Don't worry, it's just a temporary issue. German car brands will be back in business as soon as the demand for combustion engines picks up again! /s
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German car brands are handling the transition relatively well. Volkswagen Group was 5th in global BEV sales in 2025 up from 7th in 2024. BMW was 7th last year. Germany is the second largest producer of BEVs in the world.
The estimates for job losses due to EVs in Germany were about 200k or so, if the transition is going okay. It currently looks pretty decent for Germany to be completely honest.
Doesn't look like that to me. They lobby to keep combustion engines alive. The cars are expensive, boring and 90% are SUVs (just check volkswagen.de to see how many models they have in the SUV category, vs. small cars or other types). Features and entertainment systems look like they are 10 to 20 years behind compared to what you get from Chinese EVs for half the price.
Yeah this. Reminds me of the slow but inevitable death of German coal (is it even dead now? it probably still writhes in some corner).
OTOH, considering where our "big brother" is going, you might be unironically right. Let's hope not.
Mit dem aus des verbrennen aus ist das ja zum GlΓΌck bald
So weird, right? Nobody would have expected that focusing on luxury EVs while the market was demanding AFFORDABLE EVs would have make you sink while the Chinese brands making those affordable EVs soar.
Why? Why did ignoring what the market was asking have consequences to my product?
Thats crazy. Who woulda thunk that european governments going for a strategy of giving rich (pedophiles) people billions in subsidies to buy american teslas while not funding mass appeal utilitarian electric vehicles to be built in europe for the masses or even helping poor people buy bikes, would result in american teslas only being bought by rich people paid for by poor people, while the chinese destroy the entire industry by building affordable cars for the masses. At a time of increasing inequality. Im glad all those rich people got so much money to buy fancy cars though. They can be more green while fucking the rest of the population.
The production of EVs involves fewer tasks for humans, compared to combustion engine cars. No surprise here. It will be interesting to see which firms the former employees will work for.