Deutsche Post\/DHL ha anunciado que cesar\u00e1 la fabricaci\u00f3n de sus furgonetas el\u00e9ctricas StreetScooter antes de finales de este a\u00f1o. El director general del grupo, Frank Appel, ha renunciado a encontrar un comprador para su filial, a pesar de que parec\u00eda que un acuerdo con la china Chery estaba m\u00e1s que hecho. <\/p>\n
+ + Por favor, vea nuestra actualizaci\u00f3n a continuaci\u00f3n ++<\/p>\n
Un portavoz del servicio postal declar\u00f3 a la agencia de prensa alemana dpa<\/em>: \"No habr\u00e1 m\u00e1s pedidos nuevos. Los veh\u00edculos pedidos se siguen fabricando y se espera que las entregas contin\u00faen hasta el a\u00f1o que viene.\" Deutsche Post\/ DHL tambi\u00e9n anunci\u00f3 que ya no quer\u00eda continuar con las conversaciones exploratorias para encontrar un comprador. El consejero delegado Appel se limit\u00f3 a afirmar que \"seguir creciendo sin el socio adecuado no se corresponde con nuestro objetivo estrat\u00e9gico a largo plazo\". A\u00f1adi\u00f3 que \"siempre hemos dicho que no queremos ser un fabricante de autom\u00f3viles\".<\/p>\n En el futuro, StreetScooter quiere concentrarse \u00fanicamente en la explotaci\u00f3n de la flota actual, que consta de 11.000 furgonetas el\u00e9ctricas y que va a ampliarse hasta 15.000. Lo que esto significa para los empleados de las plantas de fabricaci\u00f3n de StreetScooter en Aquisgr\u00e1n y D\u00fcren a\u00fan no est\u00e1 claro por el momento.<\/p>\n Adem\u00e1s de las dos plantas propias en Aquisgr\u00e1n y D\u00fcren, Alemania, y StreetScooter tambi\u00e9n cuenta con una planta de producci\u00f3n para el Ford Transit con base Work XL en Ford Colonia<\/a>. Un portavoz de Deutsche Post dijo a electrive<\/em> que se mantendr\u00e1n conversaciones con Ford al respecto, pero \"la continuaci\u00f3n de la producci\u00f3n del Work XL\" \"no est\u00e1 prevista en las circunstancias actuales\".<\/p>\n Esto tambi\u00e9n pone salida del director general J\u00f6rg Sommer<\/a> bajo una luz diferente. Sommer, que se incorpor\u00f3 a la empresa en 2019, ten\u00eda la tarea de encontrar un comprador y ampliar el potencial internacional de la empresa, todo lo cual parec\u00eda haber ido bien. A principios de febrero, sin embargo, Deutsche Post anunci\u00f3 que Sommer hab\u00eda abandonado StreetScooter debido a \"opiniones divergentes sobre la futura direcci\u00f3n de la empresa\".<\/p>\n Aunque Appel describi\u00f3 la filial como una \"historia de \u00e9xito\" el pasado mes de octubre, ahora afirma que, en vista de las \"actuales incertidumbres econ\u00f3micas mundiales\", Deutsche Post ha decidido \"no perseguir activamente la resonancia de las ventas\". Seg\u00fan sus propias declaraciones, la crisis del coronavirus ha golpeado duramente al servicio postal alem\u00e1n, especialmente en lo que se refiere a la log\u00edstica y los servicios de entrega desde y hacia China. En el mes de febrero, esto le ha costado a la empresa alrededor de 60 a 70 millones de euros. Esto parece haber sido la gota que colm\u00f3 el vaso para el director general, ya que Appel era famoso por su impaciencia ante la venta de StreetScooter. Tambi\u00e9n en octubre del a\u00f1o pasado, reiter\u00f3 que la filial deb\u00eda venderse a finales del a\u00f1o pasado. Hasta el anuncio de hoy, la venta de la empresa parec\u00eda seguir sobre la mesa.<\/p>\n Hace menos de seis meses,<\/a> StreetScooter y el fabricante chino de veh\u00edculos el\u00e9ctricos Chery firmaron una carta de intenciones para una empresa conjunta durante el viaje de la canciller alemana Angela Merkel a China. Por aquel entonces, en septiembre, Chery y StreetScooter anunciaron que quer\u00edan crear una empresa conjunta en China. El objetivo de la cooperaci\u00f3n era desarrollar conjuntamente un veh\u00edculo comercial el\u00e9ctrico especialmente para el mercado chino y otros pa\u00edses seleccionados. La carta de intenciones allan\u00f3 el camino para la entrada gradual en el mercado chino de veh\u00edculos comerciales el\u00e9ctricos. La producci\u00f3n en serie en China con capacidades de producci\u00f3n de hasta 100.000 veh\u00edculos el\u00e9ctricos al a\u00f1o estaba prevista para 2021.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deutsche Post\/DHL ha anunciado que dejar\u00e1 de fabricar sus furgonetas el\u00e9ctricas StreetScooter antes de finales de este a\u00f1o. El director general del grupo, Frank Appel, ha<\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":109501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13094],"tags":[3701,967,127,9961,17057,494,14397,14396,16024],"class_list":["post-128924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-utility-vehicles","tag-bev","tag-deutsche-post","tag-dhl","tag-germany","tag-jorg-sommer","tag-streetscooter","tag-work","tag-work-l","tag-work-xl"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":" Despite StreetScooter apparently being so close to being sold to the Chinese joint venture partner Chery in January, this is not going forward. “With the decision announced today, we will also not continue the planned cooperation with the Chinese partners,” said a Deutsche Post spokesperson at the request of electrive<\/em> adding: “Whether Chery will build electric vehicles in China is beyond our knowledge.”<\/p>\n The two factories with a supplier structure and the established customer base with major customers such as Deutsche Post and recently Amazon<\/a> would probably have been the more interesting points of the deal for Chery. Chery itself has sufficient experience in building e-vehicles, as the manufacturer has a relatively high e-quota among the established Chinese OEMs. It remains to be seen just what was unattractive about the deal for Chery and if this existing German infrastructure will be utilised by any other manufacturer in any way.<\/p>\n In November<\/a> Deutsche Post\/DHL announced that StreetScooter would launch the StreetScooter Work L electric delivery van in two US cities from spring this year. According to CTO Ulrich Stuhec, StreetScooter\u2019s EVs could be established on a large scale in the USA in 2022 or 2023. The market entry into the USA, which was planned for spring 2020<\/a>, is therefore now officially quashed.<\/p>\n Deutsche Post is now currently covered for its own fleets, with Appel reiterating that “we are committed to our 2050 mission, which is zero-emission logistics by 2050.” And as StreetScooter will not be wound up, but be the operator of the existing fleet, the move is expected to result in “one-off adjustment expenses of between 300 million euros and 400 million euros”.<\/p>\n Deutsche Post was a state-owned corporation until the reunification of Germany in 1989 where it began a process of privatisation. StreetScooter started up in 2010 to respond to the demand for electric delivery vans, specifically from Deutsche Post who was decarbonising its fleets. At the time, no vehicle manufacturer in Germany was serially producing a battery-electric delivery van, literally forcing Deutsche Post to make their own. In December 2014, Deutsche Post bought the company, which thus became a wholly-owned subsidiary.<\/p>\n The fact that things are not going too well between the Post headquarters in Bonn and the StreetScooter management had already become apparent in autumn. Shortly before the premiere of the second generation of the Work L, Post boss Frank Appel publicly set a deadline by saying in an interview that he was aiming the sale of the subsidiary by the end of 2019. “Our investors want a logistics company, not a car company,” Appel said. He accentuated the fact that StreetScooter would incur a loss in 2019 with a “significant double-digit million euro amount”.<\/p>\n Plans for what will happen to the StreetScooter plants and expertise developed so far was not even mentioned in the Deutsche Post announcement. In October last year<\/a>, The Federal Ministry of Transport opened an initiative for supporting hydrogen mobility with a further 23.5 million euros as part of the National Innovation Programme Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NIP). The largest amount of almost ten million euros went to the Post subsidiary StreetScooter for 500 fuel cell vehicles. What will become of these vehicles and the existing developments and facilities is also not clear.<\/p>\n As yet, there have also been no statements from the German government concerning the ramifications for German industry, struggling to find a leading position in electric vehicle markets in the face of an inexorably declining car industry. It remains to be seen what will be made of the hole in German manufacturing capability and how German transport industry aims to develop and support its growing markets in a rapidly changing vehicle industry.<\/p>\n Update Thursday 5 March 2020:<\/b> One of the original founders of StreetScooter, professor G\u00fcnther Schuh is considering buying back the electric delivery van company from Deutsche Post. “Under the right conditions, I could imagine taking over StreetScooter again,” Schuh told WirtschaftsWoche<\/em>. Schuh told the newspaper he had contacted the post office and asked if he could do anything “to limit the damage”. “We are talking now,” said Schuh.<\/p>\n When asked what the end of the StreetScooter means for Germany as a technology and start-up location, Schuh answered: “It frustrates all pioneers who want to try something impossible. If we only ever let projects go through that are on a par with savings-bank loans for multi-family house financing, we will not make any progress. ”<\/p>\n Schuh, a renown innovator in the German transport industry, is also CEO of electric vehicle startup e.Go Mobile. It seems that innovative German startups in vehicle manufacturing have very specific hurdles. On one hand, startups langer in the shade of the significant number of carmaking giants who \u2013 until now \u2013 have been printing money since the global suburban spread of the 50s. On the other hand, German innovation in mobility is held back by a financial culture in Germany that is characterised by safe and small bets. Schuh recently criticised German financing culture<\/a> with regard to e.Go Mobile. This was echoed by sentiments from the German car startup Sono Motors<\/a> who were forced to further their innovation to include an unprecedented financing strategy \u2013 Sono Motors recently used crowdfunding to raise the 50 million euros required to start production of their solar-powered car.<\/p>\n handelsblatt.com<\/a> (production stop, in German) dpdhl.com<\/a> (profit loss due to Coronavirus), wiwo.de<\/a> (update, in German)<\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}China ya no es una opci\u00f3n, razones desconocidas<\/h3>\n
USA markets will not get to see StreetScooters as planned<\/h3>\n
Ramifications for German industry and government?<\/b><\/h3>\n