Bespoke translation by yours truly. Original article [A] by Danisch
You gotta hand it to him. He's got a sense of humor. If only a very strange one.
Golem: Habeck demands 20,000 euros electric car from VW
Oh, wow.
So:
And how does he justify his wishes?
I see. The high prices are the bad decisions by the corporations. It's not the high location costs that are to blame, but the capitalist desire "Just let us build expensive cars!". They just decided wrong. Where the money for development and machinery is supposed to come from - it doesn't make sense to me.
"Made the conscious decision?" - the thought that new technology starts out very expensive because it needs to be developed and made marketable and the development costs and the costs for new suppliers and new machines, new trainings have to be paid doesn't cross his mind. As if you could just go and build an electric car from scratch.
Just as a comparison: I bought my first LED light bulbs for 230 volt around the year 2009 or 2010, and paid 30 to 40 euros apiece [approx 52 USD in today's USD]. From the first ones, a few of them even melted away because they were sized wrong. Today, you get them for 2 euros or cheaper. But that only works because the technology has been mastered in the meantime and a few billions of them have been sold already.
Back then, they used to call that a "problem". Some political strategist has turned that into "challenge".
Oh yes.
Well, Japan and China don't have Green governments and completely different energy and labor costs, especially with China having less bureaucracy and also lacking all this energy, climate, and anti-capitalism harassment.
Somehow he fails to grasp that he himself as Federal Minister of the Economy and the Green Party as a whole are responsible for this and worked to make everything here being more expensive, more difficult, more complicated, more bureaucratic, more laborious than in China. That they destroyed this location here.
And then he comes along and wants us to compete against China and build just as cheaply.
I'm excited to see how long it'll take until VW reacts and creates an itemized list of differences between Germany and China and calls for their abolition. Coal energy again. Cheap labor as far as you can see. No harassment laws like the supply chain law. No women's and LVBQERXZ quotas.
So that shot could (and should) backfire really hard. I wonder what kind of world he lives in, how he imagines it, that they keep harassing and burdening the economy with ever more costs, but still demand prices like in China.
Or, however, he doesn't even believe it himself and just does election campaigning grandstanding contrary to his better knowledge.
Completely beside the fact that, even if I had a 20,000 euros or cheaper electric car, I wouldn't know how and where I could charge it. I wouldn't even know if you gifted me one. I've got no power outlet in the underground parking garage. In Munich, the distance between parking spot and basement compartment was so low that I managed to use the cable reel from the basement to get to the car to, for instance, hook up a vacuum cleaner (the cable blocked two fire doors from closing, which is why I only did it rarely and only while in attendance). But in Berlin, I've got nothing other than the space to put a car there. Which worked well for 10 years. Because my combustion engine car is quite content if it can stand around somewhere in peace. But I wouldn't know for the life of me how I would be supposed to use an electric car in practice in Berlin.
Although - it could work, but it wouldn't be called a "car" then. There's a few delivery-order places that deliver food to your front door. They drive during the cold and bad weather with these single-seat mini thingies that can't do 50 [30 mph] and can only carry one person and three pizzas. It's more like an electric bicycle with some added wind protection. I once read a manufacturer's name on one of these things (don't recall it anymore) and googled it. Even these pizza baskets cost almost 10,000 euros. Zero safety in an accident. If a car catches you while you're inside of it, the mortician needs a scraper to scrape you off the street and something wet to wipe it.
But try to explain that to the Greens.
Cloud-cuckoo-land and Bullerby.
I'd be interested to know how many people in Germany will fall for it and believe that we can simultaneously make everything expensive and complicated and then build electric cars for 20,000 euros.
By the way: Tata Motors offers an electric car in India starting at 11,000 euros. The Tiago.ev.
Completely beside the fact that these Indian cheapo cars normally don't qualify for car registration here because they don't fulfill the technical regulations and collapse in the safety test like a house of cards and don't have all this stuff built-in that's mandated by the EU: Go and compare the energy, labor, material, and additional costs in India with the ones in Germany. Try negotiating Indian wages with the domestic labor unions. Even though they proudly advertise to have one of the safest cars "in the country" and 4 stars in the GNCAP test. But what is it worth having one of the safest cars in India?
The strange tomfoolery of Robert Habeck (Minister of the Economy)
You gotta hand it to him. He's got a sense of humor. If only a very strange one.
Golem: Habeck demands 20,000 euros electric car from VW
Oh, wow.
So:
- Electricity and energy are being made expensive.
- Taxes and dues are high.
- Labor costs are being driven way up, minimum wage, taxes, social security payments, increasing health insurance fund costs.
- Construction costs are increasing to an extreme degree because of more and more annoyances in building.
- Endless bureaucracy and harassment.
- Constant surprises, you never know what's coming tomorrow.
- Manpower is being dug out due to Bürgergeld [unemployment money] and social science degrees.
- Additional burdens through quota ballast.
- Miserable school education, too many people who cannot read and write properly anymore.
And how does he justify his wishes?
I see. The high prices are the bad decisions by the corporations. It's not the high location costs that are to blame, but the capitalist desire "Just let us build expensive cars!". They just decided wrong. Where the money for development and machinery is supposed to come from - it doesn't make sense to me.
"Made the conscious decision?" - the thought that new technology starts out very expensive because it needs to be developed and made marketable and the development costs and the costs for new suppliers and new machines, new trainings have to be paid doesn't cross his mind. As if you could just go and build an electric car from scratch.
Just as a comparison: I bought my first LED light bulbs for 230 volt around the year 2009 or 2010, and paid 30 to 40 euros apiece [approx 52 USD in today's USD]. From the first ones, a few of them even melted away because they were sized wrong. Today, you get them for 2 euros or cheaper. But that only works because the technology has been mastered in the meantime and a few billions of them have been sold already.
Back then, they used to call that a "problem". Some political strategist has turned that into "challenge".
Oh yes.
Well, Japan and China don't have Green governments and completely different energy and labor costs, especially with China having less bureaucracy and also lacking all this energy, climate, and anti-capitalism harassment.
Somehow he fails to grasp that he himself as Federal Minister of the Economy and the Green Party as a whole are responsible for this and worked to make everything here being more expensive, more difficult, more complicated, more bureaucratic, more laborious than in China. That they destroyed this location here.
And then he comes along and wants us to compete against China and build just as cheaply.
I'm excited to see how long it'll take until VW reacts and creates an itemized list of differences between Germany and China and calls for their abolition. Coal energy again. Cheap labor as far as you can see. No harassment laws like the supply chain law. No women's and LVBQERXZ quotas.
So that shot could (and should) backfire really hard. I wonder what kind of world he lives in, how he imagines it, that they keep harassing and burdening the economy with ever more costs, but still demand prices like in China.
Or, however, he doesn't even believe it himself and just does election campaigning grandstanding contrary to his better knowledge.
Completely beside the fact that, even if I had a 20,000 euros or cheaper electric car, I wouldn't know how and where I could charge it. I wouldn't even know if you gifted me one. I've got no power outlet in the underground parking garage. In Munich, the distance between parking spot and basement compartment was so low that I managed to use the cable reel from the basement to get to the car to, for instance, hook up a vacuum cleaner (the cable blocked two fire doors from closing, which is why I only did it rarely and only while in attendance). But in Berlin, I've got nothing other than the space to put a car there. Which worked well for 10 years. Because my combustion engine car is quite content if it can stand around somewhere in peace. But I wouldn't know for the life of me how I would be supposed to use an electric car in practice in Berlin.
Although - it could work, but it wouldn't be called a "car" then. There's a few delivery-order places that deliver food to your front door. They drive during the cold and bad weather with these single-seat mini thingies that can't do 50 [30 mph] and can only carry one person and three pizzas. It's more like an electric bicycle with some added wind protection. I once read a manufacturer's name on one of these things (don't recall it anymore) and googled it. Even these pizza baskets cost almost 10,000 euros. Zero safety in an accident. If a car catches you while you're inside of it, the mortician needs a scraper to scrape you off the street and something wet to wipe it.
But try to explain that to the Greens.
Cloud-cuckoo-land and Bullerby.
I'd be interested to know how many people in Germany will fall for it and believe that we can simultaneously make everything expensive and complicated and then build electric cars for 20,000 euros.
By the way: Tata Motors offers an electric car in India starting at 11,000 euros. The Tiago.ev.
Completely beside the fact that these Indian cheapo cars normally don't qualify for car registration here because they don't fulfill the technical regulations and collapse in the safety test like a house of cards and don't have all this stuff built-in that's mandated by the EU: Go and compare the energy, labor, material, and additional costs in India with the ones in Germany. Try negotiating Indian wages with the domestic labor unions. Even though they proudly advertise to have one of the safest cars "in the country" and 4 stars in the GNCAP test. But what is it worth having one of the safest cars in India?
What the fuck are they thinking. Heres your 20k EV car bro
