German auto summit tomorrow.
The sole focus on the EU combustion engine phase-out, which is 10 years away, is baffling because German cars have a demand problem today
Berlin worries a new EV subsidy scheme would be fiscally too expensive.
But demand-side support is a fiscal no-brainer here.
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08.10.2025 12:30 — 👍 87 🔁 28 💬 7 📌 13
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death.
"A lot of factors contributed to this, but speed limits are one of the most important"
yle.fi/a/74-20174831
30.07.2025 17:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great and balanced thread on the implications of the US-EU deal for the European automotive sector - including all the loose nuts and bolts.
29.07.2025 19:45 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
What is so maddening about this: MAGA Republicans publicly argued that the US needed to onshore manufacturing and they proposed an ill-conceived tool to do so: tariffs.
All the while they had a successful policy in place to onshore green manufacturing. They are now repealing this policy.
22.05.2025 21:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Basic to the Constitution is habeas corpus, the notion that the government cannot seize your body without a legal justification for doing so. If that does not hold, then nothing else does."
15.04.2025 16:22 — 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Lieblingssatz aus dem Koalitionsvertrag bisher: "Auch die Meere sehen wir als digitalen Chancenraum."
09.04.2025 18:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trumpists want to argue for a future-world that doesn't yet exist, in which the tariffs create a perfect equilibrium for US growth. But the tariff plan announced yesterday does exist. We can read it. It does not make sense and is not defensible on its own terms.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
03.04.2025 22:12 — 👍 397 🔁 94 💬 18 📌 12
Trump will offensichtlich globale Degrowth-Politik.
03.04.2025 06:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Man muss das Schlimmste für möglich halten
Immerhin nicht zu jeder Zeit und überall
"Das ist mir neulich erst so richtig bewusst geworden: Dass es fast nichts gibt, was Trump und die Leute in seinem Umfeld nicht sagen oder tun. (...) Man muss, so ist das leider, mittlerweile das Schlimmste für möglich halten."
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08.03.2025 01:19 — 👍 352 🔁 119 💬 28 📌 29
Gerhard Schröders Agenda 2010.
Angela Merkels Flüchtlingspolitik 2015.
Friedrich Merz' gelöste Schuldenbremse.
Grundlegende politische Veränderung ist meist dann möglich, wenn die Partei sie durchsetzt, welche sonst Widerstand organisieren würde - der dadurch gesellschaftlich demobilisiert wird.
04.03.2025 20:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Leader of the Free World und daneben Trump und Vance.
28.02.2025 18:40 — 👍 615 🔁 120 💬 12 📌 1
It makes me feel better personally as a political scientist but worse as a citizen that even @adamprz.bsky.social is struggling to understand the radical transformation of the American political system. Must read Substack.
19.02.2025 17:16 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Carl Schmitt, 1.8.1934:
"Der Führer schützt das Recht vor dem schlimmsten Mißbrauch, wenn er im Augenblick der Gefahr kraft seines Führertums als oberster Gerichtsherr unmittelbar Recht schafft."
Donald Trump, 15.2.2025:
"He who saves his Country does not violate any Law."
15.02.2025 23:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The IMF estimates that Europe’s internal barriers are equivalent to a tariff of 45% for manufacturing and 110% for services. [...] trade across EU countries is less than half the level of trade across US states. As activity shifts more towards services, their overall drag on growth becomes worse."
14.02.2025 22:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wie hoch ist wohl foresight von normalen Haushalten bei Investitionsentscheidungen wie Heizungstausch oder Autokauf und damit Wirksamkeit von BEHG/ETS2, wenn selbst Spitzenkandidaten bei der Bundestagswahl bei Belastung und Entlastungsbedarf von CO2-Preisen um eine Größenordnung danebenliegen? 🤔
09.02.2025 23:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WEF-/Klaus Schwab-Wahnvorstellungen sind jetzt eher en vogue.
08.02.2025 23:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Carney says he'll scrap the carbon tax, introduce green incentive program if he becomes leader | CBC News
Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney says he will abandon his party's consumer carbon tax and replace the policy with an incentive program that rewards Canadians for making green choices.
One of the few countries with a national carbon tax -- one that rebates to taxpayers, the way carbon tax proponents want -- is getting ready to scrap it in exchange for a system of incentives. The *liberal party* is proposing this.
This settles the debate over the political economy of a Ctax, no?
03.02.2025 21:01 — 👍 114 🔁 15 💬 17 📌 1
Fantastischer, jährlicher Must Read zum globalen Stand der Dekarbonisierung.
Man verliert sich manchmal in Detailfragen und im Tagesgeschäft, diese Folien helfen Entwicklungen einzuordnen.
02.02.2025 08:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One thing important to understand about the CA/MX tariffs is that while overall impact is likely to be modest in terms of inflation and output, they’ll have extremely concentrated negative effects in specific sectors. Autos are the best example given how many times parts cross those borders.
01.02.2025 15:26 — 👍 338 🔁 45 💬 12 📌 11
Stromerzeugung aus Kohle so niedrig wie vor 67 Jahren!
Die Bruttostromerzeugung aus Braun- und Steinkohle lag 2024 bei ca. 108 TWh. Das hatten wir zuletzt im Jahr 1957.
www.energy-charts.info/downloads/St...
24.01.2025 09:41 — 👍 293 🔁 98 💬 13 📌 13
I really hope everyone understands what is going on with Elon and Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is one of our last remaining bastions of evidence-based consensus reality.
The MAGA narrative is fundamentally threatened by evidence-based fact, and Wikipedia is a repository of evidence-based fact.
22.01.2025 03:24 — 👍 2912 🔁 1044 💬 50 📌 32
Handelsblatt
Ein Zurückrudern bei der E-Mobilität würde besonders die Produktionsstandorte in Ost-🇩🇪 hart treffen, die in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten mühsam aufgebaut wurden.
👉 Das Aufheben des Verbrenner-Verbots wirkt wie die Botschaft „Kauft jetzt bloß keine e-Autos!" 👈
hbapp.handelsblatt.com/cmsid/100100...
20.01.2025 12:16 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
Another fun statistic: China installed more solar power in 2024 (277 GW) than had been installed globally and cumulatively until 2015 (227 GW).
21.01.2025 10:34 — 👍 43 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
16.01.2025 19:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📈 After months of research, our Bruegel European Clean Tech Tracker is now equipped with an interactive map visualising investments into the manufacturing of solar panels, batteries and EVs.
[To use it, just go to: Highlights -> BETA Bruegel Investment Monitor]
www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...
06.01.2025 10:57 — 👍 66 🔁 25 💬 4 📌 1
Busse haben ausgedieselt
Bei Bussen im öffentlichen Nahverkehr setzt sich der Batterieantrieb durch. Er bringt auch bei dem heutigen Strommix schon einen Klimavorteil.
Bei Bussen im öffentlichen Nahverkehr setzt sich der Batterieantrieb durch. Er bringt auch bei dem heutigen Strommix schon einen Klimavorteil. Von Wasserstoffbussen halten Verkehrsunternehmen und Hersteller dagegen eher wenig. www.klimareporter.de/verkehr/buss...
02.01.2025 06:53 — 👍 52 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 1
Die Kohlendioxidemissionen der deutschen Stromerzeugung lagen 2024 nach ersten Hochrechnungen bei 152 Millionen Tonnen, 11,1 Prozent niedriger als 2023 und 58% niedriger als zu Beginn der Datenerhebung 1990.
energy-charts.info/charts/co2_e...
01.01.2025 08:46 — 👍 817 🔁 280 💬 20 📌 18
Ob Silvester oder Straßenverkehr: Deutsche Leitkultur ist es nur, wenn es knallt und Feinstaub erzeugt.
01.01.2025 21:50 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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