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So I guess the big 3 Germans are over the "they laugh at you" phase and now they're in full "they fight you" mode. I think as recent as one year ago there stil
by paganel 7y ago
So I guess the big 3 Germans are over the "they laugh at you" phase and now they're in full "they fight you" mode.
I think as recent as one year ago there still were German car executives that were touting their hard-won experience of making cars for 50+ years, not realizing that EVs are mostly batteries + accompanying software that happens to have some wheels attached . Making excellent inline-six engines or quite crazy V10 diesel engines has almost no connection to all that.
- pete762 7y agoThe use cases for long lasting and energy dense batteries are much more diversified than just cars.
- paganel 7y agoThe "coincidence" between VW announcing that they'll go "all in" when it comes to EVs and this EU announcement is too big, of course this is meant to help the German (and partly the French) car manufacturers. When your industrial output suffers the biggest blow since 2009 [1] you have to be seen doing something (as a politician, I mean) in order not to let the bad people from AfD get a hold on the reins of power. [1] https://www.ft.com/content/a1a14220-1801-11ea-9ee4-11f260415385 https://www.ft.com/content/a1a14220-1801-11ea-9ee4-11f260415...