“The auto industry and the diesel affair; when technology inspires too much”
Handelsblatt
The pivotal mistake by the auto industry was not diesel technology itself, but holding on to it for too long, writes Grischa Brower-Rabinowitsch in an opinion piece in Handelsblatt. German carmakers had not focused on new propulsion technologies early enough and “worked themselves into a dependence on the diesel over the past decades, which has now become a threat to the whole sector,” writes Brower-Rabinowitsch.
Read the opinion piece (behind paywall) in German here.
For background on German manufacturers' struggle to shift to decarbonised mobility, see the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.
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