News Digest Item
24 Feb 2017

“Time for a new export hit”

tageszeitung (taz)

Large-scale expansion of public transportation, integrated mobility concepts and charging infrastructure could offset job losses associated with a shift towards e-cars in Germany, Beate Willms writes in a commentary for taz. “Of course these jobs are different from those performed by car manufacturers today,” Willms writes. “But the transition doesn’t take place at a moment’s notice". A structural change for climate protection with corresponding employment policy “could make mobility of the future a new export hit.”

Read the commentary in German .

For more information, see the 淨 dossier The energy transition and Germany’s transport sector.

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