German new electric car registrations plummet 27.5% in 2024… “Gasoline dominates” – Is Watt surprised by this?

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Author: P. Gosselin

How is Germany’s Green New Deal going? Not good at all.

First of all, Germany has been in recession for almost two years – largely due to the policies of Economy Minister Robert Habeck (Green Party), who, by the way, has no education in economics, business or finance. This guy just doesn't know what he's doing.

Second, German energy prices are among the most expensive in the world, and German electricity supplies are more unstable than ever. Germany is currently in the midst of a rapid deindustrialization chaos.

Electric cars cannot be sold

Blackout News quoted data from the Federal Motor Carrier Administration (KBA) as reporting that another indicator that the Green New Deal is seriously faltering: sales of new electric vehicles plummeted by 27.5%. “There were only 380,600 newly registered electric vehicles. Compared with the previous year, this was a decrease of 27.5%.

According to Blackout News, diesel vehicles even lead pure electric vehicles, reaching 17.2%. “These figures show how far Germany is from the government's electric vehicle targets. According to the KBA, there will be only 1.4 million electric vehicles on the road by the beginning of 2024/25, while the target is about 15 million by 2030.

Given the dire numbers, EV proponents would naturally call for more subsidies to entice consumers to opt for electric vehicles and higher taxes to punish those who refuse to cooperate in buying diesel or gasoline-engined cars, which are more reliable and cheaper.

The future of electric vehicles remains bleak

So what does the future hold? This will of course depend on the outcome of the upcoming national elections on 23 February. The (fake) conservative CDU/CSU currently leads the polls (29%) and is expected to win. But a new government under German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is likely to continue Angela Merkel's disastrous green policies, albeit more slowly than the current socialist Green government under Olaf Scholz.

Resistance mounts, AfD grows

However, Germany's neoconservative liberal Alternative for Germany party, led by the charismatic Alice Weidel, is steadily closing the gap (22%) and today there is even the possibility of a major upheaval at the end of February! Momentum is clearly on their side. Elon Musk calls the Alternative for Germany “Germany's last hope.”

While a victory for the anti-Green New Deal AfD may not mean a chancellorship and therefore a takeover of power, it would be another major setback for the increasingly unpopular Green movement.

To make matters worse for the German green movement, President Trump will definitely drive down U.S. energy prices, further exacerbating the lack of competitiveness of the German economy. Germany needs to wake up from its green fantasy.

All in all, the next four years don't hold much promise for Germany and its faltering green movement. Authoritarian measures will certainly be necessary to achieve the stated goals.

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