News Digest Item
19 Apr 2017

“The future of e-mobility will be decided in China”

WirtschaftsWoche

With the future of e-mobility being decided in China, German carmakers have to get a move on to not fall behind, writes Sebastian Schaal for WirtschaftsWoche. An “actively shaped, distorted technology race” was unfolding in China, according to Sebastian Heilmann, director of the Mercator Institute for China Studies. Germany’s business leaders and politicians would have to “steel and defend themselves” to not be pushed out of the market little by little.

Read the article in German here.

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

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