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With headlines like these I sometimes wonder if it's just a PR piece to make nation X seem progressive (if you think of a nation as a brand). Reality is that G
by dolguldur 10y ago
With headlines like these I sometimes wonder if it's just a PR piece to make nation X seem progressive (if you think of a nation as a brand).
Reality is that Germany is very conservative and the car industry is too strong in influencing politics to follow their interests.
This works particularily well because the policy-makers are very worried about unemployment - so much that they'd rather risk sacrificing our children's future.
There was a panel with Elon Musk and the German minister of economics, where the minister said something along the line of: We can't allow jobs to be lost, even if it means we're going to have to continue ruining our environment. (!)
So no, unfortunately nothing will happen in Germany, a country where subsidies for (partially) electric vehicles are available only since this year and are limited to sales prices below €60k, conveniently excluding the Model S.
- 21 10y agoModel S is a luxury product. What if Bugatti makes a $1 mil electric car, should the government subsidize that, only because it's electric?
- denzil_correa 10y agoTrue. How was the 60,000 number reached?
- germanier 10y agoI don't think the calculation has been made public but obviously that number was derived through a political process in the government. It is rumored that it was meant to be 40k in the first place, excluding almost all models. Note that the 60k also excludes some German models such as the BMW i8 which would otherwise be eligible.
- denzil_correa 10y agoIt is interesting how 60,000 excludes ONLY Tesla but excludes only some models from other companies. It's very difficult to not make the obvious conclusion on how that number was reached.