By P Gosselin on 13. July 2024
VW announces 1000 layoffs at large electric-vehicle plant in East Germany as demand slips and market turbulence persists Blackout News here reports that Volkswagen is planning to cut another 1,000 jobs by the end of 2024 at its factory in Zwickau, Germany. The demand for electric vehicles (EVs) remains weak and turbulent. The news is […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. July 2024
Green energies in turmoil…projects being postponed, scaled back… Europe’s largest green energy producer drastically reduces expansion plans for wind and solar energy Europe’s green energy projects are in the doldrums. Photo: P. Gosselin Europe’s leading green energy producer, Statkraft, is drastically scaling back its plans for new wind and solar power plants – due to […]
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By P Gosselin on 29. June 2024
The long road to green hydrogen By KlimaNachrichten An article on NDR German public broadcasting clearly conveys the dimensions of hydrogen. It reports on a planned factory for green hydrogen in Neumünster. A hydrogen factory with an output of 50 megawatts corresponds to the output of ten wind turbines, which means that the output of […]
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By P Gosselin on 21. June 2024
By KlimaNachrichten Claimed revolutions in battery technology are somewhat symptomatic of how the media work and fail. Japanese company TDK reports progress in battery technology. The company’s new batteries are said to have an enormous energy density, said to increase by an incredible factor of 100. That would indeed be a sensation; a cell phone […]
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By P Gosselin on 16. June 2024
Back to fossil fuels! The figures for the registration of new electric cars in Germany are looking increasingly awful. In May 2024, the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) reported that it had registered only 29,708 vehicles with electric motors. May e-car sales in Germany plummet more than 30% compared to a year earlier. AI image […]
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By P Gosselin on 14. June 2024
In a surprising move, Volkswagen announced it plans to invest 60 billion euros in the development of new combustion engines as confidence in electric mobility plummets in Germany and elsewhere. Chat GPT AI generated image Strategy adjustment “This change in strategy shows that the transition to electromobility is progressing more slowly than expected,” reports Germany’s […]
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By P Gosselin on 9. June 2024
The Deputy Leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union Jens Spahn warns that the current socialist-green government is leading the country into a “green fairy tale world” and sharply citicizes the country’s the nuclear phase-out. CDU deputy leader, Jens Spahn. Image cropped here. In an interview with on Deutschlandfunk radio, he said: “It was a green […]
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By P Gosselin on 2. June 2024
Many Germans regret their purchase or lease of an e-car and Germans overall are increasingly unwilling to consider them. Citing an article published in the online Merkur.de, Blackout News reports: “Half of German e-car owners regret their purchase or lease”. Apparently German e-car owners are disappointed due especially to “rising electricity prices”. Recently we reported […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. May 2024
Wind energy is an environmental destruction machine, warns veteran center-left columnist. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist block satellite countries in 1989, the West stood in awe, amazed by the environmental and economic wasteland left behind by the inefficient collective socialist system. But since then, green radicals have taken over and […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. May 2024
Der Spiegel reports: Germany e-car industry is a crisis headed for a catastrophe. New Tesla unsold cars now being parked in an old airfield. Germany’s 2030 e-car target now a lunatic fantasy Sales of e-cars in Germany are plummeting, signaling more trouble for the country’s move to a green society. Overall, for Q1 2024, EV […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. May 2024
The “greener” Germany gets, the bloodier its economy becomes. How much can an economy bleed before it dies? Since Germany has become hostile to industry and its Green Revolution has made energy prices among the world’s highest, it’s no wonder that the country’s economy is hemorrhaging economically. Companies are shutting down and moving out. Foreign […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. April 2024
There’s been a drastic drop in the registration of new electric cars in Germany as sales of the “clean” electric cars have slumped nearly 30% compared to a year earlier, reports Germany’s online Blackout News here. Also: Germany’s transportation minister, Dr. Volker Wissing, threatens weekend driving ban (Fahrverbot) in order to meet climate targets! The […]
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