It's just insanity. This flip floping around doesn't help the automobile industries at all, the switch will come and instead of preparing for it they instead invest time and money to bribe politicians uh I mean lobbying.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2025
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โThe Chinese will not pauseโ: Volvo and Polestar bosses urge EU to stick to 2035 petrol car ban
(www.theguardian.com)
Both Volvo and Polestar are Chinese as far as ownership is concerned.
And both are mostly EV already, Polestar fully. I mean they're right but not really objective
It's not only Geely owned manufacturers saying this though. The ceo of Stellantis said the exact same thing a week ago. Companies that did their homework will make the deadline easily, whereas the laggards will suffer.
And then you have Volkswagen, who went full EV, screwed it up by half-assing it, backpedalled under shareholder pressure and is now at the forefront of this lobbying.
Is it necessary to be "objective" in this case?
It's not like the ICE manufacturing companies are any more objective.
Sometimes there's just a right and wrong, and we don't need 50/50 objectivity to see what's what.
Volvo and Polestar are Swedish companies. Once a time Volvo was owned by Ford. The company was as Swedish with an American owner as with a Chinese owner.
Yes, please race to see which country electrify and transition away from fossiel fuel the fastest.
Yes! We should stick to it! Its the german car industries fault for not keeping up. Not our problem! We shouldnt pay the price for it!
Dear Swedes, please save us.
Dear Chinese*
Volvo and Polestar are owned by the Chinese.
The article is explicitly about the company CEO's objections to the change of course in Brussels. Neither of them are Chinese.
Anyhow, if it's the Chinese that save us from shooting ourselves in the foot, that's fine too.
Okay so I read it too now and you're right in that it's the Swedes calling for the EU to be sensible, but it's still the Chinese saving us from ICEs essentially - because they get to give Volvo (and Polestar) directions and besides some of the newer models are shared platforms with their other makes too.
Ah well, I can't read the article, I don't have a Guardian subscription.
Huh. I don't either but can read it just fine.
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Use reader mode, the popup magically disappears.
Oh, thanks! Thought everyone had fixed that already.
I would rather see the Union succum than to see it a vassal of china