Are you sure? Genuine question. This is talking about “car industry” and while I agree with you that the manufacturers have been emphasising the need for clear guidelines for security in planning, I also think that the attached automotive supplier ecosystem we currently have in Germany would have difficulties to continue in this scale in a fully EV-converted automotive industry. So someone like Söder wants ICEs back in order for the industry to continue as always.
E, for clarification: …which is doomed to fail, obviously
Oh, if you include the complete supply chain in the “car industry” there are surely some people who want to desperately stick with combustion engines for lack of another perspective.
But those don’t justify the massive amount of political and media coverage that always pretends (quite explicitly even) that it’s the big producers (thus employers) speaking and not some small “we produce a few parts for the manual transmission exclusively” - or “we are the leading supplier for fuel pumps”-companies that are complaining.
Given the last ICE German Car I bought (BMW) caught fire after 2 years while I was driving it and their only answer has been “shit happens, fuck you”, I’d say it’s only good if they get fucked by the market moving to EVs and maybe learn to put their customers at the center of their strategy again instead of focusing purely on getting as much public funds as possibile to keep producing shit
Are you sure? Genuine question. This is talking about “car industry” and while I agree with you that the manufacturers have been emphasising the need for clear guidelines for security in planning, I also think that the attached automotive supplier ecosystem we currently have in Germany would have difficulties to continue in this scale in a fully EV-converted automotive industry. So someone like Söder wants ICEs back in order for the industry to continue as always.
E, for clarification: …which is doomed to fail, obviously
Oh, if you include the complete supply chain in the “car industry” there are surely some people who want to desperately stick with combustion engines for lack of another perspective.
But those don’t justify the massive amount of political and media coverage that always pretends (quite explicitly even) that it’s the big producers (thus employers) speaking and not some small “we produce a few parts for the manual transmission exclusively” - or “we are the leading supplier for fuel pumps”-companies that are complaining.
Given the last ICE German Car I bought (BMW) caught fire after 2 years while I was driving it and their only answer has been “shit happens, fuck you”, I’d say it’s only good if they get fucked by the market moving to EVs and maybe learn to put their customers at the center of their strategy again instead of focusing purely on getting as much public funds as possibile to keep producing shit