DW is so shallow. This is why Germany is falling behind

Don't blame China for German carmakers' slow transition to electric vehicles

German cars are not fighting against Chinese cars, they’re fighting against EVs, including Tesla. And the fight is not in German manufacturer‘s favor.

I sold my Porsche and get a BYD U8.

WHY demonise them? EV + solar = planet saved!!! their GOV was smart to support the future tech and this should be celebrated. I really despise seeing subjective reporting from DW!

This story made it sounds like without the Germans, China will still be in the stone age. The reality is that China will forge a path forward even if Germany was not there in the first place. Given long enough peace, China will prosper and thrive like so many times in history, this time is no different.

The fall of Western Autoimakers.. Here in Manila we are excited and more admired of those Chinese EV made vehicles like BYD

Germany fears its automotive sector will suffer the same fate of its once booming solar sector and rightfully so.

How about Tesla in China. Tesla is biggest competitor with Germany car companies in China.

What a dump take at the end. Any investment in any country for a critical sector you are dealing with that country's government rules and regulations whether you like it or not. Also, why would any country not use their economy to get up in the chain of production and self-reliance.

DW REV totally ignored what makes German products competitive in the world market. Aside from quality of products, it's cheap Russian energy. the destructions of NS1 & NS2 and the Inflation Act changed all that. German funds and manufacturing headed to US and China to survive. German products manufactured in Germany with high priced LNG won't be competitive anytime soon.

Go China🇨🇳💪 From your Brother, Indonesia🇮🇩

German auto makers are already doomed. And they know it…

I think one of the reasons German car manufacturers fleeing to China is the lack of cheap energy from NS1 and NS2. Tbh, It surprised me how ready Germany is to fall.

The topic is on cars and the first thing they show is military. The G7 are masters of economic coercions themselves.

China is far ahead of Germany!

The Germans always mistakenly think that it is the Chinese and they learned the car manufacturing technology. This is German narcissism. In fact, China's own development of automobiles began in 1950. In 1958, China began to produce its own brand of "Hongqi" cars.

in previous years, german car companies earn tens of billions dollars every year in china, German media said that these companies are too dependent on chinese market, if i can get so much money from others, i would be glad to be dependent on these persons, today, German car OEMs face great challenges due to your own slow movement and now you can it threat, so either way, China is bad per your narrative, interesting...

what is Tawian have to do with your automotive supremacy?...why can't DW just do topic without mentioning china treat,Tawian invasion?

Where would German Companies go? India? lol. Indians can even barely fund basic Infrastructures and average purchasing power of Indian is still very minuscule compared to CHINA. Besides, India has its own domestic car companies and they prefer those cheap affordable cars. Southeast asia, same case with India and not that huge market actually vs CHINA. Africa and Latin America? They prefer affordable cars. The future of german companies is very dark. And this goes to blame their govt for blinding the side eye and still following US hegemony despite the fact that US is constantly trying to de industrialize Europe itself. LOL...

Such a hawkish documentary. Showing so much army and cannons as though there is an active war going on.

China is 1.4 billion ppl, I belive it is still in the beginning if China gets a bit bigger it will be as big as Jpana S Korea and USA and Germany and France and Britain and Canada and Australia and Netherlands and Italy combined, I achtuly think China is very underrated and it has a bright future just like elon musk said China will be at least 2 times economically bigger than USA or 3 times at most, so let them invest more in Scince and let the competition be more fierce they are very strong and we should challenge them even more.

Growing up, my family had multiple cars from the VW group including VW, Skoda, and Audi. But since my mom had an Accord, the only car we buy now is Japanese.

Dw never drop its arrogance and sense of superior ,as always!

Progress comes from competition just like in sports competition, the winner can be from any country. All the sports participants learn from one and other. Europeans learnt from China in early centuries about metal casting, printing and navigation and paper making. Now China can run faster than Germany , then Germany has to learn from China to compete. Germany cannot afford to stay still not to innovate and improve.

Any Indian watching this, our competition should be with China, not Pakistan. The Chinese have improved leaps and bounds in almost everything even though we both started our journey together as dirt poor nations. We should observe and learn from them. Anyway congrats to the Chinese, you guys deserve this success.

It's so odd every piece DW makes about China has to include its military parade.

German automobile sector will now use DW to say that German is no.1🤣

لماذا دوماً القناة تحاول شيطنة الصين لم تعد هذة القناة محايدة

Tesla even beats German in their home turf 😂😂😂😂😂

If you have competitive product, you will survive the competition. But without the Chinese market, it is impossible to roll out competitive products, especially for EV cars.

Unbelievable biases and Hypocrisy ; BYD Have struggled in the market More then 20 years ; Nowadays they take the lead by constantly investing and spend more then 20 years in R&D ,and They dare to take the risk to bet on EVS . and finally it paid off . Currently The war ignite right now , Competition is good for customers . We hope all company embrace for Competition .

So you are blaming the competition, lol.

German auto companies have increased their investment in China and have in-depth cooperation with Chinese auto-related companies. Now the biggest decline in sales in China is Japanese cars, not German cars.

China uses economic influence as a weapon? Say that about yourself first and we can have a conversation

Watching DW is like listening to any American news outlet who emphasise mainly one risks and threats without acknowledge their own shortcoming. Just like other countries, Chinese work very hard to improve life and strive to success. If China does things better these is because they have invested and learned a lot from others.

I thought that Germany lost that battle to Japan long time ago.

Chinese will not leave Mercedes-Benz behind because BAIC and Geely own almost 20% in Mercedes-Benz

German companies had a long time to start seriously inovate and transition to electric cars, but they preferred to stay ( and some still prefer) to keep on their old polluting and high maintenance cars. Their lack of investment and interest in programming and electronics didn't help at all. I dislike chinese politics but on this one they were right and their companies were amazing in moving forward without excuses

auto industry is a game between us and china,nothing to do with german,german is not a player anymore

WHY it have to be "VS" ??

The first thing the video shows about China is the military..

quite strangely, Germany says its most important martket is a risk...

DW is getting roasted in the comments section 😂😂

😂😂Germans used to laugh at Tesla and China electric cars.

The flood gates of cheap and high-quality Chinese EVs are opening wide while German auto manufacturers and unions are debating the transition to EV technology. This is looking more and more to be a repeat of what happened to the British auto industry in the 1970s.

Yi loong ma is already built new gigafactory in Shanghai 😂

what is the music used in the video ? anyone knows?

Mainland China and Taiwan are not neighboring countries. As a serious media, please don't make mistakes on common sense issues. Mainland China and Taiwan are two regions in a state of civil war, and both regions are regions of China.

Opel will be happy with this fact, but also sad because none will buy them in comparison to the era when even a few people chose Opel cars except majority Opel cars are either Astra or Corsa.

Don't really care, whomever makes the best products with the best offering price wins the customers.

Not just Germany, Japan is lagging behind too

I watched the same topic from CNBC, the EV battle between China and USA......

U blew up ur own Pipelone from Russia thus causing ur car prices to soar.... Who's fault is that?

When you know that Mercedes almost do 50% of their sales in China and that Chinese people starts to slowly discard German cars towards their national car makers, that are now almost as well built (or better) than german cars, yeah, German car industry is in deep trouble.

The United States often says that China has a war risk, which is the means it uses to cope with the competition with China

Thank you

Thank you China for making nice car more affordable. here in DW all are double standard and racism

The name of the country Taiwan and four other islands is “Republic of China”, and their constitution and map includes mainland China.

In my country (Europe) German car are still in the top 10 but top 3 are still French brands 😊

Now you want to copy from them but they West hate when China learn from them 😅

As a German, I hope German car makers (besides Opel) go under. Terrible, unethical business model. Extensive lobbying and tampering with public opinion.. And completely outdated engineering. It wouldn't be a loss for humanity.

I think German companies are able to turn more to the States and try to sell more cars there by beating the Japanese companies. There are no risks.

Which businss has. No risk?

It is just like TBM......they have surged ahead German makers with price ( 50 % cheaper ),quality and services (7/24 live online technical service) beating them in export market hands down.

Great news!!❤

Germany is doomed one way or another

Just compete. All will have their own share.

40 years ago, the German automakers didn't have risky bet at all in China.

The biggest threat to German car makers is Tesla, is Elon Musk, who can define the EVs industry now and future...It so sad that you can't realised this fact until today...it also partially explained why German car makers are doomed.

Mercedes S class car OS vs NIO ES6 OS => Nokia 1610 vs iPhone 14

When I heard "French carmakers as Stellantis", I thought about how much Italy is disappearing from the industrial scene. Does the world really think that Stellantis is only French if it was created by an Italo-American AND French group? 🤔

EV is a revolution in how cars is made . German n Japan hv put huge long term investment n no willing to switch to EV as profit margins r way higher generally in ICE with crazy amount of parts needing overpriced maintenance few years down the road. EV is way simpler for a basic car .

In Apple we used to mention that “what got you to where you are is not enough to keep you there”. This applies to German car companies too. The arrogance and hubris has brought them to this point, not China. Apparently India is one market they could dominate but they have their head way up their a… and are likely to miss that one too.

Had a Beemer once. It really sucks. Always in the shop🙄 my wife bought a byd. It's dope especially the tech software👏

China is in the drivers seat, no pun intended

More videos like this and I am sure Germany will lose even more market share to the domestic and American car makers. There is truth in the video but the tone is full of arrogance.

If invest in china is an increasing risky business, why the German manufactures are doubling down on investing in China? DW is talking rubbish.

It's no like someone's pointing a gun at you to go to China. It's no like anyone over there will stop you from leaving either.

Germany and Europe in general is lagging behind compared to Japan, S. Korea and China when it comes to electronics and software systems. This did not happed yesterday, things are this way for decades and when cars started to include more and more electronics, and tend to rely less on mechanical systems, this problem is starting to get the attention from the general public. Europe needs to invest a lot into this and genuinely do a deep and humble study to figure out 1. Why European/German car electrics fall apart after a few years while Japanese electronics hold up (like super complex Toyota Prius) 2. Why East Asian softwares (car infotainment systems) feel much modern, things are laid out rationally utilising advanced tech while European/German cars' infotainment systems feel like they are still in dark ages. I am not insulting anyone, this is a reality Germany (my childhood hero car country) has to wake up to.

Maybe Germany should begin by making their internet working and get rid of the so beloved telefax and postal letters😅

Who are u going to blame for the deindustrialisation strategy that resulted in shutting down of german auto industry?

Nobody Wants Electric Cars here in germany. We Even haven‘t enough power to recharge 😂

DW, this is not colonial period era anymore so stop blaming other non white countries for everything

EV is a disrupter. Everyone has to adjust to it. The process is going to be painful.

watching this "news", is like watching horse cart manufacturer complaining about ford stealing their tech and replacing them

Don't GO to china if you want talk about democracy , not every country most practice democracy and why bring Taiwan issues Into auto businesses?

Retreat, keep improving your product and wait.

In future, these German brands will either go out of business or be owned by China. I can see the day coming when Mercedes is a Chinese-owned brand (like Volvo and MG)

So Germany victimizing itself because the student surpassed the master.

german car makers already lost the biggest market. now they hve to fight for their own market - europe - against the chinese. or let the eu set high tarifs. and we didn't even mentioned tesla.

German car lack of karaoke app? Seriously baseless and subjective imagination. Even the German documentary tries to ignore the key problem. The German EV cars have the lowest battery density compared to the others and lack connectivity thinking. They are still hoping consumer buy their cars because of their brand, but VW can't even compete with Tesla. neither the quality nor the user experience.

China car manufacturers need to focus in reliability and good after sale service in order to win over the consumer in the long run. Fancy features are not enough as consumers are not stupid.

Reminds me of the American car manufacturers in the 70’s losing sales to the better value and more reliable Japanese cars.

just control battery

BGM is terrible.

It no longer makes sense to the Chinese to buy expensive German premium EV's from Benz, BMW and Audi. German car industry will only decline.

Realy I like this video

It’s too late. VW, BMW and Daimler are going bust.

It is not just German car makers, Toyota is in a similar situation...