Global automotive market 2018 High investment costs for electric cars and weak demand for new cars put pressure on industry

摘要

The outlook for the global car markets in the coming years is rather bad. On the one hand,production plants will have to be converted to electro mobility using large investments,and on the other hand,the demand for new cars is falling. Major austerity programmes to switch to electric cars have been worked out. Porsche,for example,wants to save EUR 6 billion over the next eight years by rationalising its operating processes,while spending more on the development and production of electric cars. The regulatory burden is enormous. In China,there will be an electric car quota of 10 % for new cars in 2019. In the EU,rising CO2 emissions from gasoline engines following the decline in diesel-powered vehicles will have to meet the new CO2-EU targets from 2021,according to which only 95 g of CO2/km per new car are permitted.