Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer is once again questioning the 2035 phase-out of combustion engines. At the car summit in the Chancellery, there was no one "who is of the opinion that 2035, as it is now set, can be maintained", the CDU politician told MDR aktuell. "It is not achievable to go fully electric in 2025. And that's why the outcome of yesterday evening is quite clear: we need to make adjustments here. We need flexibility."
He also criticized the tariffs paid in the car factories. IG Metall immediately rejected this. Politicians should concentrate on their own tasks, explained district manager Jan Otto. "The crisis in the German car industry has nothing to do with collective agreements."
Kretschmer said that it was politics, not industry, that had set the path to electromobility. "These exaggerated targets are damaging, they are causing huge uncertainty, and in the supplier industry in south-west Saxony in particular, the concerns are very, very great. And that's why I'm glad that a little more common sense, a little more realism was achieved yesterday."
