Berlin, Stuttgart Future Bosch boss Stefan Hartung expects a shortage of semiconductors for a long time to come. “You have to say it clearly: The chip crisis is not over,” Hartung told Focus magazine. “All of us as German industry are massively dependent on the delivery bottlenecks being eliminated. Every chip that is missing can mean that a steering system and subsequently an entire car cannot be built. That will still cost us a lot of energy throughout 2022.” At the turn of the year, Hartung took over the management of the world’s largest automotive supplier from Volkmar Denner.
The chip crisis can also threaten projects that are being pushed by the traffic light coalition, such as the goal of around 15 million fully electric cars on German roads by 2030. This cannot be achieved “if the global problems in the supply chains are not resolved soon. And that doesn’t just apply to the auto industry,” said Hartung, who was skeptical anyway: It remains to be seen whether the goal can be achieved. “This not only requires the raw materials, the batteries and the demand, which in turn depends heavily on the charging infrastructure.”
It’s not just about car production, but about social change and technological restructuring at all levels. The electricity that the vehicles then use should also be green.
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