In an interview, the Germany chancellor said he believes the ban is 'wrong', as Germany's auto giants struggle to stay competitive against Chinese electric carmakers.
  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    261·
    4 小时前

    Sounds like German automotive is still not learning that they’ll be irrelevant if they keep kicking the can down the road. Do it, China isn’t going to wait.

    • Melchior@feddit.orgEnglish
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      1 小时前

      As a German I welcome that. It finally kills the pro car lobby in Germany and we get the cities we actually should have in the first place.

    • the_wise_wolf@feddit.orgEnglish
      111·
      3 小时前

      Oh, they did learn their lesson. They can do whatever they want, they will always be saved by the government.

    • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
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      3 小时前

      Hmm, I wonder if there’s a coordinated effort by lobbies to have this kind of plans scrapped. Knowing the car and oil industry, probably.

      I like to think that finally they realized that even this, like most of the green target approved with the past years to please the Green Party, is nice in theory but completely impracticable in the timeframe they set. And the problem are not the car manufacturers, but all the infrastructure you need to set up even before starting to phase out ICE cars.

      But even if somehow (in the form of “somehow Palpatine return”) you would be able to convert all the car production infrastructure, which means to convert a lot more industries that the car manufacturers, you have the problem to set up all the support infrastructure for the EV cars, like a lot more public charger (ideally one for every gas station), how to solve the problem to install charger in places like historical inner center of cities, in condos which have not the space to install them and things like this.

      Not to mention the need to produce a lot more electricity and upgrade the grid so that it can transport a lot more energy also to every little small village in the nation (big cities have public transports, but most of the people do not live in big cities)

      So yes, switch to EV cars is a nice idea, but to set a deadline to produce ICE car without starting to plan how to make the transition is stupid.

  • gressen@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 小时前

    EU says Germany should scrap Merz’s blatant support for Oil and Gas industry.

    • Melchior@feddit.orgEnglish
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      1 小时前

      We know it is the car industry, since there was a leak, which showed Merz party having their position directly edited by one of their lobbying organizations.

      Germany is intressting in that basically all the oil assets are foreign owned. For gas the big lobbying group are the utilities.

      • kossa@feddit.orgEnglish
        37·
        5 小时前

        Not even that. It is a ban of any engine that produces carbon dioxide emissions. So combustion engines are fine as long as the fuel source is carbon neutral.

        Turns out e-fuels are economically unviable? Well, make them viable if you love combustion engines so much. It’s also not a horse-propelled-engine ban, the consumer just does not want horses ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. The allmighty invisible hand of the free market has spoken!

  • Lucy :3@feddit.orgEnglish
    42·
    5 小时前

    Please literally replace any instance of “German’s Merz” with “Coal, Gas & Car lobby”

  • Thoralf Will@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    20·
    5 小时前

    He is right. We should scrap the 2035 target and move it to 2030 instead.

    Yes, I know that thisnis not wahrnehmen meant. Merz is the slightly better educated and mannered German version of Trump and behaves accordingly.

  • Matengor@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    5 小时前

    No paywall: https://archive.is/SUJqL

    “We made the wrong decision, and we will correct it,” said the German chancellor at a conference of his SME association in Cologne. He would “put a spoke in Brussels’ wheel.”

    It’s insane how they fetishize fossiles.