A purely German murder: the locomotive of the European car industry derailed
- December 23, 2022
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Curious news comes from the Old World: the main European economy is ending the project of electric cars at the stroke of a pen and is accelerating the
Curious news comes from the Old World: the main European economy is ending the project of electric cars at the stroke of a pen and is accelerating the production of diesel vehicles. Hold on, you say, but what about ecology and the environment? All those beautiful words that have “fed” us for the past ten years? So, the portal “AvtoVzglyad” had the same questions.
There is no doubt that 2022 will be remembered by each of us: the masks were removed and the landscape was destroyed with such speed, as if the Mayan calendar had been recalculated and a new date for the apocalypse had been found. By the way, about the masks – or rather, about the masks. Elon “our everything” opened “Gigafactory 4” near Berlin in March, which was planned to fill the European market with advanced American electric vehicles and fully meet local demand for a “clean car”.
Moreover, Volkswagen, which has not yet recovered from the “dieselgate”, has curbed the production of godless heavy-fuel engines and announced another page flip: the future belongs to electricity! At the same time, mass preparation took place: the German “countries” subsidized the purchase of an electric car. By trading in your ‘smoky’ car, you can get a discount of up to 5,000 euros on a new ‘electric train’.
In general, the world entered the era of “high voltage” with great strides. But he did not enter, literally stumbled over the threshold.
Suddenly it turned out that electric vehicles, imagine, need electricity. And now it’s the biggest shortfall in the Old World. The shortage is so acute that the peaceful atom has been recognized as “green” in a number of meetings (recall that on December 31, 2021, Germany closed three of its six nuclear power plants and that in 2022 the remaining ones were to be “finished”). off”), and the smokiest, dirtiest coal-fired power stations began to resuscitate urgently.
That is, the idea of abandoning coal by 2030 has collapsed in a bewitching way. But these are all “bows”, but the fundamental truth is frighteningly objective: Volkswagen will restore production of “diesel engines” next year, and the German government will cut subsidies for the purchase of electric vehicles from January. Hey, what about ecology and the Gigafactory?
Boring Germans found out that overpaying for a battery car didn’t pay off even with the old electricity prices, and even more so with the new ones. Talking about ecology and the future is only possible in the leather armchair of your own warm living room, and when bills, from groceries to utility bills, go beyond the “pull” mark, quickly approaching “don’t pull”, you need to grab a calculator . That is his victim and became electric vehicles.
Battery cars are expensive. And not only at the purchase, but now also at the gas station. Words about ecology – pure marketing for the need to explain the initially high price. Even without mapping out the global problem of recycling used batteries, electric trains have never been and will not be the key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. After all, the electricity they consume in huge quantities – 30 kW / h per hundred kilometers – must be generated.
The wind and the sun, on which they relied, did not justify themselves, the nuclear power plant closed, gas is expensive. Coal and fuel oil remain – the dirtiest and most environmentally harmful, but the only possible. I didn’t do a little math, uh-huh. Only here will the miscalculation cost you dearly: the restoration and, moreover, the construction of a nuclear power plant takes years, so Volkswagen intervened in time.
What will happen tomorrow is not clear, no one dares to predict. But tonight the good old ICE is indispensable.
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Photo: electrek.com
There is no doubt that 2022 will be remembered by each of us: the masks were removed and the landscape was destroyed with such speed, as if the Mayan calendar had been recalculated and a new date for the apocalypse had been found. By the way, about the masks – or rather, about the masks. Elon “our everything” opened “Gigafactory 4” near Berlin in March, which was planned to fill the European market with advanced American electric vehicles and fully meet local demand for a “clean car”.
In addition, Volkswagen, which has not yet recovered from the “diesel gate”, has curbed the production of ungodly heavy fuel engines and turned a new page: the future belongs to electricity! At the same time, mass preparation took place: the German “countries” subsidized the purchase of an electric car. By trading in your ‘smoky’ car, you can get a discount of up to 5,000 euros on a new ‘electric train’.
In general, the world entered the era of “high voltage” with great strides. But he did not enter, literally stumbled over the threshold.
Suddenly it turned out that electric vehicles, imagine, need electricity. And now it’s the biggest shortfall in the Old World. The shortage is so acute that the peaceful atom has been recognized as “green” in a number of meetings (recall that on December 31, 2021, Germany closed three of its six nuclear power plants and that in 2022 the remaining ones were to be “finished”). off”), and the smokiest, dirtiest coal-fired power stations began to resuscitate urgently.
That is, the idea of abandoning coal by 2030 has collapsed in a bewitching way. But these are all “bows”, but the fundamental truth is frighteningly objective: Volkswagen will restore production of “diesel engines” next year, and the German government will cut subsidies for the purchase of electric vehicles from January. Hey, what about ecology and the Gigafactory?
Boring Germans found out that overpaying for a battery car didn’t pay off even with the old electricity prices, and even more so with the new ones. Talking about ecology and the future is only possible in the leather armchair of your own warm living room, and when bills, from groceries to utility bills, go beyond the “pull” mark, quickly approaching “don’t pull”, you need to grab a calculator . That is his victim and became electric vehicles.
Battery cars are expensive. And not only at the purchase, but now also at the gas station. Words about ecology – pure marketing for the need to explain the initially high price. Even without mapping out the global problem of recycling used batteries, electric trains have never been and will not be the key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. After all, the electricity they consume in huge quantities – 30 kW / h per hundred kilometers – must be generated.
The wind and the sun, on which they relied, did not justify themselves, the nuclear power plant closed, gas is expensive. Coal and fuel oil remain – the dirtiest and most environmentally harmful, but the only possible. I didn’t do a little math, uh-huh. Only here will the miscalculation cost you dearly: the restoration and, moreover, the construction of a nuclear power plant takes years, so Volkswagen intervened in time.
What will happen tomorrow is not clear, no one dares to predict. But tonight the good old ICE is indispensable.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
Donald Salinas is an experienced automobile journalist and writer for Div Bracket. He brings his readers the latest news and developments from the world of automobiles, offering a unique and knowledgeable perspective on the latest trends and innovations in the automotive industry.
