Photo: Mercedes-Benz Germany’s automakers manufactured around 1.27 million BEVs and PHEVs in 2023, putting it at No. 2 behind China, but 2024 will be bumpy. The German automotive industry association VDA says that 995,000 purely electric vehicles rolled off German … Read more
In February, over 30 German companies began trialing the four-day workweek for six months with over 1,000 employees taking part. The initiative has been led by the NGO 4 Day Week Global and the HR consultancy firm Intraprenör in partnership … Read more
News → Car Tech → Electric Vehicles The country will need to increase its charging footprint by more than ten-fold if it hopes to reach its end-of-decade target. byLewin Day| PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2023 1:00 PM EDT Getty Images EVs … Read more
The first half of 2023 saw a normalization of energy prices, with natural gas prices and electricity exchange prices returning to pre-Ukraine war levels but still above 2021 prices. The impact of the nuclear phase-out, with the shutdown of the … Read more
Beim Drug-Checking können Süchtige und Gelegenheitskonsumenten chemische Drogen wie Kokain, Heroin, Ecstasy oder Speed in bestimmten Sprechstunden vorbeibringen. In einem Labor werden diese dann auf ihre Bestandteile untersucht. Getestet werden auch sogenannte neue psychoaktive Substanzen, in der Szene auch »Badesalze« … Read more
Germany against EU client-side scanning While the UK is trying to undermine encryption with the Online Safety Bill, in Germany, the reservations against breaking up encryption to allow client-side scanning are very high. This has been proven once again during … Read more
Germany against client-side scanning While the UK is trying to undermine encryption with the Online Safety Bill, in Germany, the reservations against breaking up encryption to allow client-side scanning are very high. This has been proven once again during the … Read more
Germany has proclaimed a partial Microsoft 365 ban in 2018 and has been holding it since. Source: Maheshkumar Painam via Unsplash.com The central German state of Hesse’s local Data Protection Authority (DPA) has banned the use of Microsoft 365 in … Read more
Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday ordered Germany’s three remaining nuclear plants to remain in operation until April to fend off a possible energy crunch. The chancellor has asked the Economy, Environment and Finance Ministries to create the legal basis for the plants to remain open. … Read more
Intel’s plan is to start building the fab next year and have it on-stream in 2027. Whether or not additional funds are available from the EU is not known. The European Chips Act is budgeted at $48 billion but where … Read more