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When we are looking at messaging about "the german car industry killing itself by insisting on keeping the internal combustion engine alive past 2030" or similar initiatives, we are looking right at this fault line.
German car makers have – maybe with the exception of BMW – understood that there is no choice of technology and that the battery electric car already won.
But there are financial interests outside of the car industry that used to be aligned with it and no longer are.
These interests are who is orchestrating the various campaigns to keep cars with internal combustion engines "alive", seed fear, uncertainty and doubt over heat pumps and generally try to sabotage the electrification of industry and household.
Public discussion and media commentar in Germany fail to make this distinction and hence almost all analysis we can read falls short of providing proper insight.