Germany wants the EU to set tariffs on electric vehicles at a low level to avoid severe retaliation from Beijing.

Germany wants the EU to set tariffs on electric vehicles at a low level to avoid severe retaliation from Beijing.

Germany has launched an 11th-hour bid to avert a full-scale trade war between Europe and China, resisting French calls to hit Chinese electric vehicles with punitive duties.

With a decision by the European Commission imminent, both Paris and Berlin have ramped up their lobbying efforts — with conflicting messages on just how tough Ursula von der Leyen’s executive should get on Beijing.

The EU executive is expected to inform Chinese EV-makers on Wednesday of temporary duties resulting from its probe into unfair state subsidies. EU member countries would then vote this fall to confirm the duties — making it vital for von der Leyen to pitch them at a level that the bloc’s two heavyweights can live with.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    813·
    15 days ago

    Germany should spend more time on making their cars better instead of the over engineered, over priced garbage they are producing.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      104·
      15 days ago

      Yes VW, Audi, BMW, Mercedes are all definitely garbage. /s
      Absolutely the companies that make some of the best cars in the world, should make better cars. What a moronic comment!

      They are actually very attractive offerings too, I recently tried a BMW eDrive i4-40, it’s an absolutely amazing car. And VW has some pretty attractive prices IMO.

      • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        15 days ago

        You have no idea about cars or the repairs you have to do on them to make such a statement.

        It’s not 1990 anymore.

        Actually your entire tone makes me wonder if you aren’t the moron all long 🤔

    • Granixo@feddit.clEnglish
      3·
      15 days ago

      I can believe that with BMW, but every other German brand is literally top quality (as the rest of the EU).