• stoicEuropean@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    I mean this was the inevitable outcome of clinging to combustion motors and leaving the EV market to the Chinese.

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      2 days ago

      How do they conclude this is about EVs and not all the other EVERYTHING China makes?

      Besides, many Chinese brand EVs are actually assembling in the EU.

    • Etnaphele@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I would point more to the disruptive nature of EVs and the stale stance of overlobbied/-lobbying western car manufacturers. Tesla shows that you can sell a boatload of EVs without solely relying on China manufacturing. The western car politics are plainly anti-consumer and China paved their way to be the leader in a sector that doesn’t exist anywhere else.

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        3 days ago

        EVs also act as a kind of catalyst to electrification. Home solar becomes really interesting with EVs and leads to more heat pump use, too.

        Also, short- and medium distance cargo transport are becoming electric, and I hope agriculture follows, too, which would be huge.

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          also act as a kind of catalyst to electrification. Home solar becomes really interesting with EVs and leads to more heat pump use, too.

          indeed, we went solar and heatpump in '24, then ev in '25. Had ebikes for some time

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            2 days ago

            The world is electrifying while US and EU industry decided to ignore it, then the US war gave everyone the final push to buy panels and cars. Those people are never going back to oil.

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          Europe is actively rowing against an inavoidable - because so much better there isn’t even a contest - change just because manufacturers slept and gorged on a couple of decades of thick profits abroad and taxpayer funded lifelines when they shamefully struggled. The US is broadly worse, while also having some promising companies like Tesla and maybe Rivian that could really make a difference

  • verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr
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    3 days ago

    I mean, this was the inevitablenoutcome of having a wage thieving class rule a region. In China, wages are lower so more can be stolen from Chinese workers.

    Look at record employment in India also while most multi-national European firms fire hundreds of thousands domestically. CEOs need the Mussolini spa treatment.