News Digest Item
15 May 2017

“Kretschmann: Auto industry must act”

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Green politician and state premier of Baden-Wuerttemberg Winfried Kretschmann called on car manufacturers to speed up the transition to e-cars, as Chinese competition required greater efforts, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “We want to be a driver in this process,” Kretschmann said in an interview with the newspaper.

Read the article in German here.

For background read the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.

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