New Year´s Greetings 2026

The world is currently in quite a state of turmoil, as was accurately predicted last year. And this will certainly continue this year.

For us as a company, there has been a significant change at the end of 2025: we have a new owner in Natural Power.

In this regard, we are very confident that we are in ‘good hands’ and that we will also be able to generate benefits for you. In any case, we are looking forward to the opportunities for further development that we now have with our many new colleagues in the UK, Ireland, France, Italy and the US.

The basis of all our business, renewable energies and the new technologies directly linked to them, are developing into a global tsunami with exponentially increasing height in terms of fundamental data.

No oil sheikh, dictator, autocrat or aspiring dictator has been able to stop this. What is truly regrettable is that the fossil fuel empire seems to be dragging half the world down with it in its death throes.

Although one may occasionally be overcome by frustration, with all the exponential drivers, the glass has become fuller. Two more have just been added. Lorries and buses, which have been quite a problem up to now, were to be tackled with e-fuels and fuel cells. That is history. Here, too, batteries will prevail. Just as BEVs are already replacing old Mercedes cars in Africa today. And this will reduce the primary energy required for this huge sector by a factor of at least 3.

This unstoppable development seems to be misunderstood by the federal government and, of course, especially by the Bavarian State Chancellery.

Taxpayers' money is being squandered on H2 cars, and the range extender is supposed to be the key component in saving combustion engine technology. The late Franz Josef Strauß, so often quoted by the ruling party in Bavaria, is turning in his grave. He was, after all, a staunch supporter of future technologies. Whatever your opinion of nuclear power, in FJS's day it was THE technology of the future, promising cheap electricity, independence and clean power generation. Just like renewables today. He wanted to phase out coal, partly for climate and environmental reasons, not extend its lifespan.

And all this fuss now, of all times, when German car manufacturers are once again establishing themselves at the forefront of electric car technology. After doing a truly commendable job (one has to give him credit) in promoting Bavarian wind energy and, in particular, speeding up approval times, Aiwanger Hubsi will probably soon be personally overseeing a start-up, the ‘1st Bavarian Steam Carriage Manufactory’, which is working on the development of highly efficient piston steam engines.

There is sometimes a lack of seriousness in politics, especially in Bavaria. For example, all the sniping from the State Chancellery against the EU regulation on plastic lids. Bavarians are used to drinking from a beer mug with a pewter lid. They've been doing so since they were babies. So they'll be able to cope with a plastic lid, which won't spoil the Bavarian landscape that is so often cited as wonderful. Not to mention the discussion about the declaration of vegan sausage.

Much of this could also be due to the fact that very few politicians are engineers, but a disproportionate number of them tend to believe that they can bend the laws of nature with paper paragraphs.

Germany has made two things great. Our future-generating engineers, together with our skilled workforce, and our once highly efficient bureaucracy.

We should remember this if we want to make Europe and Germany great.

And with that in mind, I wish you all a happy 2026 with new exponential curves.

P.S.: Of course, our colloquium will take place again this year. As always, it will be held in the historic greenhouse at Nymphenburg Palace. Please reserve 17 June 2026 in your diary.

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