In the future, Cosco Shipping in Hamburg will have its smaller container ship secure the cargo with its own seafarers. So far, this has been the task of lashers – special port workers paid according to the tariff. The United Services Union (ver.di) accuses the shipping company of wage violations. As specific as the accusation […]
A radical and company-wide restart in technology is expected to address Volkswagen’s problems in China and worldwide: an entirely new electric platform. “This is a huge step for us because, for the first time, we can build purely electric vehicles from the B to the upper C and D segments on it,” says a spokesperson […]
Xiaomi is the next billion-dollar manufacturer to enter China’s car market. The tech giant has big plans and is willing to invest a lot of money.Xiaomi will launch its first EV, the SU7, in spring 2024. The vehicle’s key data and design show that (at least in China) car manufacturing is no longer an exclusive […]
People in China have been riding their bikes more since the Covid pandemic. Around 30 percent of all urban travel now happens by bicycle, after this figure had sunk to 16 percent by 2012. This is a renaissance of an eco-friendly mode of transport that once dominated Chinese traffic. In the mid-1980s, the share was […]
The Battery Regulation is a highly ambitious project of the European Union. It is about structuring a product’s entire life cycle and value chain more sustainably. The aim is to create a circular economy that makes Europe less dependent on third countries. Due to the transport and energy transition, batteries are considered one of the […]
The Battery Regulation is a highly ambitious project of the European Union. It is about structuring a product’s entire life cycle and value chain more sustainably. The aim is to create a circular economy that makes Europe less dependent on third countries. Due to the transport and energy transition, batteries are considered one of the […]
Automotive suppliers appear to be in good spirits, at least from a global perspective. According to the Berylls Group consultancy, the industry generated over a trillion euros in revenue last year. This marked a 16 percent increase compared to 2019, a pre-pandemic year.Rising prices met with an expanding automobile production, primarily driven by China. “The […]
Whether it is the minority stake of the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) in the Port of Hamburg and Logistics (HHLA) or the investments of Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) in the German state of Thuringia – politics, the public and competitors are usually very critical of Chinese investors. From a geopolitical or macroeconomic perspective, there […]
Wan Gang’s word carries weight in the car industry. In the 1990s, he worked at Audi in research and development. In China, he first founded the Institute for Hydrogen Technology at Tongji University and later became president of the university. The high point of his career to date was his work as Minister of Science […]
It may be one of the more pleasant appointments on the calendar for Chancellor Olaf Scholz: The opening of the International Motor Show (IAA) in Munich – also called IAA Mobility 2023. It is his first IAA. When Angela Merkel opened her first IAA in 2007, a million people flocked to the exhibition in Frankfurt. […]