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Diesel gate has nothing to do with pure profit, it has to do with Germany keeping its market shares and the occupational figures (the stability I was talking ab
by asjw 6y ago
Diesel gate has nothing to do with pure profit, it has to do with Germany keeping its market shares and the occupational figures (the stability I was talking about)
Only 2% of the cars were sold in US
Of course the fact that US was leading the production of luxury electric cars has to do with the revelation being made public in 2013 while politicians and regulators have known for years
They were (illegally) accumulating money to invest in electric car manufacturing without having to "disrupt" the industry which has political consequences in Europe, where job places are highly unionised
I'm not saying they were right I'm saying that they were keeping the stability at any cost, they just sacrificed some upper manager after the scandal, and in fact 6 years later the numbers say that in the electric car market
"Volkswagen leads all carmakers with over 1.4 million sales. Renault-Nissan and China's Geely have also overtaken Tesla."