The expectations for the car summit this Tuesday in the Chancellery can safely be reduced to a low point.
The group of participants is large and heterogeneous.
Some are clinging to the ideas of the mobility turnaround, which, however, cannot progress due to a lack of green electricity and charging infrastructure for e-cars or a lack of rail capacities.
Automakers would like to talk about concerns in their industry.
She fears that Germany could lose its previous competitive advantages as the country of origin of cutting-edge technology and as a producer of particularly expensive and high-quality cars.
Opportunities are being redistributed due to expensive energy in Europe and the switch to electric drives.
Only innovative German car manufacturers who make rapid progress with innovations will be able to help shape mobility policy around the world in the future.
But the government must quickly create all the conditions that the Greens like to talk about.
The loss of the supremacy of German car manufacturers would be a beacon for Germany's entire economy.