Comments by "Michael Nurse" (@michaelnurse9089) on "DW News" channel.

  1. They can't. They lack the battery technology because they refused to invest in it. Only America and China have invested enough into battery technology to compete in this space.
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  2. Check your facts. They are now cheaper to buy than ICE. And 3x cheaper to run. In China EV sales have passed 50%.
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  3. That is not so bad. After WW1 was far, far worse.
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  4. It fixes it for VW pensioners. Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
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  5. Since WW1 major wars have largely been 'out of control' already. You are right of course, that takes it up another notch.
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  6. US Airforce drones use max stealth technology. They look like small B2 bombers. Small things have very limited range.
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  7. China is ramping solar panels and batteries. No Russian oil needed.
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  8. So slow. Probably the Air Force by 2030. Probably the Conventional Army by 2040.
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  9. So pretty though...
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  10. In WW2 nuclear weapons were used to secure a 'diplomatic advantage' over Japan.
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  11. In a nutshell - US military companies soak up all excess taxpayer money and invest it into these systems. A full 50% of the population actively and vocally supports this (GOP) and the other 50% support it silently (Democrats). China and Russia not much different. This is how the Cold War happened, ditto for WW2, WW1 and all the wars before.
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  12. It depends. If your hostile neighbor is the one doing the developing - the sill 100% never launch a nuke at your on a 1st strike basis - because the rest of the World will retaliate. On the other hand, if they invade you with these things only nobody cares - see Armenia/Azerbaijan.
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  13. They never said that.
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  14. To follow your advice would mean outsourcing production to China.
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  15. They did. For like 15+ years. The adapted and laid low until the cost was prohibitive.
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  16. China is running their manufacturers at a big loss paid for by the government - who wholly or partially owns all the manufacturers. Nobody is managing to compete with them other than Tesla - and even for them it is tough.
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  17. Really? 150k views? Cat videos get 15m views and gangster music videos get 150m views.
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  18. They are corrupt because they are in the pay of corporations. The biggest payers of campaign donations are military companies. The biggest supporter of unnecessary war - Tony Blair - just got bust with billions in secrets funds with no obvious source for them.
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  19. A good idea, but people need to get around and trains/buses are hard work to use.
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  20.  @SK-kh2rs  Nothing funny for German taxpayers who don't work at VW.
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  21. Except in Germany workers can vote - so any attempt to cut labour costs would be shot down.
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  22.  @emilsohn1671  But what about the high salaries and pensions. Germany still lose because of that. As do Ford and GM.
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  23. China use every tool available. Good engineering, automation, cheap labour, government subsidies, capital availability, burning the boats, copying Tesla, casting, battery innovation.
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  24. Can't 1. They will be voted out 2. EVs are taking over - in 5 years ICE will be nearly gone. Reason is EV prices keep dropping while ICE technology is already at a cost minumum.
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  25. There is no such thing as an EMP. A nuclear blast creates an EMP but now you are shooting flies with a cannon. You will have to wipe out your own city to stop the attack. Shielding electronics is not hard to do.
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  26. No. If your shareholder goes bankrupt it does not mean anything for you.
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  27. Did your rocks travel 7000km below radar, then loiter for 4 hours till it spots a specific vehicle and then launch a JDAM at a specific man, before returning to base for refueling?
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  28. How old are you? What companies do is artificially lower prices using government subsidies for say a decade, they then get all the market share, the mind share, the technology, the know-how, the talent and so on. Once their competitors are dead they jack up margin to Apple levels and profit like are Al Capone. The consumer might 'win' for 10 years but they suffer for '50' thereafter. This is why WTO bans government assistance to companies. They still do it, just real sneaky-sneaky.
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  29.  @maestrovso  Only way to pay for the repairs.
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  30. Synthetic fuels by pathetic fools.
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  31. Recycling is not working anywhere. It is cheaper to make new plastic.
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  32. Bah. In the 80's engineers ruled Porche but their price was 3x the competition and quality was bad. Managers are needed as well.
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  33. Naïve. After your bot army is wiped out you will be wiped out - probably through an engineered civil war.
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  34. The World has moved on since 1938. Teslas cars are neither inexpensive nor simple - yet they sell, and sell at a profit.
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  35. Their range is low. So you will deploy into an area - say a 10km x 10km geofence. Within that zone there will be false positive and false negatives. It will be messy when they take out your kid sister because she was holding a long pole like object.
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  36.  @kamsunleong6648  BYD has 60 000 engineers. How many engineers are working on BEVs in Germany?
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