These interests are who is orchestrating the various campaigns to keep cars with internal combustion engines "alive", seed fear, uncertainty and doubt over heat pumps and generally try to sabotage the electrification of industry and household.
Public discussion and media commentar in Germany fail to make this distinction and hence almost all analysis we can read falls short of providing proper insight.
We need to distinguish clearly between car sellers and fuel sellers in order to understand some of the disorientingly stupid discourse around all of this better.
Both are trying to kill us, mind you, but they are still not the same forces, and they are no longer friends.