The German automotive industry makes mobile against a possible approval to ban internal combustion vehicles from 2030. A study to show that climate protection is no prohibition on better. In a number of important Details remain vague.
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Policy is not to switch off the internal combustion engine
The discussion about a possible ban on internal combustion engines has startled the German automotive industry. The Green party had brought such a registration ban for the year 2030 to reach the German climate protection goals. And also in France, the new government is playing with the thought to banish from 2040 the glow from the street. A little amused, the German manufacturers such as BMW, Mercedes, Porsche & Co., doing business mainly with gasoline and diesel vehicles. “The internal combustion engine to turn off politically, making a big, strategic mistake,” said the President of the German automobile Association, Matthias Wissmann, on Tuesday in Berlin, in front of journalists.
Association: 600,000 industrial jobs could be in danger
ifo President Clemens Fuest does not recommend approval prohibited for internal combustion engines
How big is this strategic error would be that the car wants to mobile VDA Association of feed now with Numbers. The Central message of the ifo-Institute in Munich in order to study: “Every second job in the German automotive industry has to do with the internal combustion engine,” said ifo President Clemens Fuest in the presentation of the results. Approximately 600,000 industrial jobs would be in Germany depend directly or indirectly on the construction of internal combustion engines – what would be equivalent to ten per cent of the industrial value added. Fuest stressed, however, that it was not clear how many Jobs the rebuild of the automotive industry will cost to alternative drive technologies: “We have not predicted that 600,000 Jobs disappear.” More electric and hybrid cars on the roads, because the experts largely agree to a massive restructuring of the industry. Pay for this development, the study, however, remains guilty.
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The automobile Association of the time, however, the possible ban clear discussions prior to the election to the Bundestag with reference to massive job losses. Support scientists Fuest, of the prohibitions for “mischief” or in the best case holds for non-efficient comes from the economy. “It is important that climate policy and technology is going to be neutral, so climate protection targets without prescribing the technologies that has to happen,“ says Fuest. The objective should be to achieve climate protection at the lowest cost. The prohibition of internal combustion engines in cars could lead, according to the study, between 2030 and 2050, a reduction of 32 percent of climate-damaging carbon dioxide emissions for Cars. A lot of, sounds is a scientist for the ifo but not enough to justify the depth of the planned market intervention.
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Such a plea against a possible approval ban VDA President Wissmann, “looks to be a highly efficient internal combustion engines” as an important Alternative to electric cars is happy. “Germany is the home of the automotive industry should not bring any type of drive against the other in position”, calls for Wissmann. The apparent economically, ecologically and socially no sense and poses a threat to the market position of German manufacturers in global competition. The internal combustion engine can be operated with synthetically produced biofuels. The company Sunpower in Dresden experimenting with these fuels today. Wissmann rejected the award of the environmental associations collected accusation, the German industry has overslept the move to electric cars.
Figures of the study to substantiate this claim. This underlines that German manufacturers are taking in the case of drive technologies a leadership position in terms of patents. Accordingly, each of the third Patent in the area of electric mobility (34 percent) and hybrid drive (32 per cent) from Germany come. VDA President Wissmann pointed to an annual investment of 40 billion euros in research and development of advanced combustion engines and alternative drives. “You can’t claim that the German industry is investing in alternative technologies,” notes the Economist Fuest. “What does not work yet, which is the implementation, so that these vehicles arrive on our streets.” This is not deck but the research.
On the VDA you will appreciate that by 2025 between 15 and 25 percent of new car registrations electric or hybrid powered. This means, however, Wissmann continued, that over 75 percent of the market would continue to be dominated by internal combustion engines. 2020, the German manufacturer will want to have around 100 models for electric and hybrid vehicles on offer. Currently, there are just 30. “We will Finance the new routes from the income that we earn today with gasoline and diesel vehicles,” the VDA President Wissmann. Instead of bans, the Association wants a “political framework”, the technology remains open and market economy. Remains open in this scenario, however, as the ambitious climate protection Germany’s aims, according to the view of the motor Association. Concrete proposals on how this can be achieved with “highly efficient combustion technologies”, provides the Association.