I don’t think anyone in Europe has bought noteable quantities of electric work vehicles or public transportation from china for the EU to really care about it on it’s own to be honest.
The region of Flanders in Belgium has recently bought loads of Chinese busses. It’s not the whole of Europe but still half a country that’s switching to Chinese busses. Few weeks after this decision hundreds of people got laid off.
Especially Belgium is very susceptible to the influx of cheap Chinese cars because 1 out of 4 employees in Belgian drives around in a company owned car. These cars are part of their wage because it’s a way to evade taxes. As those leased cars are replaced every few years they soon will be replaced by cheap Chinese products. That’s at minimum 200.000 vehicles in the next 6 years.
and here I thought EU cared about the environment
I’m not really sure how new cars are an answer to the environmental issues. But yeah they seem to be consistent.
Electric vehicles include stuff like buses, almost 80% of public transit in China is now run on clean energy https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2403089981/
I don’t think anyone in Europe has bought noteable quantities of electric work vehicles or public transportation from china for the EU to really care about it on it’s own to be honest.
The region of Flanders in Belgium has recently bought loads of Chinese busses. It’s not the whole of Europe but still half a country that’s switching to Chinese busses. Few weeks after this decision hundreds of people got laid off.
Especially Belgium is very susceptible to the influx of cheap Chinese cars because 1 out of 4 employees in Belgian drives around in a company owned car. These cars are part of their wage because it’s a way to evade taxes. As those leased cars are replaced every few years they soon will be replaced by cheap Chinese products. That’s at minimum 200.000 vehicles in the next 6 years.
Yup. We even had the mandatory media push of BYD lately. Not only because of their buses but because of their cars as well.