Exclusive: Swedish carmakers push to retain target as Germany lobbies to help its own industry by softening cutoff date

Exclusive: Swedish carmakers push to retain target as Germany lobbies to help its own industry by softening cutoff date

  • RidderSport@feddit.orgEnglish
    16·
    7 months ago

    And both are mostly EV already, Polestar fully. I mean they’re right but not really objective

    • Pringles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      191·
      7 months ago

      It’s not only Geely owned manufacturers saying this though. The ceo of Stellantis said the exact same thing a week ago. Companies that did their homework will make the deadline easily, whereas the laggards will suffer.

      And then you have Volkswagen, who went full EV, screwed it up by half-assing it, backpedalled under shareholder pressure and is now at the forefront of this lobbying.

    • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Is it necessary to be “objective” in this case?

      It’s not like the ICE manufacturing companies are any more objective.

      Sometimes there’s just a right and wrong, and we don’t need 50/50 objectivity to see what’s what.

      • RidderSport@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        No objectivity, if there even is any party actually objective in this matter, is not necessary, I just wanted to point that put since I presumed that many might not now Polestar in general nor what the model lineup of both companies looks like