The weather clearly plays a huge role. After all that is why the country with the most EVs is tropical Norway. /s

It is a US problem. They cut subsidies, do not let Chinese EVs in the market and Trump killed the laws of a lot of US states to end ICE sales 2035. The rest of the world sees higher EV sales. That is very much including the EU. They get cheaper every year and combustion engine sales are falling already.

Nobody would look at the world largest steaming pile of manure and call it ‘impressive’.

Fertilizer or great for biogas production.

The really insane part is that Western car makers EVs are pretty cheap in China. Volkswagen sells its ID.3 for 14,400€ in China and 33,330€ in Germany for example. ICE cars would be dead, if they made those offers in Germany.

The US certainly. The EU is a bit of a different story. BEV sales in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Finland are around 50% already. Looking at the total market it is also quite decent and sees strong growth. There are quite a few cheap BEVs entering the market soon, so the share in other markets is probably going to increase.

Also the ICE phase out 2035 might stay. France and Spain both want to keep it. With the votes from the smaller EU members above, they can block it, since it needs a qualified majority to pass in the council. If that happens EV share is obviously going to increase quickly.

In the future the managers and politicans making these decisions will be gone.

There are a bunch of issues here. First of all EVs are a mass market now. We are at the point were EV production is no longer just added to ICE production, but is replacing it. Often that means building up new factories and closing old ones. For some companies making combustion engine parts, this means they are dead as companies. Within the large car makers it similarily leads to departments and factories being closed. That is also why the fight against EVs is lead by parts manufacturers and not the large automakers themself.

The other very obvious problem are oil companies. The EU is currently at about peak ICE cars in its car fleet and cars make up a huge part of oil consumption.

This has nothing to do with masculinity and everything to do with money.

Turns out birds are smart enough to understand that the blades can kill them. So they avoid flying into them.

The Citroen Ami was developed by PSA, which then merged with FIAT Chrysler to form Stellantis. However PSA did not even try to sell anything in the US. However there is a market for small vehicles in the US. For example:

He probably wants to leave the European market and knows that EVs will be a hard sell in the US for some time. Especially with none US car makers not focusing on massive trucks.

Under Biden the US was actually moving in the right direction with the Inflation Reduction Act. That would have helped a lot, but the American people rather elected Trump again.

The German car industry is more then just the big car brands. They are aware of the Chinese competition and they have invested a lot to be able to compete. However for parts suppliers this is much more difficult. If you are a making some metal engine casts for example, you really do not have expertise, which translate well to EV production. So you probably go down. Those sort of ICE car part suppliers have fired 50k workers in Germany this year already. The transition is hurting them badly and they would love five more years.

The good news is that Germany is at 30% BEV production and rising fast. So those companies are already in a very bad place and so is their lobbying power long term. For Germany Spain and France blocking this is probably the best thing to happen. Oh and the EV industry did get buyers subsidies in Germany for the next five years.

This entire article imho stinks. Some insurance company boss from the UK says that the EU, which the UK is no longer a part of is going to do something. Sure some actors would like that, but this seems strange. Especially with France and Spain being against it.

It is about Trump wanting German car companies to move their production to the US. Which is also really important to stress that a lot of cars made in the US are not made by the big 4, but by Toyota, Hyundai, Volkswagen, BMW, Subaru and other foreign car companies. A lot of countries are looking for similar set ups from China as well. So stuff like BYD building factories in Thailand and Hungary for example.

That is most certainly the first time, I heared the United States of America described as a nobody.

Germany had 2.8million new cars sold in 2024 and a production of 4million cars. So net export is 1.2million cars. The difference is that Germany imports 4x more cars China does.

About the absolute and per capita. That does not make that much sense for trade. Countries with a smaller population have to specialize much more and trade in other products. Iceland would be stupid, if it had its own car industry for example, but it has a massive aluminium overproduction, which it can then trade for say cars. However larger countries are able to produce a lot more internally. So they tend to export and import less on a per capita bases. So yes China can not do certain things other smaller countries do, just due to its size. In this case even 4x lower net exports of cars then Germany, still mean 4x more cars being exported in total, which causes trouble around the world.

Maybe you should actually read the article you linked. It clearly speaks about overcapacity.

Also China is by far the biggest car producer in the world making up a third of global production. The exports are also massive. Last year the exported 5.859 million vehicles and grew more then 19%. The only countries producing more cars then China exports(only exports) are the US, Japan and India. Also this up until September Chinas car exports grew by 14.8% compared to the same period last year. So that would overtake Indias total car production of last year.

They are phasing out subsidies to buyers of EVs, but not the ones applying to Chinese exports of EVs. The Chinese even aknowledge that their susbidies created a massive oversupply, which means artifically low prices for them. That creates a huge problem for the European car industry, which did not get those subsidies.

From the article:

China has sent a clear signal that it is willing to pull the plug on subsidies for its electric vehicle industry

That is a huge difference to having mostly phased out subsidies.

This is the end of US car makers besides Tesla. Very few countries like to buy those massive American trucks and SUVs and without EVs selling normal cars is going to be difficult in many large markets, such as China and Europe. GM has basically left Europe already and Ford is firing workers like crazy. Stellantis is very likely to follow, but they have strong European brands and probably manage a bit longer.