OK BNN is not a good souce but you can see the same thing elsewhere. Y-o-Y new car sales are down -15%, whereas the used car market is expected to grow >5.5%. Note how the OP only claims that the EV market share grew with Tesla leading; they don't claim that more EV vehicles were sold. https://www.marklines.com/en/s... https://www.mordorintelligence...

The Norwegian EV market share is high among *new* cars. The current trend is that fewer new cars are bought, and more used cars. So you can read it as: government regulations make new ICE cars less attractive, so that customers move towards the used ICE car market. As a side effect, the EV market share grows among new cars, but that doesn't translate 1:1 to EV market growth, and does not indicate at all that customers would prefer EV over ICE. https://bnnbreaking.com/world/...

No, the green party fought for it and it's a green party victory.

Current surveys show a majority of Germans in favour of nuclear energy, but as long as the green party (15%) is in government, nothing will happen and fossil fuels will prevail against the will of the people.

The problem with coal is not exploding coal plants as you believe, but that their pollution in normal operation kills many more people every year than nuclear ever did. You obviously have no clue about environment and health impact of energy production. Green party member?

Wrong again. Since 1970 France reduced CO2 to a much lower level than Germany, with Germany producing electricity on average today at 8 times the CO2/kWh of France. Thanks to nuclear power, France is not only 8 times better than Germany, but also 40 years earlier. The only German record is the high cost.

The US and UK do not export vaccines, whereas the EU exports about 40% of its production. The EU has exported 77 million doses to 33 countries, including 21 million to the UK. https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

I work in EDA (electronic design automation). Almost all CAD software used to design ICs are desktop applications for Linux only. Thousands of engineers in Intel, AMD, Hisilicon, Qualcomm, NVidia, STMicroelectronics, Infineon, ... use Linux on the desktop for their daily work. Linux replaced Solaris desktops 15 years ago, Windows never had a chance. Nevertheless, most of these engineers have a Windows laptop besides their Linux desktop PC. Outlook, Excel and Word are must-have software in the enterprise; having a Linux desktop PC hasn't change that.

The official numbers reported by China are obviously way too small. For example, only 9 dead are reported for Beijing, a city of 20.5 million people. My inlaws however living in Beijing know 3 fatalities personally, 2 were neighbours and died in their appartment building. How probable is that? It's ridiculous to put the Chinese propaganda next to the real numbers of other countries.

You seem to live in fantasy world where Tesla is the only EV maker and the others have to catch up. In reality, Tesla owns 28% of the world's fully electric vehicle sales, followed by VW, Nissan, BMW, and Hyundai. The others have had factory lines for years, they just didn't care as much about this market in the past because it's a small market and they make more profit with ICE cars.

Why do you think there are no updates in a BMW? I got a software update on my BMW X3 a month ago. The navigation software occasionally crashed before (three times in a year), so I asked for the update. The update process is complicated to do by yourself: you have to submit some lengthy vehicle code number to a website, then download a big file to a USB flash drive. But their download software sucks and the car didn't like my USB flash drive, so I went to the dealer and had them do it. No big deal as the next BMW service center is just 5min away. The next Tesla service center is very far away, there are only few. Some cities don't even have one. Of course Tesla must provide a different way for updates. What's the point about Tesla being better in software? I use my car's navigation software, and the radio, and MP3 player. That hasn't changed much in the past 10 years. I know there's some self-parking feature in my car that I haven't even bothered to try yet because I just don't care about those gimmicks.

Many people consume already more zinc than they can digest by eating red meat, cheese, ... so that further supplementing zinc won't do much unless you're vegan. The problem here is not lack of zinc, but rather that zinc's antiviral effect is so weak. It's been tried against the common cold for 70 years, there is a little proven effect, but very far from a life-saving cure.

Many people consume already more zinc than they can digest by eating red meat, cheese, ... so that further supplementing zinc won't do much unless you're vegan. The problem here is not lack of zinc, but rather that zinc's antiviral effect is so weak. It's been tried against the common cold for 70 years, there is a little proven effect, but very far from a life-saving cure.

In fact, it could create what the Germans called an "Economic Miracle" -- their own modern debt jubilee in 1948, the currency reform administered by the Allied Powers. When the Deutsche Mark was introduced, replacing the Reichsmark, 90 percent of government and private debt was wiped out. Germany emerged as an almost debt-free country, with low costs of production that jump-started its modern economy...

well, then don't forget that the creditors of that eliminated government debt were mostly German private households and companies. Cash and savings accounts got converted with a ratio of 100 RM = 6.50 DM. Salaries and rent were converted 100RM=100DM. German private middle class households lost over 90% of their bank accounts and savings in that currency reform. (The later London debt agreement of 1953 was a 90% debt relief of the foreign debt to other nations. That volume was much smaller and didn't have as much impact on the already growing economy.)

The first mistake in such models would be using input data reported by the Chinese government. Not only are many infections undetected (like in every country), but the numbers are censored by a dictatorial government with zero freedom of press and no independent institutions allowed to report anything.