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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - In order to support their demand for a faster end to the combustion engine, environmentalists from Greenpeace in Stuttgart have let a Mercedes star go up in smoke.
“Not under a lucky star?” Asked the activists on Wednesday in front of the Ministry of Economic Affairs on a banner.
From their point of view, the car manufacturer Daimler wants to hold on to the combustion engine for far too long.
Other manufacturers have submitted more ambitious plans, they criticized.
Economics minister Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut (CDU) accused her of delaying the farewell to combustion engines with her support for synthetic fuels.
The auto industry underestimated the pace of industry upheaval, it said in a press release.
A forward-looking economic policy must give the industry a clear direction.
Greenpeace also referred to a representative survey it had commissioned itself, according to which the majority of Baden-Württemberg residents are of the opinion that the domestic auto industry is not well equipped for the switch to electromobility by international comparison.
Almost 37 percent also want the traffic turnaround in the country to be accelerated.
Almost 30 percent, on the other hand, want to see them slowed down, a further 21 percent think the pace is okay.
The “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” had previously reported on the survey.
Daimler boss Ola Källenius emphasized last week that he did not consider it sensible to prematurely end the profitable combustion engine business.
At the same time, he made it clear that Daimler would be ready if electromobility prevailed faster than previously foreseeable.
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Hoffmeister-Kraut argued that the majority of cars in Germany today have an internal combustion engine.
"If we want to reduce CO2 emissions in traffic quickly, we cannot wait until this huge vehicle fleet has been exchanged for cars with other drive technologies," she said.
She therefore advocates a technology-open approach.
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