Constance Arnt

I've always been a politically interested person. In my job as branch manager here for the fashion business, I was part of the city center. And of course, in this context, I was also more interested in topics such as city development, retail locations, parking fees. And that just always bothered me when others decided about things that concerned me.

You have to be able to develop a city, to develop society. And of course you always have to do it in such a way that everybody who lives in the city feels accepted. But we must not stop modernizing our city or modernizing society. Are women better at understanding this future? Is it men who cling more to the idea of the petrol car, the old style motoring?

Is this primarily a male discussion? Definitely yes. Men have a completely different relationship with their cars. I really like driving my electric car. It really suits me. But I think women are a bit more pragmatic when it comes to this kind of car, as in the first place it's a way of getting from A to B.

That's not what I'm hoping for. But I was in Shanghai in China in 2024 and I just saw what was going on on the streets there. And we all know how it was in the textile industry, household appliances, entertainment technology. There are no relevant European manufacturers anymore. And for a town like Zwickau, a motor town with a history going back over a century, that must be especially worrying.

Tietysti, jos meillä ei ole enää auto-industria täällä, niin iso osa meidän regionaalista ekonomiä kääntyy meille. Ihmiset ovat rauhoittuneita siitä, mitä he viettävät, ja uskovat, että jos me jatketaan tekemään petro-autoja, me voimme pyrkiä lopettamaan tämän prosessin. Tuo rauha, että maanmuutoksen kääntymä on rauhoittunut, näyttää, kuinka tulevaisuus autoa on kasvattu poliittisessa suhteessa.