Due to the transition to electromobility, around 215,000 jobs could be lost in the German car industry, about a quarter of the current number. It states study German car lobby. Also an agency Bloomberg recalls that the current state of the German economic engine does not guarantee 83 million people that it will generate a similar level of prosperity as it does now.
Before the election, the main German political parties do not argue with each other about the need to transform the automotive industry, but rather about how quickly the changes should take place.
The most radical Greens would ban the production of cars with internal combustion engines by 2030 and limit speed to 130 kilometers per hour on motorways and 30 kilometers in city centers. The European Commission is also fighting against internal combustion engines, but from 2035 it wants to ban “only” their sale.
In an effort to reduce the demand for individual motorized transport, the Greens would also cancel the construction of new roads. At the same time, Co-Chair Annalena Baerbock’s party would support the development of electromobility with additional subsidies. Poorer households could count on a contribution of three thousand euros over and above the current subsidies, which are doubled.
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The CDU also plans to support cars with alternative propulsion or charging infrastructure. According to Chancellor Candidate Armin Laschet, drivers should always be able to reach the charger within a maximum of ten minutes. In addition, it would promote the use of hydrogen and synthetic fuels in transport.
However, Laschet, like Social Democrat (SPD) candidate Olaf Scholz, refuses to set an end date for the production of conventional cars, according to the agency’s survey. Reuters. According to the SPD, the state should approach the transformation of automotive prudently without too much bureaucratic intervention, which would potentially jeopardize Germany’s current position in the industry.
The future of transport, and especially the individual one, is a topic that fundamentally affects the Czech Republic as well. About a third of its exports go to Germany, of which twenty percent is accounted for exclusively by cars and car parts. The domestic car industry per capita provides a livelihood of more than fifty percent more employees than in Germany. Due to the transition to structurally relatively simpler electric cars, many Czech suppliers of parts could lose orders.
“Transformation with the automotive industry will practice, but it will have to cope. But what is worse, we can later find out that electric cars will not reduce the carbon footprint, “he said in interview for the daily E15 Kvido Štěpánek, the owner of the Isolit-Bravo company from Jablonné nad Orlicí, which manufactures electrical appliances and products for the automotive industry.
Moreover, due to the expansion of American or Chinese competition, Germany is not sure that it will play a comparable role in the field of alternative propulsion vehicles as in the current classic car industry. In addition, the leading industrialists there lack a comprehensive vision for the next decade, which would allow not only the automotive industry, but the entire German economy to adapt to the digital realities of the 21st century.
“We are somewhat lacking in a clear picture of what European and German growth should look like by 2030,” he said. Bloomberg Deutsche Bank chief Christian Sewing. According to SAP top manager Christian Klein, the creation of a ministry for digitization would help the country. “Without industry transformation, we can’t stay competitive,” Klein said.
For many voters, however, there is probably no more important topic than what they will ride in the foreseeable future. A significant part of the electorate maintains a very reserved attitude towards electric cars. According to February survey almost sixty percent of German respondents said their next vehicle would probably not be electric. In this respect, the country lags far behind the people of Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands.
Only 1.5 percent of the current vehicle fleet in Germany runs at least in part on electricity. “I don’t know of any other state where so much national pride would be associated with a classic internal combustion engine,” the paper said The Guardian Giulio Mattioli from the Technical University of Dortmund.
