W I was worried Svenja Schulze I went on vacation. Maybe with plane, ship, car, cow, something pollutantunwreibreibendem stop. But then the Federal Environment Minister appeared in the Rhineland, where she found out about the hardware retrofitting she loved for old diesels. Because the minister wants to avoid driving bans. The same thing that has now announced Stuttgart. That the ban only the newest pollutant classes are excluded and older engines never and never reach Euro 6, that the conversion costs 3000 to 5000 euros, no matter, he must.
The industry is too stupid. It is still based on technical feasibility and asks if anything pays off instead of investing where it finds the published opinion chic. The electromobility that solves all problems, for example. It does not get going because the restless customer does not want to spend 50,000 euros on a 150-kilometer range. But if the auto industry, drowsing any progress, does not subito build cell manufacturing in Germany, it will go under.
And this has nothing to do with cell production with imprisoned Audi VW Porsche managers. The battery cells make wonderfully half a dozen companies, all from Asia, but no less competitive. The competence, how it becomes powerful batteries for cars, drills and bicycles, lies in the interconnection and control. German industry needs to acquire this expertise, and it does, but who listens when the other one is much more popular?
Funny: The snoring BMW, Mercedes, VW and their sedated suppliers from Bosch to Continental have been petering out for a hundred years, and yet customers around the world do not want anything more than these backward German boxes. But that will probably change with combined forces.