“E-cars arrive, jobs leave”
Die Welt
A shift to electric mobility from the combustion engine could significantly reduce the number of jobs in Germany’s car-making industry because the production of e-cars and batteries requires less workers and a different skill-set, writes Guido Bellberg in Die Welt. Some new jobs will be created but this will be of little help to those who currently work on cars as most of them cannot be re-trained as computer specialists. In addition, many of the new factories and jobs for e-cars and their parts will be built elsewhere.
Read the article in German here.
Find background on the e-car issues in the dossiers Energiewende and German carmakers and the energy transition and the transport sector.
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