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.

Estimates of the costs go up to 20 to 25 billion EUR. While Tesla is currently making a 6 billion investment to build a battery factory for 50 GWh annual battery production, Volkswagen is sinking several times that amount into the emissions fraud affair.

The money could have been invested in 200 GWh battery factories. Enough for 3 million electric cars with a 50 kWh battery and 3 million plug-in hybrids with a 16 kWh battery. I am assuming realistic battery capacities here, not rolling waivers for electric cars and plug-in hybrids optimized for the standard consumption fraud formula.

The competition never sleeps

The first serious Tesla competitor is presented at the IAA 2015: The Thunder Power with 125 kWh battery is to be launched on the market in 2017. A Taiwanese electronics company feels called upon to shake up the luxury car class.

Tesla announced the Model 3 in 2016 and receives 400,000 pre-orders. Renault gives the Zoe a larger battery for a range of 400 km. GM announces the Chevrolet Bolt. The time of rolling disclaimers is over.

Renault turned Dacia into a low-cost brand within the Group. Since October 2014, I have been enjoying the excellent services of Gérard Detourbet: after my Seat Alhambra was destroyed in the underground parking garage during a flood, I now drive a Dacia Lodgy. Minivan at half the price, state-of-the-art lightweight technology, 2 liters more economical than my previous Alhambra.

Now Renault is putting Gérard Detourbet, dubbed "Mr. Low Cost" by the media, in charge of cheap electric cars.

Delivery of BYD electric buses and electric cars

A large number of vehicles are to be delivered to a Chinese city. Before the delivery on December 30, 2015, a lot of parking space is occupied.

These are 12m electric buses with a 324 kWh battery and e6 electric cars with an 82 kWh battery.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.