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Read this. More EU madness. An attempt to stop parts being recycled from dead or crashed cars to keep existing cars on the road. – at Midhurst, England
Leyen nimmt Ihnen ihr bezahlbares, altes Auto weg Neue Verordnung (EU) 2026/1738 vom 8. Juli 2026 zur Einschränkung des Teilehandels für ältere Fahrzeuge (10 Jahre und älter) Die EU und das Verschwinden älterer Autos: Verordnung (EU) 2026/1738 vom 8. Juli 2026 als Instrument der Verdrängung Die Verordnung (EU) 2026/1738 vom 8. Juli 2026 über Anforderungen an die kreislauforientierte Konstruktion von Fahrzeugen und die Bewirtschaftung von Altfahrzeugen erschwert und verteuert gezielt die Instandhaltung älterer Fahrzeuge in einem Maße, das deren Verbleib im Markt systematisch unmöglich macht. Für viele Bürger, die sich derzeit noch ein Auto leisten können, bedeutet dies den Verlust des eigenen Autos. Wie die Regeln den Bestand älterer Fahrzeuge unter Druck setzen Ab dem 1. September 2028 gelten die zentralen Vorschriften. Nach Artikel 24 müssen Eigentümer eines Fahrzeugs, das als Altfahrzeug gilt, dieses grundsätzlich an eine zertifizierte Behandlungsanlage übergeben. Nach Anhang I der Verordnung (EU) 2026/1738 vom 8. Juli 2026 wird ein Fahrzeug bereits dann zum Altfahrzeug, wenn es in Einzelteile zerlegt oder zur Wiederverwendung seiner Teile demontiert wurde. Damit wird die private Ausschlachtung, die bisher eine wichtige Quelle günstiger Ersatzteile darstellte, erheblich eingeschränkt. Neue Ersatzteile für Autos schon ab 10 Jahre gibt es heute oft gar nicht mehr. Steuergeräte für den Motor oder für Sicherheitssysteme gibt es vom Hersteller manchmal gar nicht oder teilweise nur zu extrem hohen Preisen, oft 2000 bis 3000 €. Gebrauchte Teile für 200 € werden systhematisch vom Markt verschwinden. Getriebegehäuse, Steuergeräte, Armaturen oder Karosserieteile ebenfalls. Reparaturen, die heute noch wirtschaftlich sind, werden unrentabel. Die Folge ist ein früherer wirtschaftlicher Totalschaden für den Besitzer und die vorzeitige Stilllegung technisch noch nutzbarer Fahrzeuge. Für wenige teure Oldtimer mit H-Kennzeichen soll es Ausnahmen geben, jedoch nicht für die große Zahl älterer Alltagsfahrzeuge – etwa 10 Jahre alte und ältere Modelle, die für viele Haushalte die einzige finanzierbare Form individueller Mobilität darstellen. Ein 10 Jahre altes Auto, das technisch noch zuverlässig fährt, ist immer öfter auf günstige Ersatzteile angewiesen. Ab September 2029 kommen spezielle Anforderungen für Verkäufer hinzu (Artikel 31). Gebrauchte Teile aus zugelassenen Anlagen müssen gekennzeichnet sein und speziellen, komplexen Funktionsanforderungen genügen. Die damit verbundenen enormen Dokumentations- und Prüfpflichten lassen die Kosten vor allem kleinerer Händler und Spezialisten explodieren. Diese Mehrkosten werden an die Endkunden weitergegeben und erhöhen gezielt den Kosten für die Instandhaltung älterer Fahrzeuge ab ca 10 Jahre, die vom Markt verschwinden sollen. Ein Muster in der europäischen Fahrzeugpolitik Die Verordnung steht nicht isoliert. Sie fügt sich in eine Reihe von Maßnahmen ein, die den Bestand älterer belasten: Unrealistische Emissionsstandards für Neufahrzeuge, Fahrverbote, steigende Betriebskosten und die Verlagerung des Marktes hin zu teureren neuen Fahrzeugen. Die Einschränkung von Teilemärkten ist ein bewusst gewählter zusätzlicher Hebel der EU um ältere Autos vom Markt zu entfernen. Wer sich heute noch ein gebrauchtes Auto leisten und mit überschaubaren Reparaturkosten am Laufen halten kann, sieht sich demnächst mit horrenden Kosten konfrontiert. Für Haushalte mit begrenztem Einkommen bedeutet dies den Verzicht auf individuelle Mobilität. Der öffentliche Nahverkehr kann diese Lücke in vielen Regionen nicht schließen. Die offizielle Begründung betont Umwelt- und Ressourcenschutz.Die praktische Wirkung der Regelungen besteht jedoch darin, die Nutzungsdauer älterer Fahrzeuge stark zu verkürzen und den Übergang zu neueren, teureren Fahrzeugen zu erzwingen. Eigentum an einem älteren Auto wird damit nicht nur technisch, sondern auch wirtschaftlich und regulatorisch gezielt stark verteuert. Es ist absehbar, dass die Verfügbarkeit von Ersatzteilen zurückgeht und die Kosten für den Erhalt älterer Fahrzeuge stark steigen. Für viele Bürger, die sich derzeit noch ein Auto leisten können, bedeutet dies eine weitere Einschränkung ihrer Mobilität. Eine Politik, die ältere Fahrzeuge systematisch aus dem Markt drängt, ohne die sozialen Folgen für die betroffenen Haushalte zu berücksichtigen, ist höchst unsozial. blackout-news.de/politik/eu-…
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Outstanding. Nothing says late Blairism like uaing PR to cover up fantasy energy theories. – at Cocking Causeway, England
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Fazinating tip-off. Volkswagen's local bank has just been hit with 608mn Euro losses just as VW plans massive lay-offs.
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Wer braucht das?! Wie Autos unnötig schwer und teuer werden … Drei Tonnen Gewicht und 578 PS, um 800 km Reichweite zu erzielen?! Stromer sind sehr sinnvoll, der Trend zu Fahrzeugen mit immer mehr Leistung und Gewicht aber nicht! In der aktuellen Printausgabe der ZEIT. 🍀WW
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The existential crisis of the Western car industry will be one of the defining economic stories of the next decade.👇 It will be grisly and difficult, and a tough time to be a free trader. It will be even tougher than the last "China shock" which began to hollow out industrial regions in Europe and America - because this is much more skilled labour, much higher-paid jobs, that are being disrupted. But it also speaks to something else, a decades-long story of how American and European firms quietly outsourced much of their manufacturing expertise to Asia. The car badges stayed as European and American as they always were. But their insides were, more and more, coming from the other side of the world. What we are living through now is the next act of that saga, as cheap (and good!) Chinese cars flood the rest of the world. But to understand this moment, you need to step back and look not at cars but at the evolution of "globalisation", to look at how, over time, our fixation with cheap stuff has invariably trumped the question of where stuff comes from. That is the story I've tried to tell in Trade World - to try to illustrate the arcs of economic history that led us to this moment, and to ponder what comes next...
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"Our electricity system has become hugely inefficient. Twenty years ago, peak demand was 45GW, and we had 65GW of capacity. Peak demand has fallen since then... but we now have about 120GW of capacity" + lots of extra battery, storage and grid costs." thetimes.com/comment/columni…
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In my three years covering the energy brief, I have never seen anything like this. I first raised concerns put to me by whistleblowers within NESO in the House of Commons on 7 July. The main allegation is that our grid is not being run securely, and specifically that the rules put in place to prevent blackouts were breached on 23 June, when a heatwave put strain on our electricity supply. Since then, we have seen a conveyor belt of dismissals, denials, and downright lies from NESO and Ministers. The problem? Time and again, the whistleblowers keep being proved right. At first NESO denied that rules were breached on 23 June, telling staff and the press that the allegations were “false”. Ministers Ed Miliband and Michael Shanks said I was “scaremongering”, and Shanks told the House categorically that “at no point did we come close to breaching” reserve standards. However, leaked internal documents have since shown that NESO's initial view was that they did breach reserve standards, and that “system security was compromised”. NESO has confirmed these documents are genuine and has provided no evidence to contradict them. Strike one. Senior management also criticised the whistleblowers internally, saying on an all-staff call that they had “let them down”. They denied this was said, only for a leaked recording to prove that it had been. Strike two. Then Ministers and NESO management insisted an 'independent' investigation would take place, only for it again to become clear that this was not true. Ministers and Ofgem had left NESO to mark their own homework. Engineers were told that if they wanted to contribute, they had to identify themselves to the very NESO managers whose necks would be on the line if the inquiry found them to be at fault. Strike three. After my repeated complaints, some improvements have been made to the investigation. But there is still no route for control room operators to raise concerns about grid security without going through NESO managers. Miliband was completely absent during this scandal, too busy trying – and failing – to become Chancellor. His Ministers have been firmly on the side of NESO management despite their repeated poor behaviour. Whatever your view on renewables, it is clear that the more wind and solar we pile onto our grid, the less engineers can perform the delicate balancing act needed to keep the lights on. You need to have a lot of back-up power on standby in case the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine. And if the wind blows or sun shines too much, you need to pay to switch things off. Balancing costs us £1.5bn per year now, but up to £10bn by 2030 - all paid through your bills. These 'hidden costs' triggered my battle to get the energy department to do a true costing of renewables. We have to look at their full system costs, not just their cost when the wind is blowing the right amount. Sadly, one of Ed Miliband’s first acts was to cancel that work and ask NESO to take it on instead. They delivered one of the most discredited reports I have ever seen, showing through shameless statistical contortions that Labour's dash to Clean Power 2030 was, conveniently, both achievable and consumer-friendly. As the sole shareholder of NESO, only the Secretary of State can hold them to account. The NESO leadership’s craven support for his plans, worked out behind the scenes with his political advisers, shows they had already given up on the standards of impartiality and integrity required from our independent public bodies. When public bodies face no accountability, the British public will always lose. The fact that things have got so bad for expert engineers within our control room that they are talking to an Opposition politician and the press at huge personal risk is shameful. The Ministers dismissing their concerns do these courageous individuals a huge disservice. We should be applauding them, not denigrating them. I will not stop until they are heard.
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Thank you Germany 🇩🇪 and UK 🇬🇧 for heroically sacrificing your economy to save the planet 💪 _
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Volkswagen aims to axe up to 100,000 jobs in a “profound” strategic shift to counter trade tariffs, stagnating markets and, above all, fierce competition from China.
It will cut one in six of its 660,000 jobs worldwide and production at four German factories — the largest restructure in automotive industry history. China is out to do to Europe’s car industry what it’s already done to its solar panel industry — destroy it. Judging from the pathetic response of the EU so far to this threat (the UK is equally pathetic) it’s likely to succeed. China also aims to dominate batteries, wind power machinery, machine tools, Pharma and chips — with its mercantilist ‘industrial policy of everything’. China 2.0 poses a far bigger threat to European industry than China 1.0 over 20 years ago. Some forecasts predict over 50% of what’s left of Europe’s manufacturing base will be gone in a decade.
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>>Crit­ical mass<< The auto­mot­ive industry is suf­fer­ing from ‘auto­besity’. How did this emerge, and what can be done about it? pressreader.com/article/2823… #CriticalMass
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Just out... our latest newsletter, charting Europe's doomed policy of carbon emissions reduction, which is failing to reduce emissions and condemning the continent to persistent recession... mailchi.mp/emissionsanalytic…
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HAVING SUCKED UP TO THE CCP, THE EU NOW WHINES ABOUT IT: "At a meet last week in Casablanca, Chinese firms held #Morocco key to EU car parts supply chains. Renault and Peugeot's Stellantis have big plants there, complicating any trade defence measures." giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic…
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If you buy the new Ferrari Luce as a company car you can deduct 100% of the purchase price from your taxable profits…. So if your profits exceed £250k, buying a Luce would save you £125k in corporation tax. This ludicrous tax loophole is why so many new EV’s are sold. According to gov figures 78% of all EV’s are bought through a busienss. If this tax loophole didn’t exist the number of new EV’s being sold in the UK would be staggeringly lower.
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>>New initiative to understand the intersection between air quality pollution and effects on mental health<< We welcome the launch of the Air Quality and Mental Health Research Consortium, which will curate the latest academic research on this topic: lnkd.in/ev_wEEUi
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Just out ... our latest newsletter... >>The identity crisis for net zero<< Why you can bend politics but not truth mailchi.mp/emissionsanalytic… #tyremissions #tireemissions @tyreconsortium
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US electric cars only win quickly if forced by environmental standards With regulation, 40-46% of all cars will be electric by 2050 Without regulation, 18% by 2050 Without regulation, most people still want gas cars at least till 2040 eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/AEO…
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Quite right. As we’ve been saying. Weight is more important than size. #CriticalMass
I wonder perhaps if maybe they could also look into the enormous weight of electric cars.
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This week's video is a dive into what's going on in the car industry today. Crazy times.. Chaos in the car industry; £65Bn written off, EV projects cancelled, ICE... youtu.be/A6fp-BHVhC8?si=2Xsf… via @YouTube
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