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EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon

79 points · 150 comments · blondie9x

  1. ikidd · · focus · HN ↗
    The Jeffrey Epstein Memorial War is the worst thing to ever hit the American auto industry and workers, since that industry is so far behind on EV adoption they'll never catch up to the Asian manufacturers.

    It'll kill them, the Big 3 should be losing their everloving minds over it.

    1. eqvinox · · focus · HN ↗
      > the American auto industry

      Have you seen the state of the German auto industry? You can point and laugh.

      And they have been warned about this, in 2019, by vice chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens). Too bad nobody cared to listen.

      1. Gud · · focus · HN ↗
        The writing was on the wall when Tesla started rolling out the Model S, in 2012. BYD followed shortly after.

        The Germans hate electric cars for some weird reason.

        1. eqvinox · · focus · HN ↗
          > The Germans hate electric cars for some weird reason.

          German car executives hate electric cars for some weird reason.

          Actual Germans don't care and buy them like everybody else, depending on fit, availability and price.

          1. sodastar · · focus · HN ↗
            not really, Germans do hate electric cars as they don't go vroom vroom, there are no emotions transported while driving them and you are doing something for the environment.

            A lot of germans hate EVs because the greens said they were good.

            1. NekkoDroid · · focus · HN ↗
              > not really, Germans do hate electric cars as they don't go vroom vroom, there are no emotions transported while driving them

              I genuinely don't know a single German that thinks like that. But that might be because I live in BW.

          2. ZeroGravitas · · focus · HN ↗
            Germany is slightly ahead (a few percentage points) of the EU plus EFTA plus UK market average according to data:

            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robbieandrew.github.io&#x2F;carsales&#x2F;?lang=en&amp;freq=monthly&amp;type=relative&amp;sort=alphabetical&amp;country=Germany%2CEUROPEAN+UNION%2CEU+%2B+EFTA+%2B+UK" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robbieandrew.github.io&#x2F;carsales&#x2F;?lang=en&amp;freq=monthl...

            Note the German data goes back further so you can&#x27;t directly eyeball them without accounting for that.

            Currently just trailing France and further behind Sweden, Denmark, Norway.

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