• Destide@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    Sounds like German automotive is still not learning that they’ll be irrelevant if they keep kicking the can down the road. Do it, China isn’t going to wait.

    • Melchior@feddit.org
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      23 hours ago

      As a German I welcome that. It finally kills the pro car lobby in Germany and we get the cities we actually should have in the first place.

    • the_wise_wolf@feddit.org
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      1 day ago

      Oh, they did learn their lesson. They can do whatever they want, they will always be saved by the government.

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      21 hours ago

      German automotive is learning, and excelling. Porsche and Mercedes have huge electric programs, and outshine everyone else in the west. Especially at self-driving, they have the only full self driving cars, which Tesla cannot replicate.

      So, they’re lying. Common sense check? China’s cars are better than Germany’s. Yeah, that’s bullshit.

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        20 hours ago

        Doesn’t matter if you have to pay 100.000 Euros for such a car and you can get a china one for 35.000… people vote with their wallet and fact is, not many have that much money laying around

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          there’s now plenty of European EVs around the €20 000 mark that are good enough, same as the Chinese. There’s going to be plenty of Chinese cars in Europe, same as Japanese or Korean, but this notion peddled by some people that the European brands are going to disappear is just moronic.