German carmakers lag behind on passenger e-cars, but are cutting edge on heavy e-vehicles
German carmakers might have been late to embark on the electrification of passenger cars, but, according to a recent study by patent law office Gr眉necker, 鈥渁re very well positioned when it comes to e-transporters and e-trucks,鈥� Thomas Fromm writes for the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. The study鈥檚 author, Jens Koch, said he was 鈥渟urprised鈥� how intensively German carmakers are working on the electric future of heavy duty vehicles. 鈥淎bout one third of all patents for electric utility vehicles in the past ten years come from German producers,鈥� while many big producers from China did not register any relevant patents at all, Koch said. However, carmakers from the US and Japan currently are 鈥渕uch more dynamic鈥� than their German competitors, Fromm writes.
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