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logo 39 • the CAMLOG Partner Magazine • November 2016 LIFESTYLE 41 batteries and the still more than scarce provision of charging stations in Germany. From an anticyclical view, one could argue that the battery disaster presently suffered by Samsung also offers opportunities of considerably advancing development to achieve a breakthrough. A look at the pipelines of our leading automotive manufacturers in Germany indicates that the challenges have been understood and accepted. For example, Daimler Benz has assured us that they will have more than ten fully electric vehicle models on the market by 2025. And the competitors from Munich, Wolfsburg, Rüsselsheim and Cologne are not far behind. Let's get our act together! Didn't somebody just recently sing the daunting line "Things continue beyond the horizon" ("Hinter'm Horizont geht's weiter")? Instead of being faint-hearted, maybe we should place our trust in old rocker Udo Lindenberg's text line and combine it with proven German engineering virtues to catapult the automobile into a new era. The gentlemen Nicolaus August Otto, Wilhelm Maybach and Karl Benz have already demonstrated par excellence and "Made in Germany" how this can be achieved.