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Its not only the automotive lobby to be fair. Lobbies also moved Germany out of solar panel production, batteries and lately heat pumps. So yeah, the legacy i
by theK 7mo ago
Its not only the automotive lobby to be fair.
Lobbies also moved Germany out of solar panel production, batteries and lately heat pumps.
So yeah, the legacy industry lobbies are the problem but not exclusively the automaker ones.
- danmaz74 7mo ago> Lobbies also moved Germany out of solar panel production, batteries Was it lobbies, or costs which aren't competitive with China?
- theK 7mo agoAfaik, It was lobbies and conservative goverents that chose to put the question up to the "free market", completely disregarding the fact that the competing geographies where heavily subsidizing those industries.
- AnonymousPlanet 7mo agoThis is a very well researched essay regarding the solar panel industry in China and Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoCoPmtNRJo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoCoPmtNRJo I really recommend watching / reading sober assessments like this. This is the strategic decision that was the last nail in the coffin for European battery cell manufacturing: https://www.reuters.com/article/business/bosch-shuns-battery-cell-production-in-blow-to-europe-idUSKCN1GC2DY https://www.reuters.com/article/business/bosch-shuns-battery... It is a rational assessment of realities when it comes to high end production. Not every industrial environment can produce every kind of industry. At some point the costs are too high to overcome the difference.