“If you keep diesel cheap… nobody will buy an electric car, it’s impossible,” he said. Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, director of the Center for Automotive Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, called the government’s diesel strategy “depressing and incomprehensible”. Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, an expert in the automotive sector, thinks Merkel’s strategy for the car industry is “depressing and incomprehensible”. But the Sueddeutsche Zeitung lamented in August that “with her overly generous attitude towards the car industry, the chancellor has helped neither the companies nor the country in the medium term”. Existential crisisWith the momentum for greener mobility growing, and with tougher anti-pollution guidelines in place, Germany’s car manufacturers are now no longer able to put off the inevitable.

Source: The Local September 07, 2021 07:52 UTC