Germany wants the EU to set tariffs on electric vehicles at a low level to avoid severe retaliation from Beijing.
Germany has launched an 11th-hour bid to avert a full-scale trade war between Europe and China, resisting French calls to hit Chinese electric vehicles with punitive duties.
With a decision by the European Commission imminent, both Paris and Berlin have ramped up their lobbying efforts — with conflicting messages on just how tough Ursula von der Leyen’s executive should get on Beijing.
The EU executive is expected to inform Chinese EV-makers on Wednesday of temporary duties resulting from its probe into unfair state subsidies. EU member countries would then vote this fall to confirm the duties — making it vital for von der Leyen to pitch them at a level that the bloc’s two heavyweights can live with.
Germany should spend more time on making their cars better instead of the over engineered, over priced garbage they are producing.
Yeah… fuck those German car makers with their safe reliable vehicles.
Yes VW, Audi, BMW, Mercedes are all definitely garbage. /s
Absolutely the companies that make some of the best cars in the world, should make better cars. What a moronic comment!
They are actually very attractive offerings too, I recently tried a BMW eDrive i4-40, it’s an absolutely amazing car. And VW has some pretty attractive prices IMO.
You have no idea about cars or the repairs you have to do on them to make such a statement.
It’s not 1990 anymore.
Actually your entire tone makes me wonder if you aren’t the moron all long 🤔
I can believe that with BMW, but every other German brand is literally top quality (as the rest of the EU).