What will the year 2017 bring for cars?
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The transition to electric and autonomous cars will take much longer than enthusiasts anticipate, writes Holger Appel in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Not a single e-car suitable for the mass-market is available, and the highly anticipated models of 2017 will not change that. “The breakthrough won’t come in 2017, and it won’t come in 2018 either,” writes Appel. Truly autonomous cars also remain a long way off, and will only materialise if cloud-based algorithms will save every movement in back ends vulnerable to hacking. “This raises the question of the year: Do we want that?”
Find more background in the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.
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