Especially since most people won’t be able to charge at home.

53% of charges are done at home, 15% at work and 32% at public chargers. 34% charge their car almost exclusivly with local solar.

Those are home charging prices.

Ich kann dazu die Climate Change Litigation Database empfehlen. Es ist praktisch so, dass solang ein Land keine volle Diktatur ist, es auch Klimaklagen gibt.

Wenn man eine niedrige Rente bekommt, wird man vorher wahrscheinlich nicht genug verdient haben um sich selbst ein Eigenheim leisten zu können.

No, but it means that as soon as EVs and combustion engine cars cost the same, people will choose EVs. We are pretty close to that point.

Germany has had falling emissions for some years and there are a number of pretty good climate laws on the books. It is not enough, but it is not like nothing is happening.

An EV is at 15-20kWh/100km so with 0.3€/kWh we are talking 4.5-6€/100km. Average petrol car is at 7.7l/100km. With prices of 1.6€/l we are talking 12.3€/100km. So about twice as much as an EV for home charging. With fast charging it would be about the same. The electric motor being less problematic is also true against a combustion engine. It should last longer, if built properly.

Also the reason EVs are more expensive is that there is a lack of cheap batteries. We currently see a lot of factories being built. This means lower battery prices and therefore lower EV prices. Some of the offers of BYD and the like are already very good.

Especially since changing the law needs a qualified majority to do so. So 55% of the countries with 65% of the population voting for changing the law. As the article stated, not even the German government is currently willing to do so, as the social democrats want to keep it.

Many companies have expertise producing things, which are not needed at all in EVs. That means switching industries or let the company die and make as much money in the meantime as possible. Given how difficult it is to switch industries, many choose the later option. For them complaining is just logical.

Also oil companies.

Really bad idea. To be fair the German car industry is hit hard by it. Not as much the actual car makers, but the suppliers. When you produce say crankshafts moving to EVs is much harder. With falling car sales numbers in Europe and EVs taking market share they really have a problem. That btw is a big reason, why Germany has such a bad economy right now.

However EVs are the future and giving those companies a few more years is certain to doom the ones, which can survive. When you look at EV sales you find many German car companies doing pretty well. With the combustion engine industry in a death spiral, the lobbying work is going to decrease as well.

That is what neutral means…

Wenn ich mir die Friedrichsstraße in Berlin anschaue, stimmt das so nicht. Da hat man sehen können was der Impakt ist und der Wahlkampf war dennoch erfolgreich. Der Grund dafür dürfte die größe der Aktion und die lokale konservative Presse sein.

In Leipzig ist die einzige Tageszeitung relativ links. Von daher sind kleine Schritte, die keine lokale Gegenbewgung auslösen der schlauere Weg. Zwei Parkplätze weniger regt vielleicht die Straße auf, aber nicht die ganze Stadt. Es sei den die Presse macht Druck.

Reinstalling some blast doors in metro stations, parking garages and the like is not going to take 20years.

Es kommt sehr auf die lokale Situation an. In Leipzig ist es ja Bürgeriniative mit progressivem Stadtrat. Da sind es oft nur ein paar Poller, die man mal aufstellt. Das fliegt dann oft unter dem Radar der Autofreunde. Da ist ein Wow-Effekt eher hinderlich. Allerdings summiert sich soetwas auch schnell.

You do need to care for the elderly, but you also need to care for young people. Schools, kindergartens, universities and so forth cost a lot as well. As long as the life expectancy and fertility rate are stable, the population ends up with a stable dependency ratio. A below replacement fertility rate, just means that the population ends up shrinking.

As for funding the welfare state, the problem is GDP per capita. As long as that is stable in real terms, the problem becomes distributing the wealth. There are actually some good things in terms of GDP per capita with a shrinking population. Namely we still inherit the assets from previous generations. We can choose to the best housing, factories, infrastructure and so forth. Not only that, but we still have innovation, so a lot of our economies are still growing.

For Germany for example current UN predictions are at 30% of the population being retired starting around 2035 and until pretty much the end of the century. Currently it is 23%, so the impact is happening today. That is about what Japan has right now.

The AfD was never going to end up in government from the last election. They would have to try a three way coalition with the Greens as well. However such a coalition sucks for everybody and can not really produce the necessary change. Even the current one is less the popular in both parties.

That is especially bad with Germany being in a bad place already. The economy has problems as the massive car industry has to transition to electric and those cars require fewer workers. The baby boomers are starting to retire, which helps keep unemplyoment low, but also means less cheap workers and higher social spending. Trumps tariff chaos is horrible for an export power house like Germany. Then the war in Ukraine is too close for comfort, so weapons have to be given to Ukraine, which costs a lot. At the same time no longer buying Russian fossil fuels drives up energy prices. The obvious solution of going green means massive new investment as well, which costs a lot and it takes time. All while infrastructure is crumbling due to the government not wanting to go into debt.

The Palastine situation just sucks badly. Antisemitism accusation are a given, when you attack Israel and they land especially hard in Germany, given German history. So you end up with a very confused foreign policy. Offically calling for full support of Israel, while abstaining in the UN. Politicans being very clear about wanting to sell weapons to Israel, while at the same time blocking anything, which explodes to be sold to Israel for over a year now. Similar with UNRWA, cutting off aid and then resuming it a few months later and restarting that. Basically Germany is talking the big talk about support for Israel, due to being afraid of being called antisemitic, while half assing actual support of Israel. The problem being that even half assed support is still really unpopular globally and people look mostly at what is said, rather then what is being done.

The line for ages was that Germany would recoginze Palastine, if Israel does so. Obviously that is not going to happen.

Mit der jetzigen Unternehmenssteuer wird man kaum ein Bedinugsloses Grundeinkommen finanzieren können. Wenn die Unternehmen weniger als die Existenzgrundlage zahlen, wird aus der Besteuerung des Einkommens auch nicht genug Geld zusammenkommen.

Fakt ist halt, dass Arbeit sich lohnen muss und das heißt halt, dass man wenn man Arbeitet besser als das Existenzminimum leben muss. Mit dem Vorschlag wird das nichts.

Schweiz nicht Deutschland

Die Berliner Polizei freut sich doch, dass da ein Bürger ihnen bei der Arbeit geholfen hat.