BMW’s CEO Oliver Zipse speaking at an automobile congress in Berlin this weeksaid that the move to ban the sale of petrol and diesel models in Europe andaround the globe by 2035 threatened the livelihoods of thousands of workers.This is not the first time the BMW CEO has been outspoken on the move tooutlaw the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines, suggesting theindustry will look different in terms of scale and structure that it does today if itgoes to just one technology. Zipse comments echo those of Toyota’s ChairmanAkio Toyoda, who last month said Japan’s plan to ban sales of new petrol anddiesel-powered vehicles, also by 2035, would lead to millions of job losses there.Toyota recently announced a partnership with BMW to build a mass-producedhydrogen fuel cell vehicle. I’m David Berthon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.