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Just once I would like to see actual numbers in one of those bullshit articles.
Last month we had “400% increased sales of Chinese EVs” when in reality that increase was from next to nothing to barely above 1% marketshare (all combined that is…) all while several European EVs with actual marketshare saw comparable growth.
Now we have “Europe folding in the face China’s EV dominance”. Still while European EVs actually dominate the European market and the EU is not doing anything but imposing tariffs -fine tuned per producer even- to fit real Chinese subsidies.
(PS: And I don’t even want to mention the idiocy of pretending that hybrids are an actual thing for future car production and not just a fever dream out of the minds of anti-EV and pro-fossil fuel lobbyists trying to keep their failing business model on life support for a few more years…)
I feel somehow this community (or the instance?) is sponsored by China, and OP is the poster in chief.
That’s hilarious coming from the chief sockpuppet account around that is Scotty/Hotznplotzn/randomname/Sepia/tardigrade/etc.
No, Europe is starting to realize that they should get off a dead horse. The car industry is not the vital industry it once was with the demographic changes and increasing lack of export markets.
In some parts the transition will be painful of course, but that usually happens when you artificially try to keep a nearly dead horse alive for too long.
The Volkswagen Group had a global decline of 0.5% compared to 2024. It is also worth noting that the US was a worse market then China for them. Mercedes-Benz is getting slaughter though, but that is to be expected, when you fail the EV transition. Stellantis is a nightmare anyway. Renault Group is actually doing pretty well, but is focused on the European market already. BMW also saw increased sales last year and they are doing pretty well with EVs.
So the European car industry has its issues, but it is probably going to survive. However EVs have less parts then ICE cars, so jobs will be cut.
The car industry has strong lobbyists and a lot of people unfortunately like cars, though. If we phase it out, at the very least we should nudge European car makers and kick out US ones.
Some car companies are starting to make bicycles instead, so I think they’re also shifting to diversify.
This user is making a high volume of pro-Chinese and anti-European posts.
I guess they balance out the 4 or 5 users that are making a high volume of anti-china posts?
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In this regard, some clients (like voyager) let you tag users, so you will notice when you see the same users over and over again.
This guy is right.
