How BYD & Co. stir up German car manufacturers

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2023-09-01 12:54:00

Electric cars from China

German car manufacturers are faced with competition from China.

(Photo: Mona Eing & Michael Meissner) Chinese car manufacturers like BYD will be more present than ever before at the International Motor Show in Munich next week. These are the six most exciting newcomers. To ignore? Cooperate? Imitate? The German manufacturers are feverishly looking for a way to deal with the new competition. Especially in China itself, Volkswagen and Co. have already lost a lot of ground. In a long interview, BMW CEO Oliver Zipse talks about the new competitors from China, the future of the combustion engine and his attitude to the four-day week.

Rottach-Egern, end of August: When the weather is good, the number of Porsches in the town of 5,800 on Lake Tegernsee is similar to that on Sylt or in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel. But today is not good weather. At twelve degrees and rain, several electric sedans from the Chinese brand BYD do a test lap around Germany’s supposedly cleanest lake – albeit in a decimated fleet.

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