[junaru]

> as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to meet the bosses of the country’s carmakers on Thursday in Berlin to discuss the woes of the struggling sector.

Consumers will definitely profit from that, there's no way they will tax Chinese imports even more, no way i tell's ya!

[LunaSea]

They will ask the EU to remove environmental protections like the end of new gas / diesel cars by 2035.

[raverbashing]

Yeah meanwhile China installs record breaking amounts of Solar and Nuclear

[ZeroGravitas]

Germany (and the EU generally) import 98% of their oil-derived products..

Before sanctions the leading import source was Russia.

EVs could have helped a lot more as China has demonstrated but people like the brum-brum noise and all the right-wing parties with mysterious ties to Russia and other fossil fuel producers didn't think they'd work for some reason.