Car crisis
IG Metall and VDA demand better conditions for electric cars
Union and auto association are pushing for less strict CO2 regulations and better conditions for e-mobility in Europe. Over 50,000 jobs were lost in the car crisis in a year.
In the crisis of the auto industry, IG Metall and the VDA industry association are calling for an offensive of politics and less regulation in Europe. E-mobility remains the central and correct way to secure competitiveness and employment of the German automotive industry and its locations in the future, according to a joint letter.
However, the general conditions are insufficient for a quick run-up of e-mobility, IG Metall and VDA criticize before a meeting of the EU Commission with industrial representatives on Friday in Brussels. “Politics must finally improve the framework for electromobility all over Europe quickly and extensively,” they demand. “It has to flexible the CO2 regulations.”
“Jobs are lost every month”
Union and auto association referred to the crisis of the auto industry, which suffered from a sales flaut, competition in China and high US tariffs. “Currently, jobs in the automotive industry are lost every month in Germany, from June 2024 to June 2025 there were over 50,000.”
Pragmatic handling of hybrid technologies and renewable fuels are necessary. In this way, up to 200,000 jobs could be secured across Europe. Specifically, IG Metall and VDA require tax incentives to buy electric cars, a faster expansion of the charging infrastructure and cheaper charging current.
Call after turning away from the burner ban
In politics and business, calls will become louder after a departure from the planned ban on new burners in the EU from 2035, but also after changes in the requirements for CO2 fleet emissions. “One -sided political stipulations on certain technologies are not only the wrong economic policy path for this industry,” said Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the IAA.
Criticism came from the Nabu environmental association. “The future is electrical-the EU Commission President of Leyen clearly said that and the industry is presenting it on the IAA herself,” said NABU traffic expert Pauline Schur. “Anyone who now relies on short-term bogus solutions such as alternative fuels and plug-in hybrids will risk even more jobs in the future and make the climate crisis worse.”
dpa
Source: Stern
