Merz pensa seriamente che *rallentare* la transizione ai veicoli elettrici aiuterà l’UE a competere con la Cina?

He doesn’t. The aim isn’t to compete with China it’s to protect European industry from China. 

Do you seriously in 2025 think EV cars are actually good for the enviorment? Especially with EU so keen on shutting down nuclear plants which are the best sources of energy. Not to mention the slave mining operations for lithium and other rare metals, besides EVs arent sustainable because the battery wears out in 5-10 years making the second hand value and usability plumit.

It’s more like the forced EV transition by 2035 was unfeasible to begin with, and it risked tanking the automobile industry with economic repercussions 

EVs are nowhere near competitive right now so you’re kind of gambling that they will be better than traditional vehicles in 2035 which is far from a guarantee

Right now hybrids are probably the best option, EVs are still stuck with several issues: high costs, heavy batteries, long charge times, not good for long travels…

Expecting to convert the entire industry in 10 years and that everyone will want EVs, while also dealing with public backlash is honestly not a good thing 

Don’t get me wrong, I believe EVs will be the norm eventually but it’s still gonna take time

A sentence that starts with “Does Merz seriously think” is inherently wrong. No, he does not seriously think

The issue isn’t ‘slowing EVs’, it’s pretending EVs alone make Europe competitive. China wins on scale, state subsidies, and control of raw materials not because Brussels bans ICE faster. Competitiveness comes from tech-neutral policy, domestic industry, affordable energy, and manufacturing in Europe. Policy isn’t innovation.

You don’t understand.

Because the EU forced the auto industry to invest into electric they had invested less in ICE so they became less competitive. That’s why China was able to instead invest massively into ICE cars and completely overtake the German companies who squandered their resources on EV research.

Oh wait. That’s not what happened at all. China didn’t focus on ICE and instead flooded the markets with superior electric cars the very thing that the EU program was supposed to boost.

I’m gonna be honest this caricature sucks ass. Regardless of the message behind it.

I’m gonna take the bait, and go with the contrarian view. Banning combustion engines was not gonna do anything to help compete with China.

European maufacturers should build the best possible products for their customers (EU and worldwide). EVs need to win on their merits, not because of no competition.

If the market dictates that EVs are the way forward, then that’s what manufacturers will end up focusing on anyway.

Regardless, it’s no bueno for Europe to build the best EV cars in the world while outsourcing 100% of the electronics to China… Who will keep stealing our stuff, and we get to be even more dependent on them. Entire supply chains need to be brought back to Europe in order to actually compete with China, and that takes decades to pull off.

No, but the arm of the German car lobby that has its arm up his ass and talks through him does….

There is no need for ICE ban, because in ten years 90+% new cars will be BEV anyway. Most rest 10% will be hybrids. 1% pure ICE is just so small, no need to ban them. What we need is supporting entire supply chain made in Europe.

I have an ev and i love it but i also realise that the ev transition is not feasible if you don’t have access to a home charger because it’s a burden (i’m talking for daily use), there are some that make it work, now, but they can only make it work because there aren’t as many evs out there. I’ve received 20k km with a 3 year time limit of free charging with the car and i bareley used up 4k in a year and a half with a charging station right on my commute, no apps, just plug and charge, it’s just that much of a hassle.

For EU to compete with China, we need regulations to stop manufacturers from sabotaging their own cars so that they don’t break down the instant the warranty expires. Other than that is up to the manufacturers to take a good hard look at themselves with how they conduct their businesses and profit margins

How many countries in EU are realistically ready for a full transition to evs? For the last century the german automobile industry was a cherry on top of a cake which german engineering was. It pushed the boundaries of what was possible with so many new inventions, high quality products and reliability, especially when it comes to cars. When EU mandated the transition to ev everyone had to start spending serious money on r&d of evs, ehich resulted in less innovations in ice cars. Compare a 2020s mercedes to a 2010s mercedes – it is such a small upgrade for such a high price. Germans lost their edge in ice cars, japan is miles ahead when in comes to hybrids and ice-ony cars. Now electric cars are a bit diffrent – they don’t require that many innovations, the technology is as old as ice cars. It made sense to go for a mercedes instead of one of those chinese cars in the 2000s, because they were awful. The chinese did what they do best, copied every good bit of foreign cars and made them cheaper. This is normal for a product in its maturity stage – a car that goes from point a to b. Why would I buy an expensive, ev audi with drum brakes and manual seats from a trabant, when I can buy a fully loaded BYD for half the price? The chinese tried really hard to copy the ice stuff but they were never able to. Their “best” products used engines from mitsubishis at best. Now add high costs of living across EU and think again, why any sane 9-5 working person should buy an 100k electric german car. If ice was the stuff we were good at, why limit ourselves? We should not compete with China, we should have been compeating at best with Toyota and their hybrids. Downvote me as much as you like, I’m just not going to buy the 100k electric german car and we killed this industry

To be fair, there is nothing the EU can do to compete with China when it comes to manufacturing because how the workforce is managed over there is pretty much modern slavery.

The only thing the EU can do is protect their domestic market, and if a rapid transition to EV is massively crippling for the auto industry, easing the requirements is the least worst option.

Regulation doesn’t drive competition, if they could earn more money doing EVs they would do EVs.

the point of regulation isn’t to drive competition, it’s to solve a different goal. if you want the most money you go free market, if you want to tackle some other issue you then regulate.

regulating combusion engines doesn’t drive more competiton, nor was that the point of the previous ban.
when the ban on combusion engines was proposed, it wasn’t because of china, but because of enviromental concerns.

“Does Merz seriously think” – no

I think the better strategy for the EU and US is totally deny the whole climate thing and ban all “ green” stuff and especially declare EV as a communist scheme and ban everything related to EV.

I won’t buy an ice car ever again. After 4 years with my Kia ev6. So, if there’s no good European alternative I’ll buy other brands (except Tesla, I hate Elon musk). Also, people should read the innovators dilemma from Clayton M. Christensen































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Merz will do ANYTHING to spread to the great orange supreme leader so yeah..