The Powertrain Race Was Never a Technology Contest: Why the Battery Already Won as a Business Model
There is a debate raging across Germany and much of Europe about how cars should be powered in the future. Battery-electric. Hydrogen. eFuels. HVO100. The framing is almost always the same: which technology is best? Which one is cleanest, most convenient, most German? The word you hear most often is Technologieoffenheit – technology-openness, the noble-sounding demand that we keep all…