Ljubljana - Večer says in Saturday's commentary that the time of uncertainty in the automotive industry is an excellent platform for new mobility models, adding that sharing economy could be catapulted into the orbit of the future right now.

Uncertainty cannot be avoided in the automotive industry, and everything is accompanied by a steep rise in infections, which are starting to control the everyday in industry, the newspaper says under the headline Uncertainty.

Večer notes the announcement by the Slovenian car assembly plant Revoz, a subsidiary of Renault, to cut production by another half a shift, saying that this "seems like counting the victims of the war in advance".

"We could, encouraged by the experience of past fluctuations that says that decline is always followed by growth, find it easier to accept this, if everything that has piled up on the automotive industry was not so clearly underlined by uncertainty."

Večer notes that steel, aluminium, copper and other key raw materials for electronic components are becoming more expensive, their delivery time is being extended, while demand in many industries that consume electronic components is increasing.

The automotive industry, which procures only a tenth of all semiconductors, is too small to have more influence than it has, the paper says, noting that this is apparently sufficient only for limited production.

"The car industry as we knew it (and perceived it) will no longer exist. It will be different. It will become greener, it will have to operate in a more sustainable way. It will have to change its products, but before that it needs to understand what the customers want."

The paper adds that the time of uncertainty is an excellent platform for new mobility models and that sharing economy can be launched into the orbit of the future exactly now. "And if it succeeds, what now seems unusual will be a new normal."