Very American headline from Bloomberg. I am always amused by media outlets' perception that a US audience needs everything to be framed in an American context or they can't understand the...
Very American headline from Bloomberg. I am always amused by media outlets' perception that a US audience needs everything to be framed in an American context or they can't understand the significance of the people, places, or ideas under discussion. Also, the Czech Republic has been Czechia in English for eight years.
Automakers should have seen this coming and prepared for it. Electric vehicles are not new, and were not new ten years ago. The Tesla Roadster was released in 2008. China's sudden manufacturing dominance did not happen overnight; that country's automaking firms specifically and intentionally invested in production infrastructure for EVs over many years. It might have come as a surprise to Czechs and Slovaks to see Chinese BEV production spike in 2015, but European manufacturers have had nearly a decade to ramp up their own production in suit. They have knowingly chosen not to make efforts to meaningfully diversify their auto production lines, to retrain workers for EV units, or to adjust hiring practices to minimize layoffs and instead phase into a lighter workforce. There is enough turnover in 10 years to ease into a new technological paradigm. But any such voluntary changes we have seen have been quite recent as the European Union has become more serious about ICE phaseouts. At this point friction is predictable.
There are always specific winners and losers in economic efficiency. In this case, it is a net positive for society to rapidly pivot toward electrified vehicles in so many different ways: environmental, human health, economic. Densely populated European countries with relatively strong electrical grids and stable governments are no exception. That automakers who produce inefficient, toxic, and outdated machinery complain about how the world is changing too fast don't get a ton of sympathy from me. It will be unfortunate for many auto laborers to lose work due to visionless C-suites obsessed with the status quo.
I changed the title to their alternate one (it was originally posted under "Europe’s Detroit is under threat from electric vehicles"). There's a clickbait aspect to sites writing titles like...
I changed the title to their alternate one (it was originally posted under "Europe’s Detroit is under threat from electric vehicles"). There's a clickbait aspect to sites writing titles like that—they're trying to get people to click into the article just to find out what the oblique description in the title is actually referring to.
Very American headline from Bloomberg. I am always amused by media outlets' perception that a US audience needs everything to be framed in an American context or they can't understand the significance of the people, places, or ideas under discussion. Also, the Czech Republic has been Czechia in English for eight years.
Automakers should have seen this coming and prepared for it. Electric vehicles are not new, and were not new ten years ago. The Tesla Roadster was released in 2008. China's sudden manufacturing dominance did not happen overnight; that country's automaking firms specifically and intentionally invested in production infrastructure for EVs over many years. It might have come as a surprise to Czechs and Slovaks to see Chinese BEV production spike in 2015, but European manufacturers have had nearly a decade to ramp up their own production in suit. They have knowingly chosen not to make efforts to meaningfully diversify their auto production lines, to retrain workers for EV units, or to adjust hiring practices to minimize layoffs and instead phase into a lighter workforce. There is enough turnover in 10 years to ease into a new technological paradigm. But any such voluntary changes we have seen have been quite recent as the European Union has become more serious about ICE phaseouts. At this point friction is predictable.
There are always specific winners and losers in economic efficiency. In this case, it is a net positive for society to rapidly pivot toward electrified vehicles in so many different ways: environmental, human health, economic. Densely populated European countries with relatively strong electrical grids and stable governments are no exception. That automakers who produce inefficient, toxic, and outdated machinery complain about how the world is changing too fast don't get a ton of sympathy from me. It will be unfortunate for many auto laborers to lose work due to visionless C-suites obsessed with the status quo.
I changed the title to their alternate one (it was originally posted under "Europe’s Detroit is under threat from electric vehicles"). There's a clickbait aspect to sites writing titles like that—they're trying to get people to click into the article just to find out what the oblique description in the title is actually referring to.
But it's still named the Czech Republic, too. It's also been unofficially called Czechia for nearly 200 years.
Right but they refer to be called Czechia like how the Federal Republic of Germany prefers just Germany.
I don't think I've ever encountered a Czech person who actually cared. It's not like either term is used in the Czech language.
Yeah I wouldn't expect the citizens or care much but it was an explicit action by the Czech government to be called Czechia internationally.
Yeah but Turkey also tried to change their name and that's not stopping me from calling them Turkey.
Mirror, for those hit by the paywall:
https://archive.is/weUhQ