Under the motto “Baden-Württemberg: An automotive location with a future – opportunities and challenges”, the 8th annual event of the Strategy Dialogue Automotive Industry Baden-Württemberg (SDA) took place yesterday. Numerous participants from the automotive industry, science, research and representatives of civil society came together at the Karlsruhe Trade Fair Center.
In the high-level session in the morning, high-ranking representatives from business, politics and science discussed challenges and solutions for overcoming the current crisis in the automotive industry. MAHLE CEO Arnd Franz spoke out in favor of a technology-open regulatory approach to the future of the vehicle drive unit. Franz also emphasized the urgent need to work on the future viability of Baden-Württemberg as an automotive location.
The official high-level event was followed by the “Maker Space”, an innovation exhibition of the companies participating in the Strategy Dialogue. Around 40 companies and institutions presented their innovative projects here and used the opportunity to make new contacts and networks. chargeBIG was part of the exhibition together with its parent company MAHLE and was therefore able to present two charging innovations: Our scalable and intelligent smallBOX charging solutions up to 22 kW and the inductive charging plate for contactless charging of electric vehicles at 11 kW. We were also delighted to welcome a prominent visitor to our stand: Winfried Kretschmann, Minister President of the state of Baden-Württemberg, had the product experts explain everything about MAHLE’s innovative charging technologies during his exclusive tour.
At the end of the day, experts from the areas of “vehicle”, “data” and “energy” discussed the future of Baden-Württemberg as an automotive location in several panel discussions. The discussions highlighted both the opportunities and the challenges that the industry will have to face in the coming years.
About the Strategy Dialogue Automotive Industry BW
In the Strategy Dialogue Automotive Industry BW (SDA), the state government works closely with the automotive industry, science & research, civil society, employee and environmental associations and other stakeholders. The common goal is to maintain value creation and jobs in our leading industry in Baden-Württemberg and to make the state a pioneer of climate and environmentally friendly mobility.
