Daimler is on the stock market of almost 40 billion euros in value, Tesla’s 225 billion euros. For all the curious peculiarities of stock market prices, says a lot about what is going on in Stuttgart: a lot of Tradition, Pride and clumsiness, but little courage, imagination, and pioneering spirit.
The long-standing Daimler-Chef Dieter Zetsche knew that. Very publicly, he announced early in the rehabilitation needs: The need to regulate his successor, he said, months before he adopted last spring to retire. That is to say: the previously because of its sales records celebrated Manager can see the group, eye in the crisis to.
so now When Daimler appears as a rehabilitation case, then the cause is not due to the Corona pandemic. Which has exacerbated the problems. Much earlier, Daimler would have had to concentrate on the changing markets and mobility needs.