Let's take a look at the performance of the governments under Angela Merkel in a less emotional area than refugee policy: the automotive industry.
2007: The Merkel failure begins
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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.
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2008: Merkel in the oil price crisis
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The oil price crisis should have led to important industrial policy decisions in the German car industry. Instead, pathetic whining for lower oil prices
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2009: China announces drastic licensing regulations
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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".
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2010: Electric car with a range of 300 km
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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.
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2011: The fraud formula for plug-in hybrid consumption measurement
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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.
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2012: Electric Bus Conference Munich
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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.
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2013: Study on the market launch of electric cars
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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.
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2014: Tesla announces 50 GWh battery factory
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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.
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2015: VW Dieselgate
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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.
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2016: China shock 8% quota rule for electric cars
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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.
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2017: Merkel sees black for the German car industry
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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.
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2017: EU wants fuel consumption measurement in cars from 2020
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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.
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2018: Diesel driving ban
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Germany does not have a government, but a reaction. Instead of active shaping, there is only reaction to disasters of all kinds.
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