Top topic: How Tesla benefits from a bot armada
There is no longer any doubt about
Tesla
's success. As is well known, the US electric car manufacturer is worth more on the stock exchange than the relevant competition put together.
The narrative of the successful tech company, which
has the most visionary boss ever in
Elon Musk (50), apparently also spread an army of fanbots on Twitter.
Like US researcher
David A. Kirsch
analyzed for the first time, automated Twitter accounts have been trumpeting the core messages about Tesla to the world for many years.
The professor has analyzed more than four million Tesla tweets from the decade since the IPO in 2010 – and can now describe patterns.
His conclusion: The bots were programmed to strengthen the Tesla story and the stock price.
We spoke to Kirsch and were able to read his study in advance.
Tesla, Musk and the Bot Army.
Heads: Sabine Maaßen ++ Klaus-Michael Kühne ++ Thorsten Seehars
Sabine Maassen
(56), labor director and board member at Audi for just a year, will not get a new contract.
In just a few weeks, Seat's Human Resources
Director Xavier Ros
is to take over her responsibilities, my colleague Michael Freitag found out.
Klaus-Michael Kühne
(84), logistics billionaire, now holds more than ten percent of the
Lufthansa
shares.
It could be even more, he said.
In addition, he is pushing into the supervisory board, not himself, but via a "suitable personality".
Thorsten Seehars
(49), CEO of the East Bavarian supplier
Grammer
for less than three years , also has to leave early.
Technology boss
Jens Öhlenschläger
(57) takes over on an interim basis before a suitable personality is found here as well.
Company: Boeing ++ Daimler Truck ++ Tesla ++ Ford/Volvo ++ Nio/BYD
Things are currently, well, turbulent
for
Boeing
boss
David Calhoun (65).
The aircraft manufacturer is struggling with quality problems, US trade unionists are shooting at management and a clear future course is simply not in sight.
In the industry - most recently
Ryanair
boss and top customer
Michael O'Leary
(61) - is already sneering and blaspheming.
Boeing's odyssey.
It can obviously be more fun to build trucks at the moment.
In any case, Daimler truck
boss
Martin Daum
(62) was able to shine with good first quarterly figures for 2022 and directly raised the forecast for the year as a whole.
Which factors are primarily responsible for the upswing.
S&P Dow Jones
kicks the electric car
maker Tesla
from its most important sustainability index, the S&P 500 ESG Index.
Among other things, the responsible manager Margaret Dorn
explained in a blog post
how the autopilot accidents and allegations of racism were dealt with .
Elon Musk
's reaction
via Twitter: "ESG is a scam."
After all, the oil giant
Exxon
is still in the top ten.
Speaking of ESG: A broad alliance of 28 corporations such as
SAP
or
Unilever
is calling on the
EU Commission
to regulate by law that from 2035 only zero-emission cars may be sold.
The car manufacturers Ford
and
Volvo
also signed the open letter for a ban on combustion engines
, garnished with demands for a better charging infrastructure.
Breathe easy in China.
The government of the communist state apparently wants to extend subsidies for electric cars.
Since its introduction in 2009, the equivalent of almost 14 billion euros has flowed into the market in order to strengthen domestic providers such as
Nio
,
BYD
or
XPeng
.
But Western companies also benefited.
Now the program is to be extended at least until 2023, the colleagues from Reuters report.
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Even more mobility: Argo AI ++ Dott ++ Deutsche Bahn
Who will win the race in autonomous driving?
The US company
Argo AI
sees itself once again in the fast lane.
According to CEO
Brian Salesky
, the company is "the first to put cars on the road in major cities during rush hour without a safety driver."
Namely in the US metropolises of Miami (Florida), Austin (Texas) and Washington.
Volkswagen
should also be happy about that
.
The Wolfsburg have invested billions in Argo.
E-scooter provider
Dott
is trying to do business in a market outside of Europe for the first time.
The company launched in Tel Aviv this week with 1,800 scooters.
After the presentation of the future interior of ICE trains, executives at
Deutsche Bahn
outdid each other with praise on social networks on Wednesday.
Among other things, the metaphor of the "300 km/h living room" ran through.
Sounds almost too fast and too good to be true.
If you still want to get an impression of what ICEs will look like from the end of 2023: this way .
Number of the week: 0
That’s how many cars were sold in April in the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai: not a single one – and therefore exactly 26,311 fewer in April 2021 due to the lockdown. Things didn’t go quite smoothly in Europe either: Here the market collapsed by 20.6 percent compared to the previous year a.
ghost driver of the week
Cars are notoriously scarce, even if they don't come from Shanghai.
Order freezes or delivery times of more than a year have long been part of everyday business life.
You can brag about it when you can deliver new cars faster.
Thought so well
Hyundai
.
Their Germany branch sent us a press release this week that even a few electric cars are currently available from their dealers.
And: If you now configure an electric car individually, you only have to wait (maybe) only six months.
Welcome to the car marketing world of 2022!
I wish you an eventful week!
Sincerely yours, Christoph Seyerlein