• doben@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Well, in Germany VW (the second largest automobile manufacturer in the world) now is laying off a significant portion of their employees, closing factories and even selling them off to US/Israeli weapons manufacturers. Their head also already signaled VW is being open to switch to weapons manufacturing. Pretty sure other German brands are in similar peril.

    Traditional manufacturers are dead.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      They chose to actively ignore EV technology. Despite 80-100 years of manufacturing , they got overtaken by China in just 15 years.