Angela Merkel invites you to the "Car Summit".
The future of the auto industry with hundreds of thousands of jobs is at stake.
Are gasoline and diesel engines stalling?
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Berlin - After the "corona summit" is before the "car summit": It rises on Tuesday evening with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), the heads of government of the federal states and representatives of the German and international automotive industry.
The latter expect answers and support from politics.
The discussion will focus on structural change in the industry.
Should it fully rely on climate-friendly drives such as e-mobility?
Will the internal combustion engine be sidelined?
What is the German policy on stricter EU pollutant limit values?
And above all: What does this all mean for the hundreds of thousands of jobs that are directly affected by these questions?
A heated discussion broke out in the run-up to the “Auto Summit” - mainly because the future of internal combustion engines is also at issue today.
IG Metall sees the desired structural change in the automotive industry, for example, as being associated with considerable risks for employment.
The first chairman of the union, Jörg Hofmann, therefore warned against a premature and premature end of the internal combustion engine.
ADAC technology president Karsten Schulze also warned of a fixed ban on the internal combustion engine.
He is certain that such a step would stifle the innovation potential that he still attributes to gasoline and diesel engines today.
Meanwhile, Germans are becoming increasingly skeptical about e-cars, as reported by BW24 *
"Car summit" with Merkel: From 2030 the Greens only want to allow emission-free cars
As expected, the Green politician Cem Özdemir takes a slightly different point of view than IG Metall.
He told the German Press Agency in the run-up to the “Auto Summit”: “We Greens only want to allow new emission-free cars from 2030 so that everyone involved finally has planning security Employees and the climate.
The problem with the whole thing: Especially with many small and medium-sized suppliers, many jobs are currently attached to the combustion engine.
A total of around 850,000 direct employees currently work in the automotive industry in Germany.
The manufacture of electric vehicles is less labor intensive.
There may be thousands of jobs at stake.
Before Merkel's “car summit”: rumors about climate target emergency brake and new emission limits
The “fuel vs. electric drive” duel is particularly explosive in the European context: The European Union (EU) is planning far more stringent climate targets by 2030. That would mean significantly more electric vehicles.
In addition, plans are to be submitted to the EU Commission in June for stricter exhaust emission limits, which should come into force as early as 2025.
"If the rumors are confirmed, this would herald a premature and premature end of the combustion engine without any alternatives being available," warned IG Metall chairman Jörg Hofmann.
“It mustn't come to that,” he said in the run-up to today's “car summit”.
IG Metall positions itself clearly on the combustion side, but still supports the introduction of the planned Euro 7 emissions standard - at least if the corridor of what is feasible is adhered to.
"Autogipfel": Complete zero emissions is "technically impossible, and everyone knows that"
Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) recently spoke out against a short-term tightening of exhaust gas regulations by the EU, which regulate pollutant emissions from cars and trucks such as nitrogen oxides.
"The Ministry of Transport will take a very negative position in the Euro 7 debate," he told "Welt am Sonntag".
Despite the resolutions, the limit values must remain technically feasible.
The President of the Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), Hildegard Müller, had already warned in November 2020 of a de facto end for cars with internal combustion engines from 2025: “The Commission wants to stipulate that in future a vehicle must remain virtually emission-free in every driving situation - be it with a trailer on the mountain or in slow city traffic.
That is technically impossible, and everyone knows it. ”* BW24
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