“I’m very worried about Germany as an industrial location,” Brecht told the German Press Agency in Stuttgart. Industrial policy in Germany and Europe is not remotely comparable to China or the USA. “It simply won’t work at this speed,” said Brecht, referring to the transformation to e-mobility. “I see black that the appropriate infrastructure will be followed accordingly.”
Everyone talked about the need for a master plan, but to this day only individual initiatives are discussed instead of designing a large overall strategy. “We are far too small-minded here,” said Brecht. In the next two to three years, practically all major decisions regarding zero-emission drives will have to be made. Otherwise, Germany and Europe could “perhaps even be weaker industrially in ten years than before the transformation”.
If he looks at Germany’s climate targets for 2030, then a plan is already necessary today, how many charging points are needed where and what these charging points have to do. “To this day I can’t imagine how that can work.” The Ministry of Transport must make this extrapolation and say how exactly the roads in Germany are electrified.
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