The German car industry's political muscle | DW Documentary
The German car industry's political muscle | DW Documentary
The German automotive industry has long played a key role in the country’s prosperity. It employs hundreds of thousands and enjoys cozy relationships with politicians. But the COVID-19 crisis threw a wrench in the works. What’s next?
The prosperous German auto industry has long been lagging when it comes to innovating new automotive technologies. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the industry is turning to decision-makers for help.
But just how far will policymakers go to help the car companies? Arguing that the COVID-19 pandemic has hit them hard, the auto industry is demanding the postponement of stricter CO2 limits and a purchase premium for new vehicles. They maintain that nothing less than the prosperity of the whole country is at stake. But is Germany’s success really dependent on the auto industry? And how much blame does industrial policy bear for the failures of the automotive companies?
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20 years roflmao
Germany killed it’s auto industry 20 years ago when they decided to open dozens of joint venture factories in China and provided a century of knowledge to local partners that now are becoming competitors. Ultimately like it happened in many other industries the Chinese government will support Chinese owned companies over foreign owned ones regardless if they have their production located in China and, as it is already happening, they will begin to make the situation difficult for the foreign owned businesses until they leave while the German government will likely do nothing about it like they never done anything about the forced technology transfers and unbalanced trade rules.
Short term thinking is a curse for politicians as well as CEOs in the west as all the incentives are in short term profits.
German stands for arrogance.
Whoever embraces the Chinese market will win the victory. The European Union is faster than the Americans. It has negotiated a trade agreement with China and can enter the Chinese market with low tariffs. But now, the agreement has been abolished.
It’s real media behalf of indian media
I wouldn’t make any business dealings with China. They only care about the bottom line. Money and nothing else.
the german cars is the best automakers in the world i like the german cars quality the power the inovation and everything this is what i can call as the perfect automotive automakers
I think that Germany will come from behind and make some fantastic electric vehicles over time. German engineering is not to be underestimated. Of course I’m an optimist. But that saying that necessity’s the father of invention holds true here.
German and Japanese car makers deserve the coming kiss of death. Purposely damaging and fighting against electric cars comes with punishment.
I’m an American and I love DW !
Auschwitz Birkenau German Death Camp
I will always love German cars. They just work well in the Canadian climate. Solid and well engineered.
As ecotricity pointed out fossil fuel is a finite resource
This is such a left wing abomination
I understand their fears. Hope something good happens in the end.
I think that its crude, to jostle and joke with someone like Joan of Arc, forever, about casually in that crueler context, necessarily wasting – a woman’s – life.
So long as German cars continue at the cutting edge and stay ahead on reviews as they do, there will always be a place for them. China can undercut on cost but lacks ingenuity
Is social and environmental interests falling to the wayside.
I can’t believe I heard Encom tower during this documentary!!
The German car factories should start making boats and house boats. A Mercedes house-boat would be a dream. I would feel sad to die and leave it behind.
German needs nuclear power to reach less emissions
Pioneers of earth deterioration:
1.uk
2 EU
3.usa
4.japan
5.russia
6.china
I’d love to see DW host a parade of all automobiles currently made in Germany …,
One of the problems is that environmentalists are car haters. From my own experience, discussing this with them, they want personal transport to go. Certainly from city centres, even if these cars are green. We all should be clear about that, they do NOT care about the workers. Most of them are very elite people. To me, as a car guy, they are THE enemy!
Cars were a mistake.
How imcompetent and useless the eu is, only cares for their own interests when coming to the agreement
The solution is to reduce the big pollution like sea, rail and air transport. There is the biggest pollution. It is possible to give up mostly air and sea transport for the benefit of the international railway with electric locomotives.
Reducing pollution from small cars is more about education: Look for example, how many single persons are in the car during traffic and the rest of the seats from the car are empty? Do a law in that manner, (the single person can go with an electric car).
If electric cars are the future, please look at how much pollution occurs with the manufacture of a battery and its recycling afterlife, etc…
Solution:
International electric railway,
ban one person/combustion car and education
planting a tree/person
more clean energy
developing hydrogen engine
Attacking others without coming with real solutions is not a good thing. If your job allows you to do good, stop criticizing others and come with real solutions. Bann a thing and stoping there is not the solution. With this mental is already too late to do something. CANGE IT
they should all just put plastic bags over there kids heads if they make decision in regards to money and nit the enviroment
I can assure you that the Germans will make the best electric cars they already proven they are the best in any car. So stop with this nonsense catching up😂😂😂😂
Many Thanks Dw !
We have to give more importance to the secondary sector or blue collars.
Germany would be in trouble if they cannot find a way to make their battery on their own. Korean would not forever sell their batteries to Germans on affordable prices.
Germany is Europe’s Japan
Every country has its keyindustry, that has huge leverage in their respective governments. So I don’t think this something surprising.
I see Scotty Kilmer host of this Doc, "All plastic engine covering, over-engineered Endless Money Pitts!"
Cut jobs to reduce costs. Do you think the CEOs and shareholders are tightening their belts to save the automotive industry? HA!
The German car industry is changing the worlds minds about German integrity. Diesel gate is not the only example of the German OEMs acting like the mafia. Hundreds of millions of dollars given to fake environmental scams to stop Tesla from opening their German plant is the latest crime. You could have been producing the world’s most advanced, safest, and most environmentally benign automobiles in Germany with German workers, and largely German tech and design but instead you decided to once again act like sociopaths and criminals. So now Chinese produced Teslas out-sell corresponding VW models in Germany instead. Way to shoot yourself in the foot.
You will never catch Tesla, and they are obviously ethically superior to German competition. Instead of catching up to Tesla like they claim to be doing VW (the same company that supports the fake environmentalist that are tying Tesla up in inante red tape in Berlin with hundreds of millions of dollars in "donations") have been falling further behind Tesla in European market share itself. These could have been German produced Teslas. German Teslas which were going to be superior to the Chinese because of newer tech. Cheating once again, because you really can’t compete with Musk and company.
Your information is really nice
Germany is functioned by the engines.
German cars is one of the best, but where there elsewhere produce the car, they have big population with money ,trained workforce and so on.They will not move to other country, because it will be stupidity.It`s not like you can outsource programing job.
The nosy brand frustratingly beg because port geographically film despite a jolly dancer. motionless, ritzy porter
Car is a thing of the past. Suburbs and cities built depending on car users are already disasters. We need electric trains, trams and bicycles.
We need more Mercedes W124 300Ds please
There i something about career politicians who never held a real job that just makes me want to vomit
Coming to Paris from Luxembourg for a weekend – by train for 2 people – 260 EUR, by car – 50 fuel, 40 tolls, 50 parking – 140EUR. Car still means freedom.
8:50 she says, “It seems the government is in the pocket of the car manufacturers”. EU, America and the rest All corporatcracies. The environment suffers Japan is the car manufacturer that pushed the engineers to make the German engine more efficient. Never Europe or the Americas.
Germany is the CAR. Stand tall.
So, what is the West going to do if the likes of China dominate future economic industrial activity and developing nations like those of Africa miss out conventional technologies and move straight into the likes of renewables? (They have lots of sunshine in Africa). Will the West move increacingly into protectionist policies like those being practiced by Trump and now Biden. Trade sanctions, isolationism. The command led economy even, we know where that tends to lead, the reduction of liberty and the growth of the State! It’s classic Hegelian dialectic, swinging from one extreme to another, we’ve had free market neo liberalism, which in fact ended up being more like corporate plutocracy, it may just end up as yet another mechanism for supressing human freedom and empowering some form of elites.
DAIMLER WILL ALWAYS EXITS FOREVER
An excellent documentary! Thank you DW! Keep up the great work!