Ferdinand Dudenhöffer

Prof Dr Ferdinand Dudenhöffer is the founder and director of the private Automotive Research Centre in Bochum and one of Germany’s most renowned automotive experts. He studied and obtained his doctorate at the University of Mannheim and then moved to the automotive industry. There, Prof Dr Ferdinand Dudenhöffer worked in leading positions at Opel, Porsche, Peugeot and Citroën. Subsequently, he worked as a professor of marketing and business administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Gelsenkirchen and as a professor of general business administration and automotive economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. 

Photos: CAR, Bochum

“Battery-electric passenger cars (BEV) in Europe will cost the same as combustion engines even before 2030.”

— Ferdinand Dudenhöffer