Daimler to convert engine production to electric motors at its largest factory - Polidicks

[QUOTE]In one of its biggest move toward that goal, the company announced today plans for its major Untertürkheim plant to produce electric motors in a deal with workers. Daimler employs over 19,000 people at the Untertürkheim factory, one of the biggest powertrain manufacturing facility in the world. There are a lot of complex internal combustion engines (ICE) coming out of that place, which produces everything from complete engines, axles, transmissions and other components. Due to the transition to electric propulsion, which requires simpler electric motors, the company expects the modernisation of the plant will require significantly fewer employees. [/QUOTE] [url]https://electrek.co/2017/02/14/daimler-electric-vehicle-production/[/url]

Huge win for the electric car industry and clean energy as a whole.

Does Daimler already have any proprietary electric motors? How do they compare to Teslas?

[quote]Due to the transition to electric propulsion, which requires simpler electric motors, the company expects the modernisation of the plant will require significantly fewer employees.[/quote] Sucks for those who will be out of a job afterwards, but tis' the future of the industry. Hopefully they'll find work again when more ev factories start popping up.

[QUOTE=The Rifleman;51823164]Huge win for the electric car industry and clean energy as a whole.[/QUOTE] And a huge loss of livelihoods for the people in that plant. Nothing is free.

[QUOTE=TestECull;51823399]And a huge loss of livelihoods for the people in that plant. Nothing is free.[/QUOTE] Those jobs were going one way or another

[QUOTE=TestECull;51823399]And a huge loss of livelihoods for the people in that plant. Nothing is free.[/QUOTE] Wouldn't be a problem if society took care of it's citizens.

Job loss is inevitable. We shouldn't be working for the sake of working. It's not a businesses job to make sure you have a job to do. If you have no use for the business, you gotta go. There's going to be a lot of unemployment in the automation age. At least at first, anyway.

[QUOTE=OvB;51823450]Job loss is inevitable. We shouldn't be working for the sake of working. It's not a businesses job to make sure you have a job to do. If you have no use for the business, you gotta go. There's going to be a lot of unemployment in the automation age. At least at first, anyway.[/QUOTE] At first? High unemployment will be here to stay, there are only so many skilled labor jobs and not everyone is cut out for one. We have so many people going to college but so few of them can write or read basic English. The number of students who keep mispronouncing words that they shouldn't be having trouble with is astounding, while also misusing words like reparations when they meant to use reimburse(actually happened in my class) and the teacher grills some for not knowing how to write. In another class there were people never used Microsoft Word before going to college, but in their defense they were girls from wealthy families and never had to work a job at all their whole life. Maybe if we had some kind of population cull unemployment will be controlled, but I doubt it. There will be another recession in the near future when no one has the money to buy anything.

Good, I'm fucking tired of getting raped at the pumps. I wana be able to slap some giant ass solar panels on my house and the roof of my car and never pay for gas again.

[QUOTE]Due to the transition to electric propulsion, which requires simpler electric motors, the company expects the modernisation of the plant will require significantly fewer employees.[/QUOTE] I never thought about this; first you will end up with fewer workers making cars, because it is a simpler design, but also car shops will probably also have to reduce staff since EV are easier to maintain.

[QUOTE=ultra_bright;51823525]Good, I'm fucking tired of getting raped at the pumps. I wana be able to slap some giant ass solar panels on my house and the roof of my car and never pay for gas again.[/QUOTE] Jesus Christ mate you should report that I don't get raped at the pumps around these parts, but the petrol is quite expensive [editline]15th February 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=AntonioR;51823902]I never thought about this; first you will end up with fewer workers making cars, because it is a simpler design, but also car shops will probably also have to reduce staff since EV are easier to maintain.[/QUOTE] Cutting out the middle man. Artificially keeping these jobs would be ridiculous, it's progress. More efficiently building cars is a great thing. Mechanics and process line workers will need to adapt their career path to somewhere else.

[QUOTE=LtKyle2;51823514]At first? High unemployment will be here to stay, there are only so many skilled labor jobs and not everyone is cut out for one. We have so many people going to college but so few of them can write or read basic English. The number of students who keep mispronouncing words that they shouldn't be having trouble with is astounding, while also misusing words like reparations when they meant to use reimburse(actually happened in my class) and the teacher grills some for not knowing how to write. In another class there were people never used Microsoft Word before going to college, but in their defense they were girls from wealthy families and never had to work a job at all their whole life. Maybe if we had some kind of population cull unemployment will be controlled, but I doubt it. There will be another recession in the near future when no one has the money to buy anything.[/QUOTE] The cap for the service industry is pretty high, definitely much higher than what the US currently has in that regard. The main issue is with education, so US companies at this point often have to hire abroad to fill those positions at all.

[QUOTE=TestECull;51823399]And a huge loss of livelihoods for the people in that plant. Nothing is free.[/QUOTE] Do note that the loss of people's jobs has never been an obstacle for progress in production automation and technology.

It's sort of disappointing that traditional ICE manufacturers are just going to flop around like beached fish while EVs decimate the commuter car market. It would have been incredible to see some real competition and innovation in the core design principles of combustion engines. Camless/electronic cylinder heads, high octane biofuels, aggressive forced induction, standardisation of direct injection systems, etc. However with that said auto manufacturers don't seem interested in producing anything other than the same shit they've been pumping out for the last 30 years so I guess the EV will be the car of the future for the most part

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;51823417]Wouldn't be a problem if society took care of it's citizens.[/QUOTE] fortunately germany does so... [editline]14th February 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=hypno-toad;51824179]It's sort of disappointing that traditional ICE manufacturers are just going to flop around like beached fish while EVs decimate the commuter car market. It would have been incredible to see some real competition and innovation in the core design principles of combustion engines. Camless/electronic cylinder heads, high octane biofuels, aggressive forced induction, standardisation of direct injection systems, etc. However with that said auto manufacturers don't seem interested in producing anything other than the same shit they've been pumping out for the last 30 years so I guess the EV will be the car of the future for the most part[/QUOTE] dude, ICEs are not going to get much more advanced than they are today without being supremely expensive. electric motors are dead simple compared to all those schemes to eak out an additional % of efficiency

Daimler never ceases to amaze.