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In various places, the plans for switching to electric mobility have become uncertain: In Germany, the Christian Democrats will head into the European election campaign with the demand to revise the EU’s ban on combustion engine cars. It is unclear whether and how Ursula von der Leyen, lead candidate of the Christian Democratic party family EPP, will adopt this demand as her own. Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden wants to give his country’s industry more time for the transition. Laurin Meyer from New York reports on the background to this.