Yet VW and other German manufacturers made millions during the last few decades in China. Germany dropped the ball ..just admit it. When you go woke you go broke. Time get rid of the Green party and put AFD in charge of Germany !!
It's not only VW.. Mercedes and BMW are deeply dependent on China, in sales and production of components that were moved from Europe to China. The European industry is on its knees largely due to the big players in Europe who are putting pressure to move more production to China in search of lower prices. This is why they fear retaliation from the Chinese government.
When Tesla was 10% of VW/VAG, Tesla was making Supercharge network on 3 continents !!! During this time German car makers did what ??? Diesel gate !!! The refusal to make cheap, beautiful, quality electric cars like Tesla or Chinese is the problem of Germany !!! GREED ! GREEDY of German car makers ! is the problem !!!
At that time there were no charging infrastructure at all. Small EV is still 20kWh battery, fairly difficult to charge with single 230V outlet in reasonable time.
Exporting from China to Europe as a 'German' manufacturer....sad The EU saves German industry when the manufacturers prioritize short term profits over the long term German economy. The Chinese market for legacy auto will be zero in a few years, so why care today? Partner with Chinese tech, but build in the EU.
It exactly what broken Stellantis want to do with Leapmotor brand. Stellantis has nothing against becoming chinese slave unless it will be allowed to sell in Europe chinese electrocrap.
It's EU to blame. They imposed so many requirement on car equipment (in most cases equipment absolutely non essential for car to drive) that the prices skyrocketed.
@@MrSean03839 You got it and profit and growth will impress extinction levels to our 8 billion people. A different model other than contemporary capitalism may be needed. but I feel were not going to recoknise that! The all male directors/controlers on the panel are part of the problem! They havnt got a clue.
It's what Norway did and worked. Over 90% of all new sales are EV. Over 60% of all cars on the road are EV. That figure will be 100% in 15 years. All subsidised by oil. So there's no excuse.
How Ola graciously explained the ground reality in the talk should already be the eye opener to politicians. But the political rhetoric to have the shift to electric autos asap is going to cost German automotive industry - giving edge to Chinese cheap cars. I really hope the German politicians think of their people and home grown technology before the economy plumets to grounds.
First they need to resign to invent traps for the clients. Dieselgate destroyed VW diesel motors, gasoline engines were plagued with high oil consumption due to poorly engineered pistons.
I live in a flat. Where I live there are around 4 charging stations. There is no way I would buy an EV with this bad of an infrastructure. Millions of people are in the same boat as me but it rarely gets mentioned
Ultra profiteering mixed with lobbying from the fossifuel industry is reasonable for all this if the industry shifted the gears like the Chinese did you wold not have this happened to them.
A moderator in such a discussion should be able to correctly pronounce the name of any chinese politician involved in the political and economic debate. This was a poor performance. Senior moderation. I guess.
To VW and Mercedes: too many managers with too big salaries, all were sleeping happily for 30 years while other countries were working hard and developping..lets's say it simply and directly like germans like it: too much greed from the management and too much incompetency... the results would be ok if not for many thousands will now be fired, and the whole country economy geopardised.. BUT HELLO: AN ACCOUNTANT AS CEO OF MERCEDES !!!!! ARE YOU JOKING?
Elienna million thanks to highlight the topic of accounting, I would argue 50% of leaders in german companies are finance controllers Vp level/C level ...aka ..they have no clue how to manage business but only to control expenditure ...let's dont talk innovation....THAT is the issue
Where is a forward oriented EU Mobility-Konzept? Individual vs. public road/rail transport - short distance, long distance, commercial road traffic. Infrastructure investments open to all technological solutions! All of these are political/corporate decisions to be taken for a long term. These decisions will determine the future of the relevant producing industries. Relevant political communication is essential for customer acceptance of new sustainable technologies.
Consolidation in car manufacturing was due… and this process obviously just started. German cars are just no more bang for buck, and this is hard reality for many people.
Well Germany siding with Israel.. middle Eastern buys may be more reluctant to buy their cars.....but this topic they brought is very weird ...why would they talk about the conflict other than from economical side ....that is exactly why Germany will fall...it will fall because it doesn't address topics strategically .... in fact it doesn't work for its own people somehow
The problem is that there is no equal access in other markets as there isn't transparency. For that reason tariff's are right. Automotive may export more to China than import but thats not their plan going forward. Closed factories and more imports is their plan to protect investors. Even if its at the long term detriment of local economy.
It's very clear EV hype is ending with disaster both in engineering and commercial sense. Not to say about infrastructure that is a disaster on its own.
Talking down the whole move as a hype is the complete ignorance of whats going on in the biggest global car markets. EV is here to stay. Not only from a technical perspective.
@@ropi4524 Really? Seems number of those willing to put themselves into EV tornado voluntarly is shrinking. Those who managed to get out of the mess return to ICE.
Close down the whole car industry and start new with massive investment, the only ones to benifit form this dinosour industry are profits to shareholders.
Chinese cars are not cheap in Europe... They are even often more expensive than German Ones and often even have worse range and charging speed... And for people that say because of the tarrifs, no the prices are that high long before tariffs were even discussed. Chinese cars are cheap in China, in Australia and in Mexico.... But in Europe they try to milk the costumers.
They Chinese can choose either to pay high tariffs or sell at high price and you see the choice, even though EU politicians thought they're not expensive enough.
Consumers don't choose in a vaccum; public policies can drastically influence them. Two examples in the auto sector: the "dieselification" of Europe from the 90s until 2015 was caused by tax policies that heavily favoured diesel over petrol/hybrids (even against all scientific evidence that it would was not contributing to a reduction of CO2 emissions and was harmful to health). So not only VW that should be bladed for "dieselgate". The second more recent example is a adoption of EVs in large cities in China, heavily motivated by public funding of charging infrastructure and heavy discounts to the cost owning an EV over a ICE car.
My prediction is that conversion of oil cars to electric will be the biggest industry and they can occupy the dead car factories. Good EU investment and jobs that the present industry is not able employ.
China does not disturb us to do investments that make sense as well and to prevent ourselves to spoil money. We could stop producing waste and pollution earlier
Germany must work with Nio Battery Swapp. To save the German Car Industry. Battery Swapp is the Future. Always the newest Battery. Swapp in 3 minutes. Standard Battery for All EV Cars.
Maybe the market is actually signaling that the regulations have not come into effect fast enough. After all, if you made it illegal to sell combustion engines starting December 1, 2024 then in 202 5 the take-rate for electric vehicles would be 100% and the market would have spoken
Thank you for a very interesting dualogue. Hope to see the famous and German Autobahnen, again. There is nothing wrong with German cars, in my experience. Please retain "Made in Germany". Humbling to hear the constructive, matter-of-fact and inclusive discussion vis a vis Asia and the need for a transformation 💜🕊️🇩🇪
Well, I feel investors should be focusing on under-the-radar stocks, and considering the current rollercoaster nature of the stock market, Because 35% of my $270k portfolio comprises plummeting stocks that were once revered and I don't know where to go here out of devastation.
German cars were the golden standard in my day. Great engineered cars that would last. As time went on, it cheapened itself and with globalization, they moved plants to areas that concentrated on cheap and profit instead of what made the cars a must have to everyone. They cheap replicas of what they were. The companies are to worried about profit than profit.
@@huke911 It's too late. And India doesn't seem to have same resouces and energetic base China has. Only human resources are in far better shape than China.
EU should work to benefit european citizens and industry. Push for EV's does benefit chinese mostly. Are eu politicians naive, corrupt or both? At least blind when it comes to geopolitics
Brussels has created this problem to the Auto Industry when defined the technology to be adopted rather than simply defining the target which is develop a green technology which will produce zero CO2 emissions. It was up to the auto industry to define their road map to reach that goal which could have included options such as using hydrogen, synthetic fuels, etc.
Both synthetic fuels and hydrogen are allowed. EU is not defining the technology. Nothing is stopping automakers using both, well other than the fact they suck.
Blah blah blah. German manufactures need to start manufacturing old parts for their past cars. Nissan did this and it worked out great. The power grid cannot and will not support 30% of its country having electric cars.
You talk about China, invite a Chinese dude, he gets to speak once while others all have 2 to 3 rounds. Comes open question time and you push the Chinese dude to answer, but not the others. And that's already better than 99.9% of debates or talks or round tables on topics around China where Chinese are never invited.
How about Germany builds cars that are practical to used.. reasonable price, reliable, easy to maintain. Germans cars should be the toyota of europe. Obcourse the luxury cars are also continued.
Man German politics is in a bad way. You have a debate that has: - a biased Chinese industry representative participating. This by itself torpedoes any idea of objectivity. - an economy minister that basically lies openly insinuating that the subsidies of the Chinese are not already a known fact and instead is something open for discussion. - a trade commissioner (former) that goes on to insist eco-politics measures, decided on in a completely different global context, should still be the main topic and decision driver whithout any consideration on: war, the actual scope of the effects considering Western Europe is alone in enforcing this, immigration impact on economy and on the radicalization of the voters. This debate shows fear, it shows weakness and a lack of vision both political and industrial.
They can move to sell cars from china to India and later to Africa 😛 what is missing is demand and making India and Africa people to have money to buy cars. Maybe they should be autonomous or some Uber services 😛
Diesel gate followed closely by poor turbo engines resulted in customers turning away. Poor entry to EV market was a sign of despair. Stop whining about competition and GET TO WORK.
Germany closing nuclear power stations was the biggest mistake. I dont care about EVs, green energy or net zero, plus all my savings are in Bitcoin, banks will become like Kodak and Blockbuster.
Can you support the "biggest mistake" with some data? I do see a decline in fossile fuel consumption used for power generation, an increase im renewables and thus a continuation of falling prices for power. We have already reached the pre war price level of April 2021 on market level and June 2021 on consumer level. Were there any blackouts? And also: why are the energy companies not demanding nuclear power? Sounds weird, since they would be in favour the most, if nuclear would be so cost effective. Can you please elaborate on that from a cost perspective?
🥱 Blackrock took over bitcoin. So your bitcoins will continue to correlate with markets. Apart from bitcoin, I agree with you 100%. Closing nuclear plants was a bullet in the head for German economy. Greens killed Europe
Do you know? In the whole of Asia, including Central Asia, South Asia and India, no German car brand has entered the top 10 car sales rankings except China in the past decade. This is definitely not a commercial behavior that makes China an Asian oddity. I think this has given Europe and Germany too much confidence, just like people like you. China used to be proud of and distrusted Japan and South Korea, which led to the rise of German cars in China. Look at the whole of Asia, except for China, which European car has entered the top 10 sales in any Asian country? That is the world of Japan and South Korea. Who do you think Volkswagen relied on to surpass Toyota in sales in the past? Europe and the United States always say that China has taken away their car jobs, but last year China imported 13.5 billion euros of European cars and exported 16.3 billion euros to Europe. Chinese car exports to Europe accounted for 17% of total exports, and Chinese cars accounted for 14% of total European exports. Last year, German cars made in China accounted for 17.8% of Chinese sales, and China's total car sales were 26.12 million, or 4.64 million, and China basically did not make them in Europe, so it is impossible to calculate. Not to mention that the cars exported by Germany to China are all expensive luxury cars, while most of the cars exported by China are foreign brands such as Tesla. The bulk of China's auto exports go to Russia and other developing countries, not Europe, so tariffs don't mean much to Chinese cars. China has fed the German and European auto industries for more than 10 years, and now it has made some progress and imposed sanctions on China, which makes the Chinese people hate Germany and Europe even more than Japan and South Korea. In Japan and South Korea, the share of local cars is 80-95%, and the export amount of Japan and South Korea is almost the same as that of China. Japanese and Korean cars manufactured in Europe even rank first and second in European car sales. China will also do this. Even without the European market, we will beat Germany in all markets in the world.
It’s not about the the motor it’s about smart car. You can embrace old timers fine, I like vintage cars like inline 6 BMWs with s stick shifter (very vintage tech) for recreation, but then you are dumped by the rest for a light year that’s the issue.
Automotives or not, what is modt important for the Europeans is the continued obsession with their skins and with their favourite bedtime stories by Artur de Gobineau
VW is too invested in China. Now that China is moving to its own EV makers, VW and other foreign makers are suffering.
Yet VW and other German manufacturers made millions during the last few decades in China. Germany dropped the ball ..just admit it. When you go woke you go broke. Time get rid of the Green party and put AFD in charge of Germany !!
It's not only VW.. Mercedes and BMW are deeply dependent on China, in sales and production of components that were moved from Europe to China. The European industry is on its knees largely due to the big players in Europe who are putting pressure to move more production to China in search of lower prices. This is why they fear retaliation from the Chinese government.
When Tesla was 10% of VW/VAG, Tesla was making Supercharge network on 3 continents !!!
During this time German car makers did what ??? Diesel gate !!!
The refusal to make cheap, beautiful, quality electric cars like Tesla or Chinese is the problem of Germany !!!
GREED ! GREEDY of German car makers ! is the problem !!!
Herbert Diess tried and they sabotaged his I.D vision then threw him out. VW drunk on DPF the lot of em.
At that time there were no charging infrastructure at all. Small EV is still 20kWh battery, fairly difficult to charge with single 230V outlet
in reasonable time.
Teslas are not about quality or availability.
@@КонстантинПономаренко-я7я Tesla Model Y is the best selling car in Europe
@@righteousmammon9011 yes, more than that, 2 years in a row
BYD itself has just broken sale record 400K car for the period september.
Exporting from China to Europe as a 'German' manufacturer....sad
The EU saves German industry when the manufacturers prioritize short term profits over the long term German economy.
The Chinese market for legacy auto will be zero in a few years, so why care today?
Partner with Chinese tech, but build in the EU.
MB is largely owned by Chinese, in few years it will be called Gilee Mercedes. You need some update.
It exactly what broken Stellantis want to do with Leapmotor brand. Stellantis has nothing against becoming chinese slave unless it will be allowed to sell in Europe chinese electrocrap.
Most of the weird decisions we make regarding China are likely a result of US political pressure.
@@liang8255 Don't work for MB. Enlighten me....
All cars are far too expensive.
It's EU to blame. They imposed so many requirement on car equipment (in most cases equipment absolutely non essential for car to drive) that the prices skyrocketed.
Also take all the subsidies for oil and put them into the EV car industry.
But the oil corporations need help, they don't make enough money. LoL!
@@MrSean03839 You got it and profit and growth will impress extinction levels to our 8 billion people. A different model other than contemporary capitalism may be needed. but I feel were not going to recoknise that! The all male directors/controlers on the panel are part of the problem! They havnt got a clue.
It's what Norway did and worked. Over 90% of all new sales are EV. Over 60% of all cars on the road are EV. That figure will be 100% in 15 years. All subsidised by oil. So there's no excuse.
@@paudieb
Norway is very specific example that can't be repeated elsewhere. Norway has at the same access to oil and significant hydropower.
China has the largest fossile fuel subsidies, or over $270+B/year. Compare that to the US's $3B (in 2022 according to the IMF).
Thank you - the debate was well-paced and very enlightening.
How Ola graciously explained the ground reality in the talk should already be the eye opener to politicians. But the political rhetoric to have the shift to electric autos asap is going to cost German automotive industry - giving edge to Chinese cheap cars. I really hope the German politicians think of their people and home grown technology before the economy plumets to grounds.
German car makers need to improve the car reliability first. Not many wanted to buy unreliable cars.😂
First they need to resign to invent traps for the clients. Dieselgate destroyed VW diesel motors, gasoline engines were plagued with high oil consumption due to poorly engineered pistons.
Europe was laughing at Trump for his policies, now look at what’s happening 😂
we're still laughing 😂..and Trump doesn't have any policies 😅
His trade war with China cost the u.s. taxpayer
@@stephengleve9815 and yet you’re doing exactly what he said - getting off Russian oil and re-militarizing
I live in a flat. Where I live there are around 4 charging stations. There is no way I would buy an EV with this bad of an infrastructure. Millions of people are in the same boat as me but it rarely gets mentioned
Great conversation IMO German OEMs have been caught napping and China and Tesla have innovated faster.
Good-bye NOKIAs! 3:)
Best comment!!!!
its very rich for a european to talk about subsidies when they are Subsidizes-R-Us of the world.
thank you for this video.. DW.. really informative.
GerRuSSia Today in english.
All Europe should focus on electricity mobility and electric future in heating system and other areas. Stop NoX
Very interesting meeting! Thank you!
Ola Kallenius, very good industrial perspective
German auto industry began to lose everything causing by heavy investment in China.
Our climate change forcasts are not certain enough to destroy our current industries and societies as a " solution".
Ultra profiteering mixed with lobbying from the fossifuel industry is reasonable for all this if the industry shifted the gears like the Chinese did you wold not have this happened to them.
Lol oh well over a hundred year old companies operating like it’s the 1990’s “move fast and break things” it’s a very common saying
A moderator in such a discussion should be able to correctly pronounce the name of any chinese politician involved in the political and economic debate. This was a poor performance. Senior moderation. I guess.
Vassal state 🇩🇪GERMANY is ruined itself 😅😅
To VW and Mercedes: too many managers with too big salaries, all were sleeping happily for 30 years while other countries were working hard and developping..lets's say it simply and directly like germans like it: too much greed from the management and too much incompetency... the results would be ok if not for many thousands will now be fired, and the whole country economy geopardised.. BUT HELLO: AN ACCOUNTANT AS CEO OF MERCEDES !!!!! ARE YOU JOKING?
Elienna million thanks to highlight the topic of accounting, I would argue 50% of leaders in german companies are finance controllers Vp level/C level ...aka ..they have no clue how to manage business but only to control expenditure ...let's dont talk innovation....THAT is the issue
Where is a forward oriented EU Mobility-Konzept? Individual vs. public road/rail transport - short distance, long distance, commercial road traffic. Infrastructure investments open to all technological solutions! All of these are political/corporate decisions to be taken for a long term. These decisions will determine the future of the relevant producing industries. Relevant political communication is essential for customer acceptance of new sustainable technologies.
Consolidation in car manufacturing was due… and this process obviously just started. German cars are just no more bang for buck, and this is hard reality for many people.
Very nice debate ! Transition to EV won’t be so smooth, are electricity generation and distribution companies geared up for de-carbonisation ?
What is the Middle eastern conflict got to do with the automotive industry?
Well Germany siding with Israel.. middle Eastern buys may be more reluctant to buy their cars.....but this topic they brought is very weird ...why would they talk about the conflict other than from economical side ....that is exactly why Germany will fall...it will fall because it doesn't address topics strategically .... in fact it doesn't work for its own people somehow
The problem is that there is no equal access in other markets as there isn't transparency. For that reason tariff's are right. Automotive may export more to China than import but thats not their plan going forward. Closed factories and more imports is their plan to protect investors. Even if its at the long term detriment of local economy.
It's very clear EV hype is ending with disaster both in engineering and commercial sense. Not to say about infrastructure that is a disaster on its own.
Wish German car makers can hear you well.
Talking down the whole move as a hype is the complete ignorance of whats going on in the biggest global car markets. EV is here to stay. Not only from a technical perspective.
@@ropi4524
Really? Seems number of those willing to put themselves into EV tornado voluntarly is shrinking. Those who managed to get out of the mess return to ICE.
Please try to educate yourself on the both the technology and commerial aspect, your´re clearly lacking in both.
@@michalfaraday8135 sleep well!
Close down the whole car industry and start new with massive investment, the only ones to benifit form this dinosour industry are profits to shareholders.
This won't work. The car will always have four wheels. Such proposals means killing motorization entirely.
Tgreat news and debate channel, but the image is a bit fuzzy, even on 1080p
Chinese cars are not cheap in Europe... They are even often more expensive than German Ones and often even have worse range and charging speed... And for people that say because of the tarrifs, no the prices are that high long before tariffs were even discussed. Chinese cars are cheap in China, in Australia and in Mexico.... But in Europe they try to milk the costumers.
当你们举起关税的工具，高价电车不就是是欧洲人应得的吗？
They Chinese can choose either to pay high tariffs or sell at high price and you see the choice, even though EU politicians thought they're not expensive enough.
Consumers don't choose in a vaccum; public policies can drastically influence them. Two examples in the auto sector: the "dieselification" of Europe from the 90s until 2015 was caused by tax policies that heavily favoured diesel over petrol/hybrids (even against all scientific evidence that it would was not contributing to a reduction of CO2 emissions and was harmful to health). So not only VW that should be bladed for "dieselgate".
The second more recent example is a adoption of EVs in large cities in China, heavily motivated by public funding of charging infrastructure and heavy discounts to the cost owning an EV over a ICE car.
My prediction is that conversion of oil cars to electric will be the biggest industry and they can occupy the dead car factories. Good EU investment and jobs that the present industry is not able employ.
China does not disturb us to do investments that make sense as well and to prevent ourselves to spoil money. We could stop producing waste and pollution earlier
Stopped watching when Israel was brought in to the conversation.
Germany must work with Nio Battery Swapp. To save the German Car Industry. Battery Swapp is the Future. Always the newest Battery. Swapp in 3 minutes. Standard Battery for All EV Cars.
Germans are smart and competitive. Nobody mentions that high gas price is another major factor for booming of EVs.
Mercedes and the other European manufacturers could try building cars that consumers want and are prepared to buy..!
Maybe the market is actually signaling that the regulations have not come into effect fast enough. After all, if you made it illegal to sell combustion engines starting December 1, 2024 then in 202 5 the take-rate for electric vehicles would be 100% and the market would have spoken
Thank you for a very interesting dualogue.
Hope to see the famous and German Autobahnen, again.
There is nothing wrong with German cars, in my experience. Please retain "Made in Germany".
Humbling to hear the constructive, matter-of-fact and inclusive discussion vis a vis Asia and the need for a transformation 💜🕊️🇩🇪
Well, I feel investors should be focusing on under-the-radar stocks, and considering the current rollercoaster nature of the stock market, Because 35% of my $270k portfolio comprises plummeting stocks that were once revered and I don't know where to go here out of devastation.
The day a car manufacturer produces a €25,000 vehicle with a 1,000 km battery range, all petrol cars will be obsolete.
obsolete*
German cars were the golden standard in my day. Great engineered cars that would last. As time went on, it cheapened itself and with globalization, they moved plants to areas that concentrated on cheap and profit instead of what made the cars a must have to everyone. They cheap replicas of what they were. The companies are to worried about profit than profit.
Germany has done a lot for China in making it a global manufacturing hub.
Why not make India a global hub???
@@huke911
It's too late. And India doesn't seem to have same resouces and energetic base China has. Only human resources are in far better shape than China.
Get out of the EV industry or go in the hole, your choice.
EV at current development stage is same stupidity as steam car. Yes under some circumstances it will drive. But in 90% cases it will suck.
Going out means to die as a company.
EU should work to benefit european citizens and industry. Push for EV's does benefit chinese mostly. Are eu politicians naive, corrupt or both? At least blind when it comes to geopolitics
china ev big threat to eu market ....100% tariff is the answer
Brussels has created this problem to the Auto Industry when defined the technology to be adopted rather than simply defining the target which is develop a green technology which will produce zero CO2 emissions. It was up to the auto industry to define their road map to reach that goal which could have included options such as using hydrogen, synthetic fuels, etc.
Both synthetic fuels and hydrogen are allowed. EU is not defining the technology. Nothing is stopping automakers using both, well other than the fact they suck.
CEO is Mercedes Benz speaks like a politician. 😅
At a crossroads? No it it is sliding from top hill to bottom of it
Sounds like Germany will give the win to the China corner.........this round. Maybe in the years ahead Germany will win a round.
Blah blah blah. German manufactures need to start manufacturing old parts for their past cars. Nissan did this and it worked out great. The power grid cannot and will not support 30% of its country having electric cars.
You talk about China, invite a Chinese dude, he gets to speak once while others all have 2 to 3 rounds. Comes open question time and you push the Chinese dude to answer, but not the others.
And that's already better than 99.9% of debates or talks or round tables on topics around China where Chinese are never invited.
Tariff is a sales tax!
How about Germany builds cars that are practical to used.. reasonable price, reliable, easy to maintain. Germans cars should be the toyota of europe. Obcourse the luxury cars are also continued.
Man German politics is in a bad way.
You have a debate that has:
- a biased Chinese industry representative participating. This by itself torpedoes any idea of objectivity.
- an economy minister that basically lies openly insinuating that the subsidies of the Chinese are not already a known fact and instead is something open for discussion.
- a trade commissioner (former) that goes on to insist eco-politics measures, decided on in a completely different global context, should still be the main topic and decision driver whithout any consideration on: war, the actual scope of the effects considering Western Europe is alone in enforcing this, immigration impact on economy and on the radicalization of the voters.
This debate shows fear, it shows weakness and a lack of vision both political and industrial.
They can move to sell cars from china to India and later to Africa 😛 what is missing is demand and making India and Africa people to have money to buy cars. Maybe they should be autonomous or some Uber services 😛
European mentality. Free trade for me and tariffs for others. The world has changed, it is time to think as equals not chosen or superior race :D
Diesel gate followed closely by poor turbo engines resulted in customers turning away. Poor entry to EV market was a sign of despair. Stop whining about competition and GET TO WORK.
Germany closing nuclear power stations was the biggest mistake.
I dont care about EVs, green energy or net zero, plus all my savings are in Bitcoin, banks will become like Kodak and Blockbuster.
Can you support the "biggest mistake" with some data? I do see a decline in fossile fuel consumption used for power generation, an increase im renewables and thus a continuation of falling prices for power. We have already reached the pre war price level of April 2021 on market level and June 2021 on consumer level. Were there any blackouts? And also: why are the energy companies not demanding nuclear power? Sounds weird, since they would be in favour the most, if nuclear would be so cost effective. Can you please elaborate on that from a cost perspective?
🥱 Blackrock took over bitcoin. So your bitcoins will continue to correlate with markets. Apart from bitcoin, I agree with you 100%. Closing nuclear plants was a bullet in the head for German economy. Greens killed Europe
@@headofmyself5663 France is increasing nuclear energy, if they can do it so Germany.
@@AEgonCholakian Italy dropped nuclear in the 90s. If they can do that so can Germany. What is your argument here?
@@headofmyself5663 the argument is you lost cheap energy from Russia.
I wonder why?
Very hard to understand Mr habeck in comparison to the Mercedes ceo. Habecks english is bad and confusing
get rid of unionized, union-run companies ..... we are not obligated to pay for your luxurious living
ban all cars
blablabla don’t try to make politics PLEASE 🙏🏼
Who are you adressing?
You have the option of not watching it.
@@davidhumphreys9938
He has the right to demand serious exchange not a story-telling.
unions are to blame
Do you know? In the whole of Asia, including Central Asia, South Asia and India, no German car brand has entered the top 10 car sales rankings except China in the past decade. This is definitely not a commercial behavior that makes China an Asian oddity. I think this has given Europe and Germany too much confidence, just like people like you. China used to be proud of and distrusted Japan and South Korea, which led to the rise of German cars in China. Look at the whole of Asia, except for China, which European car has entered the top 10 sales in any Asian country? That is the world of Japan and South Korea. Who do you think Volkswagen relied on to surpass Toyota in sales in the past? Europe and the United States always say that China has taken away their car jobs, but last year China imported 13.5 billion euros of European cars and exported 16.3 billion euros to Europe. Chinese car exports to Europe accounted for 17% of total exports, and Chinese cars accounted for 14% of total European exports. Last year, German cars made in China accounted for 17.8% of Chinese sales, and China's total car sales were 26.12 million, or 4.64 million, and China basically did not make them in Europe, so it is impossible to calculate. Not to mention that the cars exported by Germany to China are all expensive luxury cars, while most of the cars exported by China are foreign brands such as Tesla. The bulk of China's auto exports go to Russia and other developing countries, not Europe, so tariffs don't mean much to Chinese cars. China has fed the German and European auto industries for more than 10 years, and now it has made some progress and imposed sanctions on China, which makes the Chinese people hate Germany and Europe even more than Japan and South Korea. In Japan and South Korea, the share of local cars is 80-95%, and the export amount of Japan and South Korea is almost the same as that of China. Japanese and Korean cars manufactured in Europe even rank first and second in European car sales. China will also do this. Even without the European market, we will beat Germany in all markets in the world.
Survivor or the fittest
Habeck did not in fact come across as completely dumb as most of his pronouncements have made him seem!
Please buy Robert some english lessons.
Good bye, Nokia , koda and Dinosaurs.
Biggest snowballsystem in the world ends!
Bias toward Israel, in intro,=> seek forward a bit, downvote, move on.
Europe is just about silly regulationn these days. There isnt much coming out of Europe that the world want.
The solution is tax on car weight and allowing car manufacturers to build simple and light cars with ICE again.
at A crossroads! Really it is an English international channel? It sucks
It's ok. We can understand. English is not their first language. Even you would make grammar errors in German.
English is the business language
Germany choose war and NATO expansion instead of prosperity 😇
get rid of EV's around the world!!
It’s not about the the motor it’s about smart car. You can embrace old timers fine, I like vintage cars like inline 6 BMWs with s stick shifter (very vintage tech) for recreation, but then you are dumped by the rest for a light year that’s the issue.
EVs are virus that does far too much harm. And solves very little problems while creating a huge heap of others.
But someone does not want the world to return to normality.
Automotives or not, what is modt important for the Europeans is the continued obsession with their skins and with their favourite bedtime stories by Artur de Gobineau