If it is up to Daimler Trucks' managing director Martin Daum, the price of petrol must rise with new taxes every single year, so that motorists buy nothing but electric cars.
Martin Daum, who has been managing director of Mercedes' truck division Daimler Trucks since 2019, is on his way out. In fact, he resigned from his position on October 1 this year.
But on the way out he has the doren in a new edition of the podcast SWF Podcast shared his thoughts on how the transition to electric cars can go fastest. And it's very simple – because it all has to take place through coercion.
Instead of introducing tax rebates and special support schemes for electric cars, the various countries should just make all other alternatives as expensive as possible, believes the now soon-to-be former director.
– If we were to go out today and decide that the price of a liter of petrol every year on the first of January is raised by ten ores, then within the first three or four years alone it will be within a normal limit, he says.
According to the managing director, the prospect of annual fuel price increases alone will make it impossible for people who frequently drive to choose, for example, the petrol or diesel car over the electric car.
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Daum also says that the annual price increases can be reduced to 'as little as five ore' in taxes. But that the conversion to pure electric cars in the world of passenger cars 'will take twice as long'.
Conversely, Daum also contradicts himself. Because in the podcast he is told that he is 'opposed to promoting electric cars'. At least when it comes to state aid. Instead, Martin Daum believes that the individual countries should focus on building more charging stations.
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