MrMakabar

Do not worry. Tesla is an American company and with high enough tariffs they will be able to keep the Chinese out of the market. That means the US can buy overly expensive low quality EVs along combustion engine cars, while the rest of the world goes to high end EVs.

Also keep in mind that Europe there are a lot more car companies selling EVs then just BYD and Tesla in Europe.

Germany elected a more left leaning government and they actually did pass some good climate legislation. That was aided by Putin cutting of fossil fuels to Germany as well, but the protests and public mood were certainly on the site of climate action. However the protests were having problems of bringing the same numbers on the street as before covid and the fossil fuel industry spend on a lot on busting the protests.

Then the far right really gained strength in Germany and that became the much more pressing issue, rather then climate change.

He is probably too old already.

Who needs voters, when you do not have elections?

Netherlands has 35.1% BEV

The direct route would be through NRW, but the one this train takes is going further south via Erfurt-Frankfurt-Strasbourg. Strasbourg has a proper hsr on the French site, which helps a lot. It technically would be faster to go via Cologne and Brussels, but that would cause a lot of problems.

For the current route the big missing section is between Mannheim-Frankfurt-Erfurt. There are plans for it, which are being pushed right now.

It is not just tariffs, but also the Saudis pushing oil prices down. They have the lowest production price, so lowering the global oil prices gives them market share. US oil production is the one to loose. However the EU is going with sanctions against Russia, trying to force them to cut first. They much rather see the US keeping their current level of oil production.

We will see, but low oil prices are good news. It means less money for lobbying. So the cheaper green alternatives gain market share.

China lacks the massive oil and gas reserves the US has. The only fossil fuel they have a lot of is coal and they do use that.

The regional service sucks to a large part due to a lack of capacity on German main lines. Regional trains and freight trains run at about the same speed, which is great for capacity. However high speed trains are faster and therefore need to overtake them. You need to plan for that, which require additional capacity. In other words, when you take ICE trains of the old main lines, you massivly improve regional rail as well.

There is also the Saarbrücken tram train, which goes to France.

For anybody wondering, why DB being able to meet minimum service is so incredible, it is rather simple. Both passenger and freight demand in Germany have grown over the last decades. However the government did rarely invest in new track or even repairs of old railway infrastructure. Basically Germany needs a high speed rail network parallel to the exisiting slower lines to meet demand, as well as some additional freight lines. Without that DB has no chance in hell to actually be a good rail provider.

So the fact that they can somewhat meet demand is an incredible achievement by DB.

Sounds like somebody wants Slow Food