On paper, the recent EU-China auto deal looks like a compromise Europe needed. In reality, it is a big mistake: short-term relief for European automakers versus long-term market dominance for China.
The EU protects the hybride car market in Europe in essence protecting the ‘old’ combustible engine technology at the same not incentivizing EU car makers to go all in on Electrical Vehicles.
The future however is 100% electric, and this is where the EU car makers will lose out as they remain stuck in their old ways.
This deal shows the pressure the EU is under to get short-term relief, while at the same time not thinking about the long-term consequences.
In essence they EU has no China strategy
(i meant the news of them hacking australian government websites for fun. something which anonymous red state is yet to do)
but i more meant to elucidate your fears of electricity exclusive future, you can make perfectly fine grid without blackouts fears, it doesn’t need to be centralized, plugged into internet or any such thing, if one were to design it system wide to be resilient to such nonsense.
it is a rather bad idea due to other concerns, namely mining extraction, frequently by european companies as well as chinese, frequently in global south, frequently not very concerned with child labor or mining refuse.
but the first step answer rather is obvious: forbid advertising for cars including movies, have fun convincing germans of this. after all, hybrid vehicles eat same amount of copper as full evs, cause the motors are the same
I would be more worried about the huge amount of data being collected by brands including BYD.
aren’t you worried by huge amounts of data being collected by windows pc and google? you know, actual thoughts and dreams of people rather than their commute
Sure but its not being used by the govt for foreign interference
yes it is
you love it stop pretending
Yes I love being surveilled by foreign interference country. Very good for us
i wonder what happens when you reply to banned accounts