Clearly, the ranges increase more than before. And not just the announced ones. However, there are differences. So the SUVs, which are not much loved by environment friends, can also be used here because they simply offer a little more space for batteries. With this and the next battery generation, practical 500 km range would be possible.

And suddenly the technically advanced are at a disadvantage. Obviously, BMWs made of carbon and aluminum can be more difficult to switch to larger battery capacities than cars created by the conventional sheet metal technology.

No, the diesel engine is not dead, because it makes up half of the approvals in many countries, has a lot more importance if you look to the driven kilometers. And how should a truck running in long-distance traffic with batteries be operated?

In the long term those may be worried about their jobs, which deal with combustion engines, clutches and transmissions. Not entirely unjustified. Bizarre is that just at the other end, e.g. In the programming of software more people are needed.

However, there will be an accompanying technology for the pure electric drive, presumably based on hydrogen. Because this is, so to speak, the remover, because renewable energies often deliver more than is needed.

Unfortunate is the current merging of electric drive with autonomous driving, since the latter is slowly but surely discredited because, for example, Tesla obviously much too early has introduced it into the market. It is high time to decouple the electric drive technology from the 'blessings' of autonomous driving.

Just as little as there is an automatism between the production of diesel engines and cheating during testing. 10/16