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How Oliver Blume wants to prevent Volkswagen's decline
Internally, Porsche boss
Oliver Blume
(54) does not have the unambiguous nickname of the “poster boy”, but he is popular with everyone.
Externally, too, many rave about the upcoming Volkswagen boss.
However, huge tasks await Blume: Cariad, electric models, China - predecessor and still CEO
Herbert Diess
(63) leaves numerous construction sites.
My colleague Michael Freitag describes what Oliver Blume wants to do differently.
Heads: Carsten Spohr ++ Petra Mayer ++ Alexander Junge
A few weeks ago, Carsten Spohr
(55) and his Lufthansa board colleagues apologized to frustrated customers by email.
Delays, flight cancellations, lost luggage - the chaos at airports is often praised.
But the airline's problems go deeper, for example more and more premium passengers have recently migrated.
Spohr now wants to take countermeasures.
An expensive undertaking, as my colleague Michael Machatschke analyses.
Petra Mayer
(55) solves a piquant problem at engine builder Deutz.
She becomes the first woman on the board of Cologne.
In the spring, the company had made a fool of itself.
CEO Frank Hiller
(56) and Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Bernd Bohr
(65)
fell over the "Quotentorment", as my colleague Christoph Neßhöver writes .
Mayer will now be Head of Production.
It comes from ZF Friedrichshafen - more on that later.
Alexander Junge
(48) has a complex task as the board member responsible for electromobility at Aral.
Parent company BP is earning better than ever with fossil fuels.
Junge and his team, on the other hand, burn a lot of money for the construction of fast charging stations.
Can that prevent gas stations from going under in the medium term?
And do the tests at Aral go far enough?
In the interview, the manager answered our questions.
Company: ZF ++ VW ++ Mercedes ++ Nissan ++ Ford
Petra Mayer
could also be leaving
the supplier
ZF Friedrichshafen
for the following reason: the seat belt business that she managed there is up for sale.
ZF is also putting the axle division in the shop window.
And: the "people mover".
The prestige project with autonomous shuttles, for which the boss
Wolf-Henning Scheider
(60) had recently drummed massively.
Mostly to advertise.
We explain why ZF is starting the summer sale.
Missing masks on board determine the discussions about the trip to Canada by the federal government and a large business delegation.
The economic component of the trip was quite exciting.
For example, VW and Mercedes secured access to battery raw materials.
Herbert Diess
signed for Volkswagen
.
Technical director
Thomas Schmall
(58), responsible for the planned gigafactories and therefore also on site, did not call Diess his boss in a Linkedin post, but "my colleague".
Times are changing.
Meanwhile, Mercedes is also drawing a line in North America: An engine cooperation with Nissan has been running since 2014, after 2023 it will not continue.
The Swabians simply no longer have any use for the four-cylinder turbo engine built in the US plant in Decherd, which has previously been used in the GLE, for example.
The last remnants of a long-dead alliance with Renault and Nissan are also wound up;
we already reported.
An accident from April 2014 could
cost Ford
very dearly.
In the US state of Georgia, a couple died when their 2002 Ford F-250 overturned in an accident.
A court in Gwinnett County has now fined the automaker $1.7 billion because the vehicle's roof construction failed to provide adequate protection.
The two children of the victims complained.
Ford plans to appeal.
More mobility: Flixtrain ++ Tier ++ charging stations
The Russian Transmashholding was to
equip Flixtrain
with trains to compete with Deutsche Bahn.
But when Putin's army invaded Ukraine, those dreams were shattered.
Flix boss
André Schwämmlein
(40) is not discouraged by this.
Michael Machatschke reports on how the expansion plans should stay on track.
Expansion and hypergrowth were also very important at
Tier Mobility
until recently .
The Berlin e-scooter rental company incorporated five companies within a few months.
Now it comes to full braking.
Every sixth job will be cut, 180 employees will have to go.
Instead of growth, animal is now about existence.
Setting up a fast charging station can cost around 150,000 euros.
In order to get the money back in, it takes a lot of charging customers.
In order for the business with the e-pillars to be worthwhile at all, they have to be used to an average of at least eight percent, say Bain consultants
Eric Zayer
and
Ingo Stein
.
If you want to gain a foothold in the industry, you still have five chances to get started.
Which?
We reveal that here.
Number of the week: 80
We already spoke about Oliver Blume at the beginning.
On Tuesday, the news ticker once again stated that he also values e-fuels in addition to electric cars.
Some are now apparently expecting a combustion engine revival in Wolfsburg.
It probably won't come to that.
"We are assuming that e-cars will have a market share of around 80 percent for new registrations in the EU in 2030," predicts McKinsey car expert
Andreas Tschiesner
in "Auto, Motor und Sport".
Deep Drive of the week: What is the situation with the chip shortage?
The automotive industry has been moaning about a lack of semiconductors since the beginning of 2021.
There can be no more talk of relaxation.
In a dealer survey by Deutsche Automobil Treuhand in June,
92 percent
stated that it was very difficult to get hold of new cars.
A year earlier it was "only" 77 percent.
Car buyers should continue to be prepared for high prices and long waiting times.
ghost driver of the week
Spy thriller all about the Apple Car?
On July 7, 2018,
Zhang Xiaolang
wanted to fly from San Jose to China.
But the police prevented the departure.
What happened?
Zhang previously worked for Apple's Roboauto unit for several years.
He decided to switch to the Chinese electric car manufacturer XPeng - and apparently wanted to take secret data with him.
Earlier this week, Zhang pleaded guilty in court.
He faces up to ten years in prison.
I wish you a week without nasty surprises.
Sincerely yours, Christoph Seyerlein
