Auto industry in the crisis
“Brenner has a future”: Söder wants to tip EU burners
The auto industry fights with tariffs and the competition from Asia. Now CSU boss Markus Söder has renewed an old demand-but not much of the experts.
CSU boss Markus Söder has renewed his demand to tilt the EU-wide banned EU-wide cars with internal combustion engines from 2035. The Bavarian Prime Minister wants to support the troubled German auto industry. “The combustion engine has a future with e-fuel and new technologies. The EU burner ban 2035 endangers hundreds of thousands of jobs,” said Söder the “Bild am Sonntag”.
The car becomes a question of fate in German industry. “It is the heart of our economy – a collapse threatens without a car.”
The demand is part of a ten-point plan that Söder worked out in Munich before the start of the IAA Mobility’s International Auto Mobility. Industry expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer sees it “but rather a smorgasbord” than an action plan.
In his ten-point plan, Söder also demanded the revision-i.e. reduction-the CO2 savings targets, an expansion of the charging infrastructure, also for buses, strengthening the supply industry, the development of autonomous driving and the reduction of the costs for the driver’s license.
Greens criticize Söder: “Totengräber of the German automotive industry”
The chairwoman of the Greens parliamentary group, Katharina Dröge, is in principle open to a minor shift of the ban. However, the demand for a complete abolition is problematic, she said in the ARD “Report from Berlin”. Söder thus makes himself a “graved graver of the German automotive industry”.
Dudenhöffer also warned: “Anyone who talks about the ban on combustion is unsettled by car buyers. Unexplained car buyers are bad buyers.” If you are not sure whether the combustion engine or the electric car is more sustainable, you prefer not to buy a car at first, believes the expert. And that is what the manufacturers who currently put billions in the development of electric cars the most. “So don’t buy electric cars now? Very contradictory, what the Bavarian Prime Minister demands.”
Söder’s demand for a cheaper driver’s license, on the other hand, supports Dudenhöffer, but asks: “And how does that work exactly?” According to the experts, more charging stations, especially for buses, are a sensible demand: “The municipal utilities then build the charging stations. The suppliers have something to do and it would be a pleasure for the German car manufacturers to build the electric buses.”
Merz is planning top meetings with the car industry
Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) announced after the recent top meeting of the coalition that he wants to invite the German carmakers and their suppliers to a dialogue for the future of the auto industry. The auto industry has to deal with sales, competition from China and the change to e-mobility. In addition, there is the customs dispute with the USA.
VW boss Oliver Blume said the “Bild am Sonntag”: “We welcome the federal government to invite you to an automotive summit.” Put on drives flexibly, at the same time the future belongs to e-mobility. Mercedes boss Ola Källenius said: “We are at a point that decides on the future of our industry and its jobs-and thus about the competitiveness of Germany and Europe.”
lib
Source: Stern
I have been working in the news industry for over 6 years, first as a reporter and now as an editor. I have covered politics extensively, and my work has appeared in major newspapers and online news outlets around the world. In addition to my writing, I also contribute regularly to 24 Hours World.
