The CEO of component manufacturer Mahle has stated that it would be folly to simply switch to EV powertrains at the expense of all other technology to simply fulfil a political objective.
Speaking in a press conference in Stuttgart, Dr. Jörg Stratmann, CEO and chairman of the Board said: “At the moment, the change in powertrain technologies is driven primarily by political objectives. The current one-dimensional debate focused on a single drive is not productive. We want a dialog that has a basis in technology.”
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Stratmann held the conference to explain his firm’s ‘dual strategy’: which is to include development of technology including electrification, hydrogen fuel cell, and the use of other alternative fuels in ‘intelligently electrified combustion engines’.
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He went on to explain that the group maintains R&D investments at high level despite crisis and that expansion of global ‘competence centres’ will further strengthen this research.
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