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VW is a massive casualty, but the future of automotive is currently a cutthroat war between BYD and Tesla. Everyone else is, at best, a second tier competitor. Auto industry/dealerships for trad cars is not looking good.
It is unfortunate for the employees but it is necessary, and hopefully also a wake up call for other German companies and the government. It’s time for leaner structures, smaller teams, faster decisions, and shorter development cycles. Volkswagen, like no other company, symbolizes the lethargy of the German economy and business environment. Hopefully, the seven years with barely any economic growth will end soon.
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EU didn't close nuclear plants, not sure what you're talking about. This is a choice some countries did in the past due to Chernobyl and Fukushima. The "fatality" was performed successfully by the Greens.
Why does this obvious falsehood get repeated so much on hn Everyone can look up what the CDU did, it's not like they did it in secret. It's bad enough that nuclear proponents ignore the massive cost of nuclear compared to renewables once you factor in building costs, insurance and storage imho. But then to pretend like the conservatives didn't have a choice but to bungle the nuclear exit really is too much. The CDU n…
The Green party itself was literally born out of a protest against nuclear reactors in the 70's (Whyl).
CDU tried to slow down the phase out, but when Fukishima happened Merkel thought about staying in power rather than doing the right thing (= not shutting down the power plants).
I don't care about CDU, which as usual never misses a chance to disappoint, but not saying that the phase out was planned and executed by the Greens (and obviously SPD) is just factually wrong, because they initiated it all and implemented it. It wasn't just a draft, "let's see if it gets amended, etc..".
EDIT: I was talking just purely about energy and such reforms. The last 30 years have been ... to say the least... "weird" and short term.
Disabling a technology is a huge mistake, no matter what. No country did it the way it was done in Germany.
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OP said "Germany decided". EU did the Green Deal, though, which is way worse than shutting down a few nuclear reactors that after all didn't produce that much energy anymore and were anyways planned to be shut down.
The green deal is needed to make sure we can still live in this world 50 years from now. We're already feeling the effects of climate change pretty heavily and it's only just starting. If anything the deal was too little too late.
We pollute right outside our block, give credits to companies claiming to be "green" so that we can sell hardware here that is certified, so that we can go to sleep a bit happier as human beings, because we believe we're doing the right thing.
In all this, they make tons of money, make our economy worse than it ever was with no end game.
We're measuring with the wrong targets.