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Re:Annotated version
Volkswagen is planning to release
Immediately contradicted by the subsequent line that says "concept car". I'm sure they'll release "something" eventually.
a fully-electric SUV in China which could compete with Tesla’s Model X
Place your bets that like every single other "electric SUV" apart from the Model X, it's simply a moderate-sized 5-seater with "SUV styling".
The German automaker said Sunday the ID. ROOMZZ
I too name vehicles after letters that I draw in Scrabble.
will be unveiled at the upcoming Shanghai Auto Show and will be available in 2021
Don't strain yourself with the rush there, VW.
Volkswagen says the zero-emission vehicle can go approximately 450 kilometers (280 miles) before the battery has to be recharged.
Ignoring the constant stream of "actual range being vastly less than the promised concept range" vehicles that we've been getting from European automakers, China measures ranges on the laughably lax NEDC cycle that gives grossly inflated range figures.
The concept car includes a fully-automatic driving mode
A technology which VW is a clear leader in
The announcement comes one month after Volkswagen’s former CEO Martin Winterkorn was charged by U.S. regulators with defrauding investors during its massive diesel emissions scandal.
Speaking of that, they're already back to their old ways, trying to cheat the new WLTP standards. This time, the cheat is just the opposite - trying to make their emissions look bad, so that their reductions targets over the coming years will be less stringent. So they've been doing things like testing cars with depleted batteries and disabled engine start-stop systems to make the cars burn more and emit more.
Volkswagen has said it will boost electric vehicle production to 22 million over the next decade. It made fewer than 50,000 battery-only vehicles last year.
Please try harder than you've tried previously.
SUVs are an American niche market for the most part and as such they are uninteresting for the future of the EV. Whoever wins the electric car race and becomes the 'Android' of electric cars with a huge market share is the company or companies that can produce a slick small to medium sized electric family car with decent range, a decent set of features and that is cheap enough to be an affordable hit in China/India and other emerging economies, think Toyota Aygo/Yaris/Corolla. Also, I don't think consumers are going to care much about self driving in the near term at least it's an option most of them will be willing to dispense with. Tesla is a manufacturer of high end sports roadsters, luxury sedans and slightly less luxurious family cars who all have one thing in common, they are extremely overpriced. Tesla will become the Apple of the EV race because of that. The Andoroid(s) of this race, the ones who will dominate the car market in the future, are the ones who gun for the affordable car market that Toyota/KIA/Hyundai cater to, not the luxury segment that Tesla seems to have cornered. If I was going to bet money on who pulls off the Ford-T of the EV age I'd sure as hell not choose Tesla nor would I bet on VW/BMW/Benz/Toyota. It might be some smaller manufacturer from Europe, Korea or, and here is where I'd put most of my money,
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Annotated version
Volkswagen is planning to release
Immediately contradicted by the subsequent line that says "concept car". I'm sure they'll release "something" eventually.
a fully-electric SUV in China which could compete with Tesla’s Model X
Place your bets that like every single other "electric SUV" apart from the Model X, it's simply a moderate-sized 5-seater with "SUV styling".
The German automaker said Sunday the ID. ROOMZZ
I too name vehicles after letters that I draw in Scrabble.
will be unveiled at the upcoming Shanghai Auto Show and will be available in 2021
Don't strain yourself with the rush there, VW.
Volkswagen says the zero-emission vehicle can go approximately 450 kilometers (280 miles) before the battery has to be recharged.
Ignoring the constant stream of "actual range being vastly less than the promised concept range" vehicles that we've been getting from European automakers, China measures ranges on the laughably lax NEDC cycle that gives grossly inflated range figures.
The concept car includes a fully-automatic driving mode
A technology which VW is a clear leader in
The announcement comes one month after Volkswagen’s former CEO Martin Winterkorn was charged by U.S. regulators with defrauding investors during its massive diesel emissions scandal.
Speaking of that, they're already back to their old ways, trying to cheat the new WLTP standards. This time, the cheat is just the opposite - trying to make their emissions look bad, so that their reductions targets over the coming years will be less stringent. So they've been doing things like testing cars with depleted batteries and disabled engine start-stop systems to make the cars burn more and emit more.
Volkswagen has said it will boost electric vehicle production to 22 million over the next decade. It made fewer than 50,000 battery-only vehicles last year.
Please try harder than you've tried previously.
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Re:SAP...
With news like this...
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Re:Will never happens
That's nice of you to report in, That-One-Village-In-Germany-That-Does-Not-Have-Delays? http://www.handelsblatt.com/un...
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Re:Europe is jealous
According to the new European Commissioner for the Digital Economy, Germany’s Günther Oettinger, there would be no "break up and no expropriation" with him. Oettinger: Such measures would be "instruments of the planned economy, not the market economy". Only a more competitive Europe could recover lost markershare in the digital economy. Link: Keine Zerschlagung von Google (in German).
But he also suggested a EU-wide "Google Tax": New EU Digital Chief Floats Tough Anti-Google Regulations
"If Google takes intellectual property from the EU and works with it, the EU can protect this property and can demand a charge for it," Mr. Oettinger told the daily Handelsblatt, adding that such a law could be in place by 2016. -
Re:neither
Here is some info about Germany (use Google translate):
http://www.test.de/Deutsche-Bahn-Wie-puenktlich-fahren-die-Zuege-wirklich-1617492-2617492/
Note in particular that people reached only half the train connections without problems.
Here are some more news stories (these probably aren't the best ones to illustrate the problems, just some examples):
Try some comparisons between car and train routes:
Note that for trains, you usually lose a couple of hours due to scheduling: they don't run exactly when you need them to, and you need to leave an extra couple of hours to allow for delays and missed connections.
Trust me, I have traveled a lot on trains in Europe. It's great fun as a tourist when you don't have to worry about time or schedules; as a practical means of transportation, it sucks.
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Energy costs are rising also in Germany
I don't read German, but Google Translate does. Looks like energy costs have gone up by 57% in the past decade; taxes on energy have gone up 1000% in the last 15 years.
"The de-industrialization has already begun," Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger warned in an interview with the Handelsblatt.
steveha
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Re:Typical
Germany is still running an electricity surplus and is actually selling to France currently ( http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/trotz-atomausstiegs-deutschland-exportiert-strom-nach-frankreich/6183796.html ).
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Raising awareness works - example Germanyfrom TFA:
'What we really want to do is raise awareness, so that the other parties say 'bloody hell, they've got seven million votes this time out', or one million votes, or enough votes to make them care and seriously think about these issues.'"
In Germany, a recent poll showed a 2% support rate for the pirate party (Piratenpartei).
And lo and behold! Suddenly, politicians of other parties are discovering their love for the pirates' topics...
(links in German, and I'm too much a of a lazy ass to translate)
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Re:Umm.. why?
I was further doing some reading and here is something interesting:
http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/it-medien/die-angst-vor-der-totalen-ueberwachung;2434939;2
Einführen müssen die Filterstrukturen Internet-Provider ab 10 000 Kunden. Für kleinere Unternehmen wÃre der finanzielle Aufwand zu hoch. UniversitÃten und Ãffentliche Bibliotheken sind ausgenommen.
Ok translated... Any ISP with under 10,000 clients can ignore this, as well small companies, universities, and libraries...
TYPICAL GERMAN politics, come up with a screwy law, and make it even more screwy! So I guess what I can take from this is that child porn is ok to see at a university, but not a corporation or large ISP... Yeah that makes sense, really does...
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Re:Reason to love AmericaAbercrombie and Fitch once sued(1) a woman in Germany, who was selling off her private A&F clothes, using pictures she made herself.
While i cannot cite a link for the above, google produced this article. Basically, A&F sued people importing A&F-ware themselves and selling the stuff on ebay.
http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/abercrombie-fitch-saeubert-deutschen-markt;1019558(1) Technically she was not really sued, but IANAL, so i don't know the exact term.
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Another detailed article by german handelsblatt