Inter­view

WUNDERKIND INVEST

In this inter­view, Armin Pohl, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of WUNDERKIND INVEST GmbH from Neckar­tail­fin­gen in Baden-Würt­tem­berg, points out the phi­los­o­phy of his con­sult­ing and invest­ment com­pa­ny. What are the obvi­ous spe­cial fea­tures and what is nec­es­sary to have last­ing suc­cess as a com­pa­ny founder and inno­va­tion dri­ver will be con­sid­ered here.

Foto: © Markus Bolsinger

We are very pleased to have won you, Armin, as an inter­view part­ner. As a dis­cov­er­er and pro­mot­er of so-called “prodi­gies”, you have a spe­cial role to play. Because invest­ing in a project or an idea is not the only focus for you and your team Let’s take a look at your basic prin­ci­pals for deci­sion-mak­ing: Pur­pose — Fun — Suc­cess. Can you describe this trin­i­ty with a pop­u­lar example?

I would say that’s not hard for me to describe, espe­cial­ly since I was per­son­al­ly more deeply involved in a very excit­ing matter.

You’re talk­ing about the flag­ship project called e‑Lorean?

Exact­ly. I’ll have to take a moment to explain this, because the his­to­ry of the orig­i­nal DeLore­an — the one we know from the block­buster “Back to the Future” — is char­ac­ter­ized by an unmis­tak­ably appeal­ing design. But unfor­tu­nate­ly, the engine per­for­mance of the orig­i­nal mod­el was more than under­whelm­ing. So it hap­pened that we looked around for a mod­ern alter­na­tive and decid­ed on the elec­tric dri­ve. Togeth­er with eWorks, a com­pa­ny belong­ing to the “Wun­derkind Group”, we were able to install an elec­tric motor that was sim­ply con­vinc­ing in its per­for­mance. This meant that we were basi­cal­ly going back to the future.

What was the response to the project and the fin­ished development?

One high­light was that Fab­rizio Giu­gia­ro, son of auto­mo­tive design icon Gior­gio Giu­gia­ro and also a high­ly dec­o­rat­ed design­er, joined me on a test dri­ve at the IAA 2021 in Munich. Believe me when I say that he was thor­ough­ly excit­ed by the new per­for­mance of the e‑motor, which has breathed new life into this leg­endary vehi­cle. And I think that has to be seen as a suc­cess, too.

In a way, you are a celebri­ty your­self, if one looks around the broad field of the ven­ture cap­i­tal and invest­ment sec­tor, and I’m sure you’ve already answered the ques­tion about your recipe for suc­cess many times. May we nev­er­the­less ask what makes you tick and what spe­cif­ic ideas you have about an entre­pre­neur­ial future?

Of course. As founder and active man­ag­ing direc­tor of Wun­derkind Invest, I am look­ing for the opti­mal match. Although the basic inten­tion of young entre­pre­neurs is impor­tant, the per­son­al­i­ty, the charis­ma and the sym­pa­thy of the act­ing per­sons have at least as much influ­ence on a pos­si­ble coop­er­a­tion. Dog­mas dis­gust me and I see myself as a prag­ma­tist. Per­haps even as a green prag­ma­tist, since I appre­ci­ate nature, which is also expressed in the fact that quite a few of my invest­ments have an eco­log­i­cal­ly mean­ing­ful, but also eco­nom­i­cal­ly lucra­tive basis. And where, if not in the green indus­try, is more progress being made these days? I also see this at Solar­na­tive, whose prod­ucts are high­ly inter­est­ing for the pho­to­volta­ic indus­try and thus also for end cus­tomers. For such ven­tures to suc­ceed, a busi­ness part­ner is need­ed who under­stands that speed ensures the supe­ri­or­i­ty of the new. The mar­ket launch of a tech­nol­o­gy or ser­vice must there­fore take place as quick­ly as possible.

Foto: © Markus Bolsinger

PV system installation

Pri­vate­ly used PV sys­tems are becom­ing increas­ing­ly pop­u­lar. The order for a PV sys­tem instal­la­tion involves a num­ber of tasks for you as an installer: The sys­tem must be planned togeth­er with the client before it is installed and con­nect­ed to the house­hold grid. Find out in this arti­cle how easy and time-sav­ing the instal­la­tion of the Solar­na­tive sys­tem is.

Is photovoltaics worth it

Those con­sid­er­ing pur­chas­ing a solar ener­gy sys­tem often ask them­selves whether the pur­chase and instal­la­tion costs are actu­al­ly worth it. You may find many dif­fer­ent answers on the sub­ject of “Is pho­to­voltaics worth it?” online, some of which con­tain con­tra­dic­to­ry or even mis­in­for­ma­tion and are some­times writ­ten from a sub­jec­tive point of view. Here,we will pro­vide you with sol­id facts, up-to-date infor­ma­tion and valu­able deci­­sion-mak­ing aids for the pur­chase of a pri­vate solar ener­gy sys­tem for your own home.

Photovoltaic subsidisation

More and more home­own­ers are look­ing to install solar pan­els on their roofs to gen­er­ate their own elec­tric­i­ty. This not only offers the oppor­tu­ni­ty to save con­sid­er­able costs, but also sig­nif­i­cant­ly improves the envi­ron­men­tal bal­ance. How­ev­er, when it comes to larg­er pho­to­volta­ic sys­tems, financ­ing is often a con­cern for many. Find out every­thing you need to know about sub­si­dis­ing pho­to­voltaics in this article.

Cost of solar system

Installing your own solar sys­tem on the roof is a promis­ing way to become inde­pen­dent of ener­gy sup­pli­ers and pro­duce your own ener­gy, espe­cial­ly in times of ris­ing elec­tric­i­ty prices. But which type of sys­tem is worth­while for your home? What costs should you expect? And what fac­tors influ­ence the price? In this arti­cle, we will answer these questions.

Register for your Balcony PV system

Dis­cov­er the world of bal­cony PV sys­tems — mini solar sys­tems that can be installed on bal­conies with­out any tech­ni­cal exper­tise. Gen­er­ate your own elec­tric­i­ty and ben­e­fit from the many advan­tages of gen­er­at­ing your own pow­er. But what rules do you need to observe? Do you need your landlord’s con­sent? How much pow­er is allowed to be gen­er­at­ed? We will pro­vide you with all the answers in this article.

Generate your own electricity

Gen­er­at­ing your own elec­tric­i­ty is becom­ing increas­ing­ly pop­u­lar. Ris­ing ener­gy costs and the high envi­ron­men­tal impact are prompt­ing more and more peo­ple to gen­er­ate their own elec­tric­i­ty. Curi­ous? Here you can find out how much elec­tric­i­ty you can gen­er­ate your­self, how you can pro­duce elec­tric­i­ty your­self and use it in your own house­hold and why a bal­cony PV sys­tem is par­tic­u­lar­ly suit­able for this.

Balcony PV system subsidy

If you want to live in a more cli­­mate-friend­­ly way, you can now do this with­out much effort — for exam­ple with a bal­cony PV sys­tem. This allows you to gen­er­ate solar pow­er your­self and even save on elec­tric­i­ty costs. You can find out which sub­si­dies for bal­cony solar sys­tems are avail­able in your fed­er­al state and to what extent state sub­si­dies for bal­cony PV sys­tems are pos­si­ble here.

Balcony PV system: Questions and answers about the balcony solar system

Are you con­sid­er­ing pur­chas­ing a PV sys­tem for bal­cony to be part of the ener­gy rev­o­lu­tion and save elec­tric­i­ty costs? Then you’ve come to the right place: We answer the most fre­quent­ly asked ques­tions and give you a com­pre­hen­sive insight into the top­ic of bal­cony PV system.

Interview eWorks

When Dominik Ashkar was in 2017 in the time of the foun­da­tion, it was not yet clear which path he would one day take with his com­pa­ny. Because the ini­tial idea of build­ing a net­work of garages for elec­tric vehi­cles turned into a new con­cept with­in a year.

Interview WAVELABS

In this inter­view with Dr. Torsten Bram­mer, CEO and Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of WAVELABS Solar Metrol­o­gy Sys­tems GmbH, an exem­plary career of an inter­na­tion­al­ly impor­tant com­pa­ny in the clean-tech indus­try will be told.