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Originally Posted by Lobb
I think you'll find the leglisators 'direct' the automakers. Big Green political presence in Germany.
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And the people direct the legislators. If the legislators are leading the country into a brave new green future, then the people must want it in some form or another. And that's great - those countries and their pioneering populous can be ahead of the curve. Kudos to them.
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Remember what happened to Kodak when they buried their heads in the sand and ignored digital photography.
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All major German automakers have electric vehicles for sale today, so clearly there is no head burying going on. As I've noted in other discussions, what is happening right now is that people are mistaking the relatively slow rate of EV adoption for automakers not building what people want. Instead, what's actually going on is that automakers are doing exactly what the people want - slowly introducing electric vehicles to those ready for them. If everyone wanted an EV then Tesla would have 50 million preorders for the Model 3, not 500,000, and all major automakers would be building millions of EVs to accommodate the huge imbalance between supply and demand.