Tag: IF
Let the suppliers live
car industry The auto industry is becoming less profitable. Raw material costs rise and selling prices fall. (Photo: Kostas Koufogiorgos) The ritual is known. The big car manufacturers regularly ask…
Suppliers demand cost sharing from manufacturers
Paint shop at Porsche Unlike the suppliers, the car manufacturers recently reported record margins. (Photo: Porsche AG/Marco Prosch) Dusseldorf, Stuttgart In the automotive industry, the distribution battle between suppliers and…
Daimler Truck invests in tech start-up
Autonomous driving The digitization of cars, such as assistance systems or self-driving technology, requires operating software that, similar to computers or smartphones, enables functions and applications to be carried out…
Bosch is investing 500 million euros in green hydrogen
Stuttgart, Dusseldorf The war in Ukraine is disrupting the supply chains, raw material prices are skyrocketing, and the transformation to electromobility is also becoming a financial feat: In this difficult…
Weak core business – Conti boss Setzer is still waiting for a liberation
Nikolai Setzer The Continental boss continues to try to bring the core business back to profitability. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The liberation does not come. Continental CEO Nikolai Setzer will most…
Pepper Motion wants to convert trucks and buses to electric drives
Munich The high fuel prices could further accelerate the conversion of trucks and buses to electric drives. However, electric trucks are currently hard to come by and expensive to buy…
Out for CEO after only three months – Junker under pressure
Stuttgart The afternoon on Good Friday of all days was chosen by Mahle’s supervisory board chairman Heinz Junker (72) to announce the separation of CEO Matthias Arleth (54). With the…
The FDP and SPD oppose Habeck’s plans
Berlin Robert Habeck’s plan to end subsidies for hybrid cars early met with fierce resistance. “A final decision against the promotion of hybrids endangers the ramp-up of electromobility and thus…
Bosch acquires Five and accelerates software development
Stuttgart The race for the self-driving car is the most exciting future question in the automotive industry. Only those who are ahead here will make the leap into the digitization…
Bosch, Continental, ZF: Automotive suppliers are fighting for future business
Stuttgart, Munich, Dusseldorf In the future business of automated driving, German automotive suppliers are at risk of losing important parts of the development. For decades, Bosch, Continental and ZF were…
In the election campaign, Tobias Hans relies on future technologies
Anke Rehlinger, Ford factory, Tobias Hans, ZF The economy in Saarland is suffering from low public investment and the politically prescribed structural change. (Photo: Getty, Imago) Saarbrucken Tobias Hans is…
Investigations against Bosch for deliveries to Russia
Bosch in the criticism German supplier Bosch may have supplied parts for Russian military vehicles. (Photo: dpa) Stuttgart The federal government has passed on information to customs and the public…
Investigations against Bosch for deliveries to Russia
Bosch in the criticism German supplier Bosch may have supplied parts for Russian military vehicles. (Photo: dpa) Stuttgart According to a media report, the federal government is investigating possible violations…
Boss Wolf-Henning Scheider does not extend contract
Wolf Henning Scheider The boss of the auto supplier ZF does not extend his contract. (Photo: picture alliance/dpa) Stuttgart ZF boss Wolf-Henning Scheider has rejected an offer to extend the…
Ukrainian foreign minister raises allegations against suppliers
Stuttgart The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba made serious allegations against Bosch in the ARD program “Anne Will” on German television on Sunday evening. There had been large-scale defense cooperation…
What is left of the auto supplier?
Dusseldorf Wolfgang Reitzle wants to get everything out of Continental. The head of the supervisory board of the Dax group is aiming for a higher stock market rating and more…
Kamaz: The Russia problem of Mercedes-Benz
Russian military vehicle by Kamaz The Stuttgart car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz holds 15 percent of the shares in the Russian group. (Photo: imago images/ITAR-TASS) Munich, Stuttgart, Berlin Neither mines, booby traps…
Kamaz: The Russia problem of Mercedes-Benz
Russian military vehicle by Kamaz The Stuttgart car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz holds 15 percent of the shares in the Russian group. (Photo: imago images/ITAR-TASS) Munich, Stuttgart, Berlin Neither mines, booby traps…
Deutz boss Frank Hiller has to go
Dusseldorf The dispute at the mechanical engineering company Deutz about the legally required appointment of a woman to a board position has massive personnel consequences. CEO Frank Hiller (55) has…
Coalition committee to settle dispute over combustion car
Ministers needing clarification Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP, left) in conversation with Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (B90/Greens). (Photo: Getty Images) Berlin The dispute within the government over the end…