“Daimler should make e-car components to protect jobs: labour boss”
Reuters
The head of carmaker Daimler AG's works council, Michael Brecht, says the move from conventional cars to e-cars could threaten jobs in the coming years, Reuters reports. "The number of staff you need to build a combustion engine is roughly tenfold compared to the number of staff for an electric engine," said the Chairman of Daimler's General Works Council. To counter the reduction in labour, Brecht says Daimler should produce more EV parts itself, noting that at the moment, the carmaker Daimler hardly manufactures any e-mobility components itself. Most manufacturing is done by subsidiaries and partners, writes Reuters.
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