Tag: Automotive occupation
Industry outlook: Auto suppliers are becoming a two-tier society
Düsseldorf, Stuttgart At the start of the world’s largest electronics trade fair, CES, ZF board member Martin Fischer summed up where the trend in the automotive supplier industry is headed…
Around 60,000 additional jobs by 2040
Assembly of a Porsche engine The construction of electric vehicles is less labor-intensive than that of combustion engines. (Photo: dpa) Berlin If the desired mobility turnaround becomes a reality, around…
Car manufacturers’ situation worsens for the fifth month in a row
Production of an electric SUV A Volkswagen employee assembles the side door of a VW ID.4. (Photo: dpa) Munich According to the Ifo Institute, the situation in the German auto…
Car manufacturers’ situation worsens for the fifth month in a row
Production of an electric SUV A Volkswagen employee assembles the side door of a VW ID.4. (Photo: dpa) Munich According to the Ifo Institute, the situation in the German auto…
Germany will probably miss climate targets for 2022 and 2023
Robert Habeck “We will probably still miss our targets for 2022, even for 2023 it will be difficult enough.” (Photo: AP) Berlin Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and…
The automotive industry sees the expansion of electromobility at risk
Fast charging park for e-cars Around 300 new charging points are currently being installed every week – far too few in the opinion of the VDA. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The…
Material shortages in the industry are worsening
Shipping container The international supply chains are still disrupted. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to the Ifo Institute, the shortage of materials in German industry worsened again in December. Almost 82…
Herbert Diess: Against the current
Herbert Diess He relies entirely on electromobility. In all honesty: As a co-owner of a family-run, medium-sized automotive supplier, writing a laudation for the CEO of one of his largest…
IG Metall boss Jörg Hofmann threatens VW boss Herbert Diess
IG Metall boss Hoffmann Even after the settled dispute with the VW group management, the unionist flexed his muscles. Frankfurt After the management crisis at Volkswagen was resolved, IG Metall…
Continental participates in start-up Apex.AI
Car software Continental relies on cooperation in the development of car operating systems. (Photo: Elektrobit) Dusseldorf One of the most important tasks for car manufacturers and suppliers at the moment…
E-fuels instead of mass layoffs: Suppliers are sounding the alarm
Worker at ZF Combustion engines and transmissions will hardly be needed in the future if cars are purely electric. (Photo: dpa) Brussels In Brussels there is often talk of a…
Less money with the IAA, VDA membership fees rise sharply
IAA in Munich – no longer the big money maker IAA in Munich in September: significantly fewer visitors came to the exhibition grounds than in the past. The open spaces…
Bosch employees protest at three locations
Stuttgart, Munich For the future Bosch boss Stefan Hartung, Friday morning should offer a foretaste of the most difficult topic of his term of office, which begins on January 1:…
Bosch employees protest at three locations
Stuttgart, Munich For the future Bosch boss Stefan Hartung, Friday morning should offer a foretaste of the most difficult topic of his term of office, which begins on January 1:…
Fresenius Medical Care wants to cut hundreds of jobs in Germany
Fresenius Medical Care The group announced an austerity program at the beginning of November. (Photo: imago images / Jörg Halisch) bad Homburg The planned reduction of 5,000 jobs worldwide at…
Why BMW boss Zipse considers the combustion ban to be harmful to the climate
More than 100 countries, cities and car manufacturers signed a declaration on emission-free mobility by 2035 at the climate summit in Glasgow. BMW refused to sign. CEO Oliver Zipse considers…
Daimler CEO Källenius, BMW CEO Zipse and VW CEO Diess on the transformation of the automotive industry
Dusseldorf At the Handelsblatt Auto Summit in 2021, Daimler boss Ola Källenius declared that he would be focusing on emission-free cars by 2035. In doing so, he agreed to the…
E-mobility & the automotive industry in Germany: How to do it faster
The automotive industry is the most important branch of industry in Germany. In order for it to stay that way in times of climate change, a rethink is necessary. At…
This is what awaits you on the second day of the Handelsblatt Auto Summit
Handelsblatt Auto Summit 2021 Stuttgart Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess usually doesn’t mince his words. He has set himself the task of leading Europe’s largest car company through the transformation into…
New VW plant for e-cars in Wolfsburg?
Volkswagen main plant in Wolfsburg The work dates from the 1950s and 60s (Photo: dpa) Wolfsburg Volkswagen will probably build a completely new factory for its latest generation of electric…