this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
114 points (100.0% liked)

Buy European

6514 readers
439 users here now

Overview:

The community to discuss buying European goods and services.


Matrix Chat of this community


Rules:

  • Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.

  • Do not use this community to promote Nationalism/Euronationalism. This community is for discussing European products/services and news related to that. For other topics the following might be of interest:

  • Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.

  • No russian suggestions.

Feddit.uk's instance rules apply:

  • No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia.
  • No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
  • No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
  • Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
  • Do not spam or abuse network features.
  • Alt accounts are permitted, but all accounts must list each other in their bios.
  • No generative AI content.

Useful Websites

Benefits of Buying Local:

local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.

European Instances

Lemmy:

Friendica:

Matrix:


Related Communities:

Buy Local:

Continents:

European:

Buying and Selling:

Boycott:

Countries:

Companies:

Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:


Banner credits: BYTEAlliance


founded 5 months ago
MODERATORS
top 13 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 33 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I really hope their EVs don't turn out to be internal combustion with fudged testing capabilities. ;)

[โ€“] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago

Noooooooo! Demand for electric vehicles is falling! Companies are cutting back on production! Gas and ooooooiiiiilllllllll!!!!

[โ€“] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe if Iโ€™m very very good theyโ€™ll bring the electric GTI to the states.

[โ€“] tychosmoose@piefed.social 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Electric what now?

Didn't know what I was missing.

[โ€“] espentan@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Grand Touring Injection, but now it injects electricity!

[โ€“] Ptsf@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

It was just charging infrastructure and reasonable range designs that were needed all along?! Who could've seen that coming.

[โ€“] Szewek@sopuli.xyz 9 points 23 hours ago

"Gains in South America and Europe more than compensated for the expected declines in China and North America," said Marco Schubert, member of the extended VW Group Management Board.

In Germany, Volkswagen is a market leader with almost every second new electric car registered in Germany in the first half of the year from the company.

[โ€“] Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Can you turn off the phoning home yet?

[โ€“] pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago

Just like with phones, all you need to do is remove the battery

[โ€“] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Better, you can replace it with the open source OVMS

From what I'm seeing only the vw eUP has any traction in the ovms forums. Are there other places discussing and implementing ovms on cars I.e. the ID. Buzz?

[โ€“] Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

The prices are just off the walls these days though. I want a california but will not spend 85k on it. Same with the ID7 tourer.