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Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume told reporters that producing a majority of cars in Germany before exporting them all over the world "doesn't work anymore."

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[–] Jajcus@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Chinese manufacturers can make cars in China too, easier an cheaper, especially after such 'technology transfer' (they learn a lot manufacturing for someone else). And then the western companies cry about 'unfair competition'.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And Tesla already walked right into that one. They produced their cars in China, starting up an ecosystem for EV parts, and that gave dozens of new Chinese car manufacturers the means to start up to become cheaper and more innovative. Now Tesla's sales are dropping and dropping there.

So of course Volkswagen is there to say "we can do that too".

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

They probably did the math on letting China copy them now or over the course of a few years.

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