happy to write letters. Current addressee is not for the first time: EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (66). As head of the European Autolobby Association ACEA, Källenius has teamed up with Schaeffler board member and supplier chief interest representative Matthias Zink (56).
On two sides, the duo is realized by the planned burner out of the EU in 2035. “We are asked to transform us while our hands are tied to our backs,” Källenius and Zinc complain. The CO2 goals that the EU made for 2030 and 2035 are “Just no longer feasible”.
The upcoming strategy dialogue in September is “the last opportunity of the EU to adapt its policies to today’s market, geopolitical and economic realities-otherwise it risks to endanger one of its most successful and worldwide most competitive industries”, Källenius and Zinc agree. How nice if you can briefly distract you from your own strategic faults together.
With technology of the Nexxiot start-up, logistics companies can check the location and the condition of their goods. Big names like Hapag-Lloyd swear by it. Knorr-Bremse was also impressed: in 2022 the group secured a third of the shares for 60 million euros. A bitter sweet deal for Nexxiot afterwards. CEO Stefan Kalmund (53) quarreled with the Knorr-Bremse boss Marc Llistosella (58), who started in 2023 and had to go in the summer of 2024, as a result, numerous top people fled. A problem for Llistosella? On the contrary, my insider. My colleague Margret Hucko reveals, Why the Knorr-Bremse boss may not even want to dissolve the unrest in Nexxiot
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At Mercedes, they were proud like Bolle on Monday: The pre -series car concept AMG GT XX “pulverized world records in series”, cheered the Swabians. For example, within 24 hours the model 5479 kilometers
Redged and thus 1518 kilometers more than the most persistent electric car so far. A German manufacturer who drives in front with an electric car? Chinese manufacturers obviously don’t want to let that sit on them. BYD spoke up on Tuesday. Nobel offshoot Yangwang has set up a new electric car best value with the U9 Track Edition: 472.41 km/h Topspeed
on a test track in Papenburg. Some drive far, the others quickly, but Mercedes and BYD have in common-they drive after the German e-sales charts.
Deepdrive: defective job engine
Until recently, a career in the car industry was considered a safe bank. In the meantime, the labor market is uncomfortable for young engineers, for example, Jan Brorhilker from EY. “We will see increasing unemployment in university graduates – something that has not existed in Germany for a long time.” According to an EY analysis, the German car industry last year Net 51,500 places broken away. It should come even thicker. Loud A survey of the Horváth advice
want to reduce four out of five automobile manufacturers and seven out of ten suppliers in Germany. However, there is a little hope: The majority of the car managers surveyed expects that the location conditions in Germany will improve in one to two years.
Ola Källenius and Matthias Zink want the end of the combustion engine. You can also argue about other EU initiatives. Last autumn she took electric cars with punitive tariffs. The protective shield for the local industry does not really seem well thought out. In order to avoid the tariffs, Chinese car manufacturers are sending more and more plug-in hybrids and combustion engines. But there are other ways: BYD has just packed his cargo ship Zhengzhou for the first time with cars that are screwed together in Thailand. Over 900 electric dolphin surf are on the road, Among other things to Germany
. Puncture? There are no electric cars built in Thailand. If the end of the burner in Brussels will soon be discussed, perhaps a revision of the tariffs should also be revised to the agenda.
Get well through the week!
Your Christoph Seyerlein
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