A headline from a German newspaper this week suggests that Mercedes, the future car brand of Daimler once the group has been split into two, could head towards ending the manufacture of petrol and diesel vehicles far earlier than the group has so far let on. No shit Sherlock. All of Daimler’s rhetoric so far has failed to show the real reasons for the split into two businesses, Daimler truck and Mercedes cars, but from the outside it looks like a clear case of rampaging uncertainty among management. And we don’t blame them. It is one thing heralding a start-up that has a few measly $ billions into a single direction of BEVs, but quite another to take a 94…