Enterprise 2000 Symposium, June 23-24, 1994 – IBM International Éducation Centre, La Hulpe, Brussels (Belgium) a page of my Logbook

 

_{Enterprise 2000 Symposium, June 23-24, 1994 – IBM International Éducation Centre, LaHulpe, Brussels (Belgium)}

_{Chancellor Helmut Kohl, was a great promoter of Hi-Tec companies, providing means of financing, education, marketing German products and companies world-wide.} 

 

We did get plenty of support and promotion, and as a top German Startup in IT (Real Time systems) 1991 for military, industrial, aerospace, he sent us to China. Introduced us to Chinese Space, Telecom, and manufacturers, to build strong backed relationships to increase business for both sides during the 3 weeks long Business Exploration. This was in 1991, and this is reported in another page of my Logbook inside this very Blogger. Continuation of Government (both Federal and Bavarian) support was receiving an invitation to attend the Symposium s below:

_{“Strategic Analysis of European and Global Management and Technology for Future Business Leadership” by Helmut Schmidt, Former Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany}

 _{Symposium consisted of two full days and lectures by th Chancellleur Helmut Schmidt, spaced by question periods and lunches at the IBM HQ. Intensive schedule added to a top content and presentation by Helmut Schmidt and IBM VP Benelux. On the evening of June 23 a gala dinner was called and I was lucky to be invited to the table with Helmut Schmidt. A colegue of mine took a picture with me, my colleague Norber Hauser, the Chancellor and IBM VP Benelux. The picture is signed by H. Schmidt.}

Helmut Schmidt became FRD first Defence Minister at the time of East German uprising in 1953. Later he was a very succesfull Finance minister, during the so called German Economic Miracle years (see Ludwig Erhard).

_{With his great expertise, competence in politics, finances, he created the first InterCouncil with 7 western leaders, which later morphed into a prototype G7 according to him. As an organizer of the Helsinki Accords in 1974 his take on taking in new members from the former Central-Eastern countries while EU placed stringent enrtry cryteria much more rigid and the earlier group 7 years before. When I questioned him "why the entrance hurdles are much higher for ie Hungary that a few years before ie Spain" which was much less industrialized. His response haas us all astonished:"because in 1987 we had our cofferss full of money, and now they are empty, and we could not afford now to pay for upgrade the economy.". Please not that in the bunch accepted was Greece. A wonderfull coutry, but country located 1 hour (GMT minus 2) behind Budapest. Geographically speaking.} 

 

 

BASF has joined development of batteries for e-cars

Is electro-mobility a term designed to descrobe mobility via electric driven vehcles, Iris Strom is writing in German.

Einige haben sich die Zeit genommen und mir per Email Ihre Meinung zum Thema E-Mobilität zukommen lassen. Zunächst also erst einmal ein herzliches Dankeschön an alle! Natürlich wollte nicht jeder, dass ich seine Meinung auf unserer Website veröffentliche, einem Wunsch, dem ich selbstverständlich nachkomme. Doch ich lege jedem nahe, sich die Zeit zu nehmen und die zur Veröffentlichung freigegebenen Meinungen (Kommentare zum Thema Elektromobilität) zu lesen. Denn mit teils sehr deutlichen Worten fordern die Leserbriefschreiber, der deutschen/europäischen Automobilindustrie keine Fördergelder in den Rachen zu schieben.
Ich möchte aber darauf hinweisen, dass auch die gegenteilige Meinung zu hören war, nämlich, dass es ohne massive Subventionen nicht machbar wäre, Elektroautos in Masse zu produzieren!
Allerdings möchte ich betonen, dass sich die Mehrheit ganz klar gegen eine Subventionierung der OEMs ausspricht - schade eigentlich, dass die Politiker sich selten wirklich für die Meinung ihrer Wähler interessieren.


Iris Stroh

1 million electric cars before 2020 is not going to happen

This said Ferdinand Dudenhöffer of the University Duisburg-Essen. German government has prepared subsidy package worth €500 millions to make things happen. Instead 10 times is needed to catch up with development in foreign countries, particularly in China. He projected that only 6,200.000 cars are going to be rolling in 2010 worldwide. All battery or hybrid driven vehicles, It is mistaken assumption that by the year 2025 the barrel of oil would cost $350, and electric car would cost less than $40,000 in 2011. In fact a battery driven Nissan Leaf already cost around $33,000 in 2009. He points out that still in 2009, there were only 1588 electric cars running in Germany. The very ambitious plan for 600,000 Plug-in Hybrid is "grossly overambitious". He points out that:
R&D efforts are to be strongly increased especially as comparing to that of States and China
Germany needs a beaker/watch tower type of projects that give direction to industrial ventures, not small mostly "pedestrian" research piece meal efforts.
Urban centers must prepare themselves for making traffic organization more friendly to the electro car. e-cars should allowed to use bus lines in rush hour.

Making car batteries more efficient, and regenerating, manufacturing such batteries would bring additional employment of 100,000 new jobs.
Companies like Bosch, Evonik, SB-LiMotive or Merck invest heavily in such technologies. However Dudenhöffer is not advising to buy e-car any time soon. He warns for so called "write-off premium" on such cars, and this is another down side of the e-car, its depreciation is much more rapid than a classic vehicle.