L’UE si piega alle richieste delle case automobilistiche di lasciar perdere la corsa ai veicoli elettrici contro la Cina

EU has been bending to everything, people outside and now even the incompetent industry bosses inside.

I’d like to meet the person who believes both:

1. Relaxing mandates will cause the west to lose the “EV Race”.

2. The west is actually capable of “winning” this race if the mandates remained.

It’s easy to conclude 1 but who actually believes 2? By what measure? Not on cost that’s for sure.

It’s always the EU’s fault. For years I’ve been hearing the (Russia supported) propaganda that the 2035 ICE ban was killing the European car industry and that would have only made China happy. Now that they have come to some sort of reason for a more slow transition: “The EU wants to poison us with gas engines”.
Choose your side, it’s either one or the other.

To be fair I doubt they would have caught up, better take your loss and start with something we are better at.

The race is not fully lost, European car brands are still going to release new EVs. Volkswagen showed their new ID Polo, the entry level model will cost the same as the current Polo running on petrol.

Renault is also doing great with their Renault 5, even Ford wants to use that platform for their own small EV car in Europe.

I heard that European companies were investing their earning in the USA stock market, instead on investing in R&D and in infrastructure in Europe, if this is true then why should I, a European help save them? If my purchase will move money offshore why should I not pick the Chinese option which is cheaper for my pocket?

EU “leaders” are a bunch or cowards that want to keep in line by oil autocracies.

Loosers

Who care about the race, they want to squeeze the last drops from the industry and then sell them to Africa.

The only way forward for Europe is to force Chinese EV companies set up joint ventures in EU, and transfer their know how to European automakers. There’s no shame in that, every country does that.

EVs are better than ICE in every way possible in China now. ICEs are just like old mechanical cameras when digital cameras came out, which was rapidly becoming obsolete. The world will not need ICE cars outside of few luxury car niech, no matter what EU law makers do.

I was working with a Chinese minning company in Africa, and their entire truck fleet was Electric trucks from Chinese producers. Electric vihicles are simply more reliable, since there’s way less moving parts. That’s a huge pro in Africa where maintanance is difficult. On top of that, the fuel cost is way down, the assistance features are better, and the prices are about the same with ICE trucks. There’s just no reason for new mining sites to buy ICE trucks anymore.

Now if even Africa is going electric, the only thing holding Europe back is simply consumer mindsite. And that will change over time when people see consumers from other places keep getting the better product with better deal. No one will be stubborn agianst their wollets.

So letting state subsidized, money losing foreign EV companies (BYD makes most of its money on PHEVs) continue their race to the bottom while Europe continues to make ICE cars with heritage that consumers actually want?

Got it.