Companies that make parts for internal combustion engines are facing a harsh future.
Revenues for internal combustion engines, as well as fuel and exhaust systems, are expected to decline 44% through 2027, according to the 2023 Deloitte Automotive Supplier Study. Meanwhile, revenues for electric drivetrains and batteries or fuel cells are expected to rise 245%, the study found.
Automakers are also finding new ways to more efficiently manufacture parts through methods like giga casting. Attributed to Tesla, the technique involves using large machines to cast very large chunks of a vehicle all at once, instead of assembling one out of smaller parts.
While automakers bring more of their supply chain in-house, there are thousands of parts in cars that come from companies all over the world — a branching supply chain of firms each dependent on the success of the others.
Many of those companies are small, family owned firms that have been around for decades. But even the large, publicly traded suppliers such as Bosch, Denso, Magna and ZF are affected.
Bigger firms are either spinning out their internal combustion divisions or just winding them down to pivot toward EVs. But smaller suppliers often don't have the capital to make those kinds of pivots, which means leaning into what they do best and getting creative.
(CBS DETROIT) - Early Monday morning, the Michigan Supreme Court upheld a previous lower court ruling, saying those who were injured in car crashes and began receiving care before the 2019 no-fault auto insurance change need to have their care maintained.
It's a significant win for about 18,000 Michiganders.
"Today, all of the people injured before this law was implemented are protected," said Maureen Howell, who cares for her son Sam. "They're going to be okay. We've lost, I think, 15 now that we know of directly as a result of this change in the law. And that's heartbreaking."
FILE - Health aide Angela Martin helps former Detroit Red Wings star Vladimir Konstantinov into his wheelchair on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in West Bloomfield, Mich. Konstantinov suffered a severe brain stem injury from an accident in a limousine with an impaired driver after a Stanley Cup celebration nearly 25 years ago. He was in danger of losing his 24/7 care he has had for two-plus decades, but major changes in Michigan car insurance law do not apply to people who were severely injured before summer 2019, the state appeals court said Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. It is a victory for long-term victims of motor vehicle crashes and their care providers.Carlos Osorio / AP
The change in Auto No-Fault applied retroactively to Michiganders who already relied on the care like Howell. Providers were capped at 55% of what they charged previously, which created a significant financial strain.
"From what I understand, 30 programs like ours closed," said Kris Curtis, owner, and director of CBI Rehabilitation Services in East Lansing. "Other health care providers stopped providing services to auto no-fault clientele, and they closed their doors. So, from the statistics I've heard, there were over 6,000 workers in this area that lost their jobs."
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled 5-2 on Monday that insurance providers are still bound to honor their policies that existed under the law when their clients were injured.
"The 2019 no-fault amendments do not clearly convey an intent to retroactively modify these vested contractual rights," Justice Elizabeth Welch wrote in the majority opinion.
"I think for the vast majority of people injured before 2019, it's going to be their life will get better, which is great. I'm very happy about that," said Dr. Michael Andary, who works with patients after their crashes and whose wife, Ellen, was badly injured in a collision with a drunk driver in 2014.
Andary and Philip Krueger were the plaintiffs in the lawsuit before the Michigan Supreme Court. Andary tells CBS News Detroit he expects care to improve for these patients.
"The problem is, is after the people who were injured after 2019, what's going to happen with them? And the legislature and all, in my view, is absolutely dropping the ball," he said.
Advocates say they breathed a sigh of relief on Monday, but their work isn't done yet.
"This does not fix everything," said Nichole Shotwell, the president, and CEO of the Brain Injury Association of Michigan. "But it fixes a lot for those who've been injured in a car crash prior to 2019. But what it doesn't do is. Provide a fix for folks who are injured after 2019 or who will be injured in the future."
Advocates tell CBS News Detroit that there are bills in the legislature that would address the issues surrounding patients hurt after 2019 that they are hopeful will pass into law.
Android Auto is great when it works, but the platform tends to be unstable at times. Seemingly due to a recent update or some other phenomenon, some Google Pixel owners are seeing connection issues with Android Auto as of late.
Over the past few days, there have been reports from Google Pixel owners who are seeing connection issues with Android Auto. The issues have popped up over the past week or so and either prevent Android Auto from connecting (especially when wireless) or make that connection inconsistent.
Affected users acrossmultipleReddit threads and Google’s supportforums say that Android Auto has just suddenly stopped working recently, primarily on Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 devices.
This doesn’t appear to be attached to any specific Android Auto update but may be related to something server-side. The problem persists through reboots and clearing app data for some, while a reboot or restarting the car’s system fixes the problem for others.
We can’t say for certain that this is a widespread issue – my own Pixel Fold has been running Android Auto with no issues wirelessly this whole time – but there are too many instances of this happening lately for it to be a coincidence.
Are you having connection issues with Android Auto on a Pixel device lately? Let us know what’s going on in the comments below.
Companies that make parts for internal combustion engines are facing a harsh future.
Revenues for internal combustion engines, as well as fuel and exhaust systems, are expected to decline 44% through 2027, according to the 2023 Deloitte Automotive Supplier Study. Meanwhile, revenues for electric drivetrains and batteries or fuel cells are expected to rise 245%, the study found.
Automakers are also finding new ways to more efficiently manufacture parts through methods like giga casting. Attributed to Tesla, the technique involves using large machines to cast very large chunks of a vehicle all at once, instead of assembling one out of smaller parts.
While automakers bring more of their supply chain in-house, there are thousands of parts in cars that come from companies all over the world — a branching supply chain of firms each dependent on the success of the others.
Many of those companies are small, family owned firms that have been around for decades. But even the large, publicly traded suppliers such as Bosch, Denso, Magna and ZF are affected.
Bigger firms are either spinning out their internal combustion divisions or just winding them down to pivot toward EVs. But smaller suppliers often don't have the capital to make those kinds of pivots, which means leaning into what they do best and getting creative.
Android Auto is a great way to get the most out of your car's infotainment system. But if we're honest, it can still be a bit of a hassle to plug your phone in each time you climb into your car.
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PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A 24-year-old Portland man was arrested Saturday after the Auto Theft Task Force linked him to “multiple car thefts,” according to the Multnomah Co. District Attorney’s Office.
Jesse Dane Brower was arrested after the task force served a search warrant on his northeast Portland home on Saturday afternoon.
The searched followed an investigation that involved the DA’s office, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office and the Portland Police Bureau.
“That investigation uncovered multiple facts implicating Brower as a serial car thief,” the DA’s office said.
The task force said they found evidence at Brower’s home connecting him to dozens of stolen cars, as well as many stolen car parts.
Brower was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center. His charges include unauthorized use of a vehicle, possession of a stolen vehicle, felony elude, misdemeanor elude, reckless driving and possession of burglary tools. The DA’s office said the investigation is ongoing and they may be announcing further charges at a later date.
Denmark is not the friendliest nation to the car enthusiast. The highway that leads you away from Billund Airport toward the small city of Vejle runs through vast fields of piercingly bright, sharp-yellow rapeseed flowers broken only by occasional wooden farm buildings painted in the distinctive, flat red so redolent of southern Scandinavia. The road is pan-flat, arrow-straight, perfectly surfaced, and largely empty, but if you’re tempted to indulge in a harmless burst of acceleration, remember that Denmark’s relatively low speed limits are ruthlessly enforced. If you’re caught doing twice the maximum, or over 125 mph, or if your driving is considered reckless, your car can be confiscated and sold, the loss made all the more galling by the fact that, if you’re a Danish resident, you’ll already have paid the eye-watering 150 percent luxury-vehicle-registration duty that turns even an entry-level Porsche 911 into a $300,000 transaction. If the state auctions your car, you don’t even get a refund on that tax.
Flashy rides and other conspicuous displays of wealth are not a Scandi thing, Swedish hypercar-maker Koenigsegg being a rare outlier. The region’s auto industry, confined to Sweden, has long focused on quality and longevity rather than image, and Scandinavians were the among the earliest and most enthusiastic adopters of electric vehicles. So it’s odd to be traveling here to visit an enterprise that unites, under one expansive roof, businesses and workshops offering almost everything the high-end-car collector needs—sales, storage, maintenance, repairs, and race-car preparation—along with the stuff they’re likely to want, including a Realtor, a fine-wine merchant, and a diamond broker.
Petrolheads in any other country would kill for a facility like My Garage. But why, you wonder as you drive through Jutland’s flat, rural expanse, amid a local car fleet made humble by that heavy tax, was it established here? And can the area support a concern that seems better suited to the fabled car culture of, say, Los Angeles?
Ferraris for sale at the Formula showroom Tom Parker
In truth, My Garage is clearly flourishing, and is set to expand both here and to new locales friendlier to the fast car than Denmark. It owes its existence—and address—to the fact that this area is also home to the world’s largest tire manufacturer, though not in the way you might think. In 1891, Ole Kirk Christiansen was born into poverty near Billund, where the airport now stands. He became a carpenter and began to make wooden construction toys, naming his company after a portmanteau of two Danish words meaning “play well”: Lego. His son Godtfred developed the plastic bricks we know today. They proved popular, and in 2015 Lego overtook Mattel as the world’s largest toymaker and was named by global consultancy Brand Finance the world’s strongest brand, besting Ferrari. The business has annual sales of nearly $10 billion and earnings over $2 billion, and is still privately owned by some of Ole’s heirs, many of whom live on estates close to where he was born. Lego’s tire-making record is a by-product of its colossal scale as a toymaker, Guinness World Records not distinguishing between miniature and full-size tires. About half of Lego’s kits include tires, and the company produces well over 300 million tiny wheels each year.
Tall, patrician, and permanently attended by Pippi, his Old Danish Pointer, Anders Kirk Johansen is one of Godtfred’s grandsons and the founder of My Garage. Many people inherit some Lego from their parents or older siblings; Kirk Johansen, along with Godtfred’s other descendants, inherited Lego when his grandfather died in 1995. (His side of the family sold its stake in 2007.) He also inherited his love of cars from Godtfred, who amassed an impressive collection but, with typical Danish modesty, piloted a humble Mini for 20 years as his daily driver.
Anders Kirk Johansen with his 1967 Lincoln Continental convertible and his Old Danish Pointer, Pippi, outside the main house at his estate, Rohden Gods Tom Parker
“He built the airport you just flew into,” Kirk Johansen tells me. “When the company needed a bigger plane, we started storing his cars in the hangar we kept the old one in. But it was about half an hour’s drive from where we lived, and when we got there, sometimes the cars wouldn’t start, or we couldn’t get them out. So we needed something better.”
In the late ’90s, Kirk Johansen was establishing his own car collection, but rather than the supercars you’d expect a young heir to buy, he began with surprisingly mature choices. First came a Cadillac Brougham (“which wasn’t very good”) and then, when he was just 22, a 1967 Lincoln Continental, one of the best-looking cars America has ever made, which he still owns.
Le Mans supercars at My Garage, many awaiting repair Tom Parker
Another unusually adult purchase came at 27, when, instead of a downtown penthouse, he acquired Rohden Gods, a vast estate outside Vejle, with farmland, forests, and a mile and a half of private coastline. It’s everything you’d imagine of the country home of one of Denmark’s wealthiest men, whose wedding was attended by the country’s crown prince and princess. The long driveway to the palatial, 120-year-old main house is flanked by monumental sculptures and perfectly box-cut topiary trees set in white gravel raked into neat, zen-like rows. If you’re late for a meeting with Kirk Johansen, his bell tower will expose you when it tolls the hour.
“Together with my father and brothers, we wanted to have somewhere to store and display our cars properly,” Kirk Johansen says. The result is the extraordinary two-story “motor house” in which we’re speaking, created from a massive old cowshed behind the house. On the ground level, a banked oval wooden racetrack—purely decorative, sadly—is set into the marble floor. There’s a 20-seat boardroom table, groups of Egg chairs by the master of Danish design Arne Jacobsen (clad in the room’s signature green leather), and an island bar with a Rolls-Royce Pantheon grille as the door to the central serving area.
From left to right: A Ferrari for sale at the Formula showroom; tires at the Porsche workshop; all at My Garage. Tom Parker
Arranged around the track are cars from the family’s collection, including some of Kirk Johansen’s own: a bespoke Lamborghini Aventador 780-4 Ultimae Roadster and the Lauge Jensen Viking motorcycle he created with Danish car designer Henrik Fisker. (Kirk Johansen bought the Lauge Jensen business in 2012.) Set into the marble underfoot are glass panels revealing the main garage below, which is large enough to let you swing the doors wide open on any of the 30 or so cars it houses and drive straight out, without shuffling anything out of the way.
Trust us when we say it’s every car buff’s fantasy, though we can’t show it in its entirety because, with that famous Danish unpretentiousness, members of Kirk Johansen’s immediate family prefer not to reveal which vehicles they keep here. Kirk Johansen, though, is happy to share his own collection with Robb Report. And it’s quite the trove, displaying the charming eclecticism of a true aficionado rather than the rote predictability of a showy spender—someone just as excited by the mechanical marvels of big farm equipment as by the latest hypercar, super-luxury sedan, or SUV.
Anders Kirk Johansen with Pippi in his driveway Tom Parker
Kirk Johansen has those, too, of course. There’s a Rolls-Royce Cullinan and a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen parked outside the main house and a $1.8 million (before Danish taxes) Mercedes-Maybach G 650 Landaulet in the garage alongside a Bentley Mulsanne sedan that was delivered to Kirk Johansen before the queen of Denmark received hers. But there’s also an early-’90s Mazda Miata, tiny and perfect, and a cheesy ’80s Cadillac stretch limo that he bought in the U.S. for just $7,000—but shipped home at considerably greater cost—because it’s exactly the same model and color as a toy he had as a child, which now resides on its dashboard. When his daughters want to go to Legoland, back near the airport, they take the Cadillac.
“We had events here, and a little club for friends with interesting cars, and those friends were asking if they could store cars here,” Kirk Johansen says. “We were doing some Porsche restorations at Rohden and needed more space for that. We could have built another garage here, but it would have spoiled the symmetry of the place. We wanted to do something similar but on a bigger scale and without ever being snobby. And that’s kind of where My Garage came from.”
A retro Porsche being rebuilt in the workshop at My Garage. Tom Parker
That’s where we go next, Kirk Johansen leading the short drive in his Ferrari 812. I know we’re getting close when a Porsche 911 Turbo and a perfectly restored vintage Mini appear ahead of us, standing out amid the nondescript Danish traffic and clearly heading to the same place.
The chain of low, stylish but unassuming buildings that My Garage now occupies began life as a carpet factory, whose domed, skylighted ceilings arch over the main showroom. “I’d been driving past it every day for two years, noticing that it was for sale and wondering who would buy it, when I decided to,” Kirk Johansen says. “It was perfect for My Garage.”
You enter past a hyperreal, life-size sculpture of a security guard by American artist Marc Sijan from Kirk Johansen’s personal collection to access an ever-changing automotive museum in which the exhibits are all being sold, worked on, stored, or driven—and one the public is welcome to wander through freely. The approach is similar to that taken at Fjordenhus, Kirk Johansen’s family’s office on the waterfront in Vejle, from which Kirk Kapital’s billion-dollar investment fund is managed. The first building designed by Icelandic Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, Fjordenhus features a ground floor that is open to the public and houses a display of Eliasson’s art. Fjordenhus stands opposite a hotel, Kirk Suites, which the clan also built. Enzo & C, an excellent Italian restaurant there, is co-owned by Kirk Johansen’s brother and displays a Ferrari Testarossa from the family collection. The dynasty’s influence on the area—building the airport and Legoland and maintaining a large manufacturing base despite cheaper options overseas—is readily apparent, as is its commitment to democratic public access.
A mechanic at the Porsche workshop Tom Parker
And what vehicles the public can see at My Garage. Over here is an extreme, modern, bare-carbon-bodied Dallara Stradale sports car; there, a 1958 Porsche tractor and a banana-yellow 1990s Volvo T-5R station wagon. Kirk Johansen’s own cars add to this mad kaleidoscope: In one workshop we find his Panther amphibious car, a 300-mile Volkswagen Beetle, a bespoke armored Range Rover built in the 1970s for Juan Carlos, the former king of Spain, and the bare shell of Kirk Johansen’s grandfather’s Mini, which is undergoing a full restoration.
Even the highest-end classic-car dealerships and workshops can sometimes feel like they’ve out-grown their spaces, but here there’s no crowding.
In fact, My Garage has so much space—about 215,000 square feet currently—that employees use electric scooters to whizz down the broad, polished-concrete indoor boulevards that link the individual showrooms and workshops.
The walls are adorned with oversize, expertly curated images from motorsport’s most glamorous eras. Like Kirk Johansen’s private garage at the Rohden estate, everything is done exceedingly well.
Despite modest aims at the outset, My Garage has expanded to provide nearly everything that the owner of an exceptional car—or a collection of them—might need. Its double-stacked glass display cases are its most distinctive visual feature and are mostly rented by private clients for an extremely reasonable $360 per month per box, which holds one car. Their vehicles become part of the theater of the place, with everything from F1 cars to modern hypercars to vintage Rolls-Royces on display, with gallery-style descriptions on each vitrine and many visible from the road outside.
A sales room Tom Parker
A car can be removed from its glass box and repaired, maintained, detailed, and prepared for a drive without ever going outdoors. Entrepreneur Kasper Gissel lives a five-minute drive from My Garage and has stored up to three cars there since 2019, with a perfect 1968 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow currently on display. Why house vehicles here when he could keep his cars in his own garage?
“It’s heated here, for a start,” he says with a laugh, “and Denmark gets quite cold in winter. But it’s really the convenience. Why not spend a little more money to be able to spend more time enjoying the cars? If it needs work, they can either do it here or they’ll know a guy. And when I want to drive it, it’s always ready and can be taken out of the box with about 15 minutes’ notice. It’s never a problem, because a lot of the cars here are investments and don’t get driven.”
In addition to authorized workshops for Porsche, Ferrari, Maserati, and BMW, My Garage operates new-car dealerships for Rolls-Royce, McLaren, Lotus, Morgan, Dallara, and Kalmar. It also has an impressive selection of pre-owned and classic cars for sale; its late-model, high-end Porsche offerings are particularly well-curated, despite the boss claiming he’s not a Porsche guy. There are independent dealers here, too, including an official Ferrari and Maserati concession and another selling more affordable classics of all marques. They might be rivals for My Garage’s own retail sales, but Kirk Johansen has granted them leases in order to broaden the facility’s automotive ecosystem, which also includes painters, detailers, and racing workshops.
The Ferrari workshop. Tom Parker
“On any given day, we’ll have multiple visitors who are worth $50 million or $100 million, and we’ll have a billionaire or two every week,” says Per Madsbøll Pedersen, who owns My Garage’s wine merchant, Wine Mage. “As a tenant, you can only hope to get into a place like this. The network here is unique in Denmark and probably in most of the world.”
“Vejle is a hub,” he adds. “Everyone in Denmark passes through at some point. But we also have one of Denmark’s biggest concentrations of wealth here. My business could easily live off the people in our backyard.”
Wine Mage, the wine shop at My Garage. Tom Parker
Madsbøll Pedersen believes that Kirk Johansen gave the lease to his start-up rather than to an established fine-wine seller just to help a new business. “I told him I want to build one of the biggest brands in the world,” he recalls. “He likes the idea of building big businesses—I guess it’s in the family. If I’d have been a normal company with no big plan, he wouldn’t have been interested.” Madsbøll Pedersen adds that watching Kirk Johansen make a success of the place has been gratifying. “A lot of people thought, ‘This guy inherited his money and he’s not going to be able to build this.’ It’s so nice to see them proven wrong.”
The enterprise isn’t entirely unique: The Classic Remise centers in Berlin and Düsseldorf, housed in spectacular old tram and train sheds, respectively, probably come closest to the concept. But they don’t quite have the intimacy of My Garage, its range of services, or the sense of almost pastoral care for clients’ cars. Owning a superfluous car ought to be fun, but it’s often a pain in the ass. My Garage makes all the attendant obligations easy and convenient.
The customers’ storage area. Tom Parker
And it seems set to keep growing. Kirk Johansen has permission to expand My Garage’s footprint to about 750,000 square feet. More auto businesses will come first and then more vehicle storage, with a 16-story tower adding 120 glass boxes to the 96 already installed. He has also been approached to create plans for a hotel, restaurants, private banks, and watch dealers, all of which are under consideration.
If you mourn the fact that there’s nothing quite like My Garage near you—to help you spend less time administering to your cars and more time enjoying them—your despair may soon be over. Kirk Johansen is in discussions to franchise his concept and his brand in places with more obvious displays of concentrated wealth and where interesting cars don’t suffer such punitive taxation. If his idea works here, just think of how it might fly in, say, Miami or Monaco.
To activate the split-screen mode in Android Auto, you just have to connect your device to your car like normal.
On the Home screen, you should tap the Apps button on the bottom left corner of the screen.
Once you do this, there should be a multi-window button that will replace it in that same bottom left corner.
Pressing this will automatically switch the main display to split-screen mode.
If this button doesn't appear, you will probably need to ensure the Android Auto app is fully up-to-date. Split screen is a relatively recent feature and you will need the latest version of the app if you want to take advantage of it. To ensure you have this, open the Google Play store and search for the Android Auto app. There should be an Update button that appears here if you do not already have the latest version. Once it's finished updating, you should be able to easily turn split screen mode on and off. That's all you need to do to enjoy Android Auto split screen — but you can still customize it further.
Not even the NYPD’s own cars are safe from the auto-theft explosion in the city.
So far this year there have been 8,627 auto thefts compared to 7,319 in the same period in 2022, an 18% surge, even as other serious crimes have ticked down, NYPD data show.
The picture is even more dire when considering car thefts have skyrocketed 150% from 2018, when there were 5,428 vehicle thefts, to 2022 when there were 13,750.
Thieves even targeted an unmarked NYPD car Monday in Queens, police sources said.
The department Ford Edge, which was driven by a police boss, was stolen in the 100th Precinct after the key fob was left inside, police said.
The thief was “door surfing,” one source said, looking for open doors and keys left inside vehicles.
It was recovered several hours later after pinging on a license-plate reader in the Rockaways, cops said.
The Edge was at least the second police car stolen this year.
Four carjackers boosted a black undercover KIA from outside the 45 Precinct’s Detective Bureau in the Bronx on Jan. 24 before crashing it 12 hours later.
Not even vehicles in the department’s own fleet are safe, with two known cases of unmarked cop cars stolen this year.Robert Mecea
Police believed the theft was inspired by a TikTok challenge — which has been viewed millions of times on the social media site — where thieves use a USB cord to bypass the ignition through the steering wheel column.
The department is poised to announce a new auto-theft enforcement plan this week, police sources said.
The plan will begin as a test in the Bronx and North Queens, where the thefts are the worst.
The NYPD plans to install about 40 detectives into its auto crime unit, police sources said.
A Ford Edge was stolen Monday morning after the key fob was left inside.policecarwebsite.net
The “white-shield” investigators — cops who have been given a bump up to the rank of detective — will interview victims and canvas for video.
If they are able to build cases, full-fledged detectives will pick them up and run with them, the sources said.
The jump in car thefts in the city is “crazy,” said recently retired NYPD Detective Thomas Burke, who worked in Auto Crime for more than 30 years.
He said he believes auto theft continues to increase because it has a higher return rate and lower downside than other crimes.
The Kia challenge has sparked some of the uptick in car thefts.@tee.nija/TikTok
“If you get caught with a stolen car, you’re getting a desk appearance ticket,” Burke said.
“If you get caught with a kilo of cocaine, you’re going to do some time. If I’m a thinking criminal, I’m looking at the type of crime where I can make the most money and get the least amount of punishment if I get caught.”
In early July, multinational engineering and electronics giant Bosch, or — to be more precise — the supplier division of the company that produces automotive components and other industrial products, announced an agreement between management and employee representatives on the future prospects of 80,000 employees in Germany, ensuring there will be no compulsory redundancies until the end of 2027.
This will benefit workers in the traditional internal combustion engine sector. The transformation processes German automakers have been forced to start have affected suppliers, stoking fears of job losses. There are fears that the shift to electromobility will cost many jobs.
Electric drives are simple in design
Power units for e-cars are made up of significantly fewer parts than combustion engine technology. German carmakers are increasingly investing in the development of software for electronic networking and driver assistance systems. This shift has led to retraining where possible, but also job losses for combustion engine specialists.
'The goal of the transformation must be to make it as socially acceptable as possible,' says Bosch CEO Stefan HartungImage: Bernd Weißbrod/picture alliance/dpa
The VW Group is restructuring its plants and is planning to set up more production sites in Eastern Europe for cost reasons. This news has already led to considerable unrest among the workforce at suppliers like Bosch.
The supplier division is the largest sector of Germany's auto industry. It accounted for almost 60% of the €88 billion ($98 billion) in sales the company generated last year. Worldwide, more than half of the approximately 420,000 employees work in this division.
Transformation will take a long time
"The goal of the transformation must be to make it as socially acceptable as possible," Bosch CEO Stefan Hartung recently told German weekly Welt am Sonntag.
There are 1.4 billion vehicles on the road worldwide, and the entire auto industry currently has a production capacity of just under 90 million vehicles per year, Hartung said. To illustrate the dimensions of the change, he calculated that "even if we were to build only all-electric vehicles starting tomorrow - which is impossible simply because of a lack of battery capacity - we would need at least 15 years to replace them all."
Business is picking up again following massive supply chain problems and the chip crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The world's 100 largest auto suppliers have seen their sales expand strongly thanks to price increases and higher vehicle production. According to a study by Berylls, a management consultancy specializing in the automotive sector, they grew by 16% last year compared with the pre-pandemic year 2019, breaking a trillion euros for the first time.
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Sales rise, profits shrink
Higher prices of raw materials and energy have been eating away at profit margins. But not all global regions have been affected in the same way. "While Europe suffered from high energy costs, Chinese companies were hardly affected. This effect was particularly strong in Germany," the study said.
German suppliers Bosch, ZF Friedrichshafen and Continental continue to top the list of top 100 suppliers, along with Japan's Denso Group. From Germany, Mahle, Schaeffler, Brose, Eberspächer, Dräxlmaier and ThyssenKrupp are also among the big players.
But "Korean and Chinese suppliers are making exceptionally strong gains, while the market share of German and Japanese companies continues to decline," Berylls' wrote.
In the coming years, the shift in favor of Chinese suppliers is likely to continue, says Berylls partner Alexander Timmer. "Key drivers for this are the advancing electrification and digitalization of vehicles."
At the moment, German manufacturers are still feeding off the high order backlog that piled up last year due to a lack of components. But new orders are hardly coming in because of the uncertain economy. According to the German Automobile Manufacturers Association (VDA), 20% fewer orders were registered in June than in the previous year. Since the beginning of 2023, domestic orders have fallen by 27%.
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Business outlook is extremely negative
According to a survey published in July by the Munich-based Ifo Institute, German automakers said the outlook is the worst its been since the international financial crisis. The corresponding indicator fell for the fifth time in a row.
"There is a lot of uncertainty among carmakers, as there was at the beginning of the war in Ukraine or when the risk of gas rationing for the industry increased significantly in the fall," said Oliver Falck, head of the Ifo Center for Industrial Economics and New Technologies.
And this explains why German suppliers are more pessimistic about the future than they have been for a long time.
This article was originally written in German.
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