When Günther Schuh (61) talks about electric cars, there are plenty of wrong conclusions – with the others. Above all, he is annoyed by this “fundamental mistake” of the industry: “That a good electric car can drive as far and as fast as a combustion engine and then costs as much.” Schuh, an engineer and a professor of mechanical engineering, thinks that such a hum is impossible. The batteries will not be cheap tomorrow either, he argues, for incorruptible physical reasons. He opposes the car manufacturer’s delusion: cheap e-speedsters with a small battery, only for the city. Because there “we have an urgent need”.
It didn’t stop at visioning. Schuh builds his own. His e.GO Mobile AG in Aachen developed and manufactured the e.GO Life: 3.35 meters short, about 100 kilometers range, available from 16,000 euros.
Or not to have.
The pompous start in May – North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Armin Laschet (58; CDU) took over