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Should have invested into charging infrastructure, bike lanes or street infrastructure all together. Last time the government threw all that money at the car i
by aluhut 10y ago
Should have invested into charging infrastructure, bike lanes or street infrastructure all together.
Last time the government threw all that money at the car industry people ended up selling their good cars and getting cars who faked their emission measurements. So I'm pretty skeptical here...
- jfoutz 10y agoI can't quite tell if you phrased that poorly, or didn't read the article.
- aluhut 10y agoAre you talking about those 300m? They are a "waterdrop on a hot stone" as we say here.
- adrianN 10y agoExactly. This way it's an obvious subsidy to our most important industry with dubious benefits. That money could be spent a lot better if the goal is to reduce CO2 emissions by traffic.
- tirant 10y agoExactly. I was terribly disappointed at the poor bike infrastructure I saw in Germany two weeks ago when I visited Munchen and Nuremberg. Those cities would be perfect for bikes, but instead they are totally dominated by ICE vehicles. It is very sad.
- aluhut 10y agoYou are right Munich is terrible. I brought my bike there once when I was working in our Munich office because I've heard the traffic is horrible. I was never so stressed out driving a bike through a city before. Collegue commented on this with: "what did you expect in BMW-City?". Guess you really have to love your BMW really much to add an extra hour just to get to work. Frankfurt where I live is not as bad, they've done a lot in the last years compared to cities like Munich but it's also not representative from what I experienced and hear from the community.
- Gibbon1 10y agoI wonder though, I've seen comments off and on that Germany's windmills producing more power than demand late at night. You could consider each electric car as grid connected battery. I get the feeling Germany's leaders have a long standing dislike of oil imports. Which causes them to want to look the other way when it comes to diesels. Flip side replacing 30 million oil fueled cars with 30 million electric cars + 50,000 Windmills is also attractive.