• Onno (VK6FLAB)
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    11511 months ago

    From the article: “He believes that the current regulations are too rigid and that the focus should be on creating a sustainable and profitable business model for the automotive industry.”

    In other words, fuck the environment, our profits are more important.

    • tb_
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      5311 months ago

      I can’t run my business without destroying the environment 🥺👉👈

    • @Saleh@feddit.org
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      3511 months ago

      It goes further than that:

      “We have been unwilling and incompetent to innovate and adapt to changes. Instead of catching up on innovation, we demand the public to suffer from it and subsidize or profits.”

      The tightening of emission standards is continuous process and the requirements are known for many years in advance.

  • Sabre363
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    4711 months ago

    In other words, we should triple all fines and implement a 10% penalty every single day they go unpaid or disputed before these worthless greedy cunts literally cook us all alive on our own fucking planet.

    Or maybe we should just dust off the ol’ guillotine

  • acargitz
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    3611 months ago

    I call for the Mercedes-Benz CEO to go fuck himself.

  • Nougat
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    3411 months ago

    “That thing we’re not supposed to do? Just let us do it.

  • shoulderoforion
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    2011 months ago

    Mercedez Benz used my Grandmother as slave labor in Auschwitz to make their airplane engines. Mercedez Benz shouldn’t even exist anymore.

  • kubok
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    1711 months ago

    And that, dear kids, is why the European car industry is failing.

  • magnetosphere
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    1511 months ago

    Källenius emphasized the need for flexibility within the European Green Deal…

    Flexibility is a luxury we can no longer afford. If Mercedes can’t adapt, it deserves to die.

  • @MeisterLemmpe@lemmynsfw.com
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    1211 months ago

    The funny thing is, it doesn’t even matter. Either they transform into an EV company or they die with the declinining ICE market.

    • RubberDuck
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      111 months ago

      But all that fine money can till then be paid to the shareholders you silly goose.

  • qyron
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    911 months ago

    No. Go away, spend the money, do the research, build better cars. In fact, since we are at, try and make a car for the modern age of mobility.

    • @bstix@feddit.dk
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      211 months ago

      Mercedes already has some very nice EVs with very long ranges. They’re far ahead of the competition, but they also cost 10 times more. You can litteraly buy 10 other EVs or a friggin mansion for the same as one Mercedes.

      • qyron
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        611 months ago

        We don’t need more luxury cars. We need good quality, affordable, cars.

        If made in Europe, even better.

  • @nebulaone@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I dont give a fuck about Mercedes Benz, but “arenaEV” does not seem like an unbiased source.

  • Gsus4
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    14 months ago

    He talks like the reason for EU cars to be in deep shit isn’t because they refused to acknowledge and adapt to a new reality and innovate of their own accord well in advance without being forced.