VW works council boss Daniela Cavallo is calling on the federal government to provide more support for the ramp-up of electromobility. “Politicians must also support this, not just make guidelines that are correct,” said Cavallo at the dpa editor-in-chief conference on Monday in Berlin.

The short-term end of e-car funding last year did not help here, nor did discussions about openness to technology, she said. Cavallo admitted that it would probably be a long time before there could even be a female CEO.