2014: Tesla announces 50 GWh battery factory

The size of the planned factory shows the intention to sell not only in the luxury class. With the production capacity, a broad attack on the upper mid-range is possible.

50 GWh batteries are enough for 700 thousand cars with an average 70 kWh battery. These quantities cannot be sold in the luxury class. The planning for this factory shows that a broad attack on the upper mid-range is planned.

Where will the German manufacturers get the batteries from?

Volkswagen is in the region of 10 million cars per year. Since this also includes small cars, an average of 50 kWh per car can be assumed. We are talking about electric cars here, not rolling waivers. 50 kWh per car would mean 10 battery factories, as Elon Musk is now building one.

Would a BMW buyer accept that BMW no longer builds engines because there is now a KIA engine inside? Hardly, the engine is the central competence of a car manufacturer. In an electric car, the battery is the central competence of the manufacturer.

Tesla is building its own factory. BYD started out as a battery manufacturer and only installs its own batteries. Where are the German manufacturers? Where is the German government to push battery factories in the same way as the Chinese government has just done with photovoltaic factories?

Different understanding of government

The Chinese government system is most similar to the management of a holding company. They bring capable managers into management. Being a billionaire is a good prerequisite for being appointed to the management of this holding company. Developing new lines of business is seen as an important management task.

What can I possibly think about the German government? In 2007, I compared the German government to the parents of spoiled and lazy children who go to the teacher to intervene and ask them not to be so strict. In 2017, I started writing this documentary because these parents of spoiled and lazy children have to intervene again. Have mercy! The 8% electric car quota for the Chinese market is far too strict!

Oh, such measures were already announced in 2009? Yes, they somehow forgot about it after they somehow didn't take it seriously.

Politics - political targets of PEGE
	Nonpolitical, pragmatic, on the other side of ideologies counts in our politic only one target: A long time lasting civilization able to develop further on a stable base.

Philosophy
	Long-term planning and stability have to be the guiding rules of politics. A philosophy based on the mathematic branch of games theory.

Living standard
	What is living standard? How is living standard correctly measured? Is it possible, that our living standard declines drastic, while uncorrect numbers want to make us belive it's like paradise?

Taxes tax politics
	The consequences of the tax politic for humans and environment. The politicians claim to fight for humans and the environment, but the tax politics shows the exact opposit.

Energy politic
	Decades of wrong energy politic. Instead of more living standard with less energy usage, partial the contrary was reached. A result of the wrong tax politic.

1992: The Rügen Experiment
	From 1992 to 1996, research minister Heinz Riesenhuber and environment minister Angela Merkel demonstrated the unsuitability of electric cars on the island of Rügen.

2007: The Merkel failure begins
	The first appeal to Merkel to prevent the German car industry from resting on its laurels and falling behind was made on January 31, 2007.

2008: Merkel in the oil price crisis
	The oil price crisis should have led to important industrial policy decisions in the German car industry. Instead, pathetic whining for lower oil prices

2009: China announces drastic licensing regulations
	The Chinese counterpart to Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel: "Have you seen a single petrol scooter? They don't exist any more, they can no longer be registered, only electric scooters".

2010: Electric car with a range of 300 km
	The sensation at the Geneva Motor Show: the first family-friendly electric car with a range of 300 km. With the BYD e6, electromobility is breaking out of narrow niche markets.

2011: The fraud formula for plug-in hybrid consumption measurement
	Germany has been unable to reduce the EU's CO2 emission targets for the car industry. But the cheating formula for the whitewashing of plug-in hybrids is working.

2012: Electric Bus Conference Munich
	Grotesque differences in consumption between electric buses and hydrogen fuel cell buses. Nevertheless, a lot of research money continues to be sunk into hydrogen vehicles.

2015: VW Dieselgate
	Large-scale fraud as industrial policy and the consequences if it is discovered. German politicians have systematically created an environment in which Volkswagen thought it could get away with it.

2016: China shock 8% quota rule for electric cars
	Years of deep sleep in the German car industry, a few rolling declarations of abandonment to claim that they were building electric cars. But then the wake-up call from China.

2013: Study on the market launch of electric cars
	The German car industry has even managed to corrupt the state-affiliated Fraunhofer research institute. An unscientific study on the market for electric cars shows this.

2017: Merkel sees black for the German car industry
	At a meeting with her colleagues from the EU according to information from SPIEGEL, the Chancellor touched on a sensitive topic: the foreseeable decline of a German flagship industry.

2017: EU wants fuel consumption measurement in cars from 2020
	For the insider, it is a defense against large-scale fraud; for the uninformed citizen, it is the total surveillance state. Background information on the planned consumption measurement.

2018: Diesel driving ban
	Germany does not have a government, but a reaction. Instead of active shaping, there is only reaction to disasters of all kinds.