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What didn’t increase its cost during the crisis? Renewables.

Absolutely, but you shouldn’t replace nuclear with coal, you should build the renewable infrastructure FIRST, and not help create a completely unnecessary shortage that has to be filled in a panic. Closing the nuclear plants was replaced with coal not renewables, except slowly as that capacity is being built.

It was also a double standard, as import of French electricity from nuclear power was still imported.
It was such a shit show, although I agree we should definitely invest in renewables going forward.

Absolutely no, closing the plants made the energy crisis way worse when Russia closed for supplies.

Merkel made some pretty stupid mistakes. Dependency on Russian gas was one, and closing the nuclear plants at the worst possible time was another.
I bet that those 2 are part in why the German economy is currently slowing down.

Pfff 1TWh is only 1000 GWh. 😜
/joke just in case.

The argument seems pretty clear to be the opposite, that it is way better to upgrade the grid.

Hungary has constantly threatened Ukrainian families for 4 years.
Orban should just fuck off, he is a disgrace to his country and EU, and just as bad as Putin and Trump. Good thing he is not as powerful too.
He is also insanely incompetent, and has caused Hungary to have some of the worst economies in EU! While when they got in, Hungary had one of the best among the new members.

Hungary export 75% of their total exports to other EU countries, and they choose to piss all over that relationship. Which is guaranteed to make other countries reluctant to invest in Hungary.

Orban blames EU for everything, and want to cooperate more with Russia. This has harmed Hungary immensely, because Russia is not really about cooperation for mutual benefit, Russia is ONLY about benefiting Russia.
Hungary was allowed into the EU, and then they choose to abandon cooperation with EU? It’s so moronic. 🙄

Orbans constant attacks on Ukraine only serve to please Trump and Putin, and it harms Hungary immensely.
I seriously hope the Hungarian population isn’t buying his cool aid anymore.

This absolutely reeks of American policy to try to stifle China.

This whole story is so moronic by Netherlands. If any other company than a Chinese (for instance India) had bough that company, there would have been zero issues. This is 100% an attempt at holding China back, when they do what everybody in the west is doing.
Buying up companies to gain their know how is completely legitimate business, and is done all the time in the tech industry.
All Netherlands has achieved is that China will be more reluctant investing in the Netherlands in the future.

I am pretty sure I saw somewhere that HL3 was confirmed. 😜

IDK why you didn’t, I don’t care to dig it all up for you, so I’ll just leave an article about Toyota which is the biggest competitor to VW.

Toyota unit to settle emissions scandal for $1.6bn:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62666374l4o

Seeing that this is in UK, my guess is that if they try to take it to court, the court will simply throw the case out.

Kind of weird to call VW late (tardiness), when they completely dominated the EV market in EU in 2025.
VW had very attractive EVs already 5 years ago, while Toyota the worlds biggest car manufacturer only arrived with something last year!
China has been moving very fast, and has a development cadence that is 3 times faster than Tesla.
No western manufacturer can match that, but VW is probably among the closest.

Complete and utterly false, USA has that reputation because it’s true.

USA has that reputation because it happens all the time, because it’s easy to make a lawsuit, even often finding a lawyer that will take the case it without payment, but take the fee as a percentage of the potential winnings. And because USA has insane rules of extremely high compensations.

USA is not known for this because of a single anecdote, but because it’s very common, and because of the insane compensations, which is part of why it is so common to also try with what would be a frivolous suit in any other country.

Point in case would also be the Apple lawsuit against Samsung, where part of the case was as simple as a tablet being a fucking tablet! When even Star Trek of the 60’s realized that it was a convenient form factor.
Apple won on just about all points of the case, but in following years they were completely dismantled, with decisions that the case didn’t have a basis, and the patents were interpreted way to widely.
This was a HUGE case that cost enormous amounts of money for both sides, and the only true winners are the lawyers. The US judicial system in this regard is completely rotten and that is being abused for frivolous cases that would be thrown out in other countries.

The upcoming ID Polo will almost guaranteed be a major hit in my country. if what VW promises is true.
Being a cheap quality EV with good range.

They were merely the first that were caught doing it. Turned out EVERYBODY was doing it.
But maybe you were forgetting that?

mrd ??

Ok thanks, I assumed it was in USA, since Valve is American.
Also frivolous suits tend to happen most in USA.

Transition to EV is expensive, and doubling the product line having both ICE and EV is also expensive.
On top of that competition is very tough with new competition from China.

So all things considered, I think they are meeting the challenges pretty well.
VW is the most sold EV brand in EU, and their MEB platform sold though many other VW group brands dominate EV’s in EU with more than 50% marketshare!

The cars are praised for their quality in several aspects, so it’s not like they have degraded on quality like Stelantis brands have done to keep up profitability. So I think VW is in a good place long term.