Editing Aachen (section)

=== Electric vehicle manufacturing ===
[[File:2016-12-10-Post Streetscooter-9409.jpg|thumb|StreetScooter ''Work'' as DHL delivery van (2016)]]

In June 2010, Achim Kampker, together with Günther Schuh, founded a small company to develop electric powered light utility vehicles; in August 2014, it was renamed [[StreetScooter]] GmbH. This started as a privately organised research initiative at the [[RWTH Aachen University]], before becoming the independent company in Aachen. Kampker was also the founder and chairman of the European Network for Affordable and Sustainable Electromobility. In May 2014, the company announced that the city of Aachen, the city council Aachen and the savings bank Aachen had ordered electric vehicles from the company. In late 2014, approximately 70 employees were manufacturing 200 vehicles annually in the premises of the [[Waggonfabrik Talbot]], the former Talbot/Bombardier plant in Aachen.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dhl.com/en/press/releases/releases_2014/group/dpdhl_acquires_streetscooter_gmbh.html |title=Deutsche Post DHL acquires StreetScooter GmbH |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=9 December 2014 |website=DHL |access-date=26 March 2017 |archive-date=13 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513071648/http://www.dhl.com/en/press/releases/releases_2014/group/dpdhl_acquires_streetscooter_gmbh.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In December 2014 [[DHL Group]] purchased the StreetScooter company from Günther, operating it as a wholly owned subsidiary.<ref>[http://www.dpdhl.com/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/2014/deutsche_post_dhl_uebernimmt_streetscooter_gmbh.html Deutsche Post DHL übernimmt StreetScooter GmbH] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320123908/http://www.dpdhl.com/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/2014/deutsche_post_dhl_uebernimmt_streetscooter_gmbh.html |date=20 March 2018 }} 9.</ref>

In 2015, Günther founded a new electric vehicle company, [[e.GO Mobile]], which started producing the e.GO Life electric passenger car and other vehicles in April 2019.

By April 2016, StreetScooter announced that it would produce 2000 of its electric vans, branded the Work, in Aachen by the end of the year, and would be scaling up to manufacture approximately 10,000 Works annually, starting in 2017, also in Aachen.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/der-tausendste-elektro-streetscooter-der-deutschen-post-14401894.html |title=Streetscooter – Der tausendste Elektro-Transporter der Post |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=23 August 2016 |newspaper=Faz.net |publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH |access-date=26 March 2017 |quote=Die Post will ihren gesamten Fuhrpark auf Elektro-Autos umstellen. Bis dahin dauert es noch. Einen wichtigen Schritt hat das Unternehmen nun aber gemacht. |archive-date=20 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320234429/http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/der-tausendste-elektro-streetscooter-der-deutschen-post-14401894.html |url-status=live }}</ref> At the time, this target would make it the largest electric light utility vehicle manufacturer in Europe, surpassing [[Renault]]'s smaller [[Renault Kangoo|Kangoo Z.E.]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Weiss |first=Richard |date=24 March 2017 |title=Even Germany's post office is building an electric car |url=http://www.therecord.com/news-story/7207920-even-germany-s-post-office-is-building-an-electric-car/ |work=Waterloo Region Record |location=Kitchener, Ontario |access-date=26 March 2017 |archive-date=20 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020035708/https://www.therecord.com/news-story/7207920-even-germany-s-post-office-is-building-an-electric-car/ |url-status=live }}</ref>