That is so stereotypical for anyone in his position. That’s not just him, I agree it’s a sad state of affairs, and I don’t know why this stupidity is so common. But that particular issue any other minister of justice would be more than 90% likely to have the same opinion, after they’ve been briefed by PET and FET or whatever cancer is behind it.
IDK why you didn’t, I don’t care to dig it all up for you, so I’ll just leave an article about Toyota which is the biggest competitor to VW.
Toyota unit to settle emissions scandal for $1.6bn:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62666374l4o
Seeing that this is in UK, my guess is that if they try to take it to court, the court will simply throw the case out.
Kind of weird to call VW late (tardiness), when they completely dominated the EV market in EU in 2025.
VW had very attractive EVs already 5 years ago, while Toyota the worlds biggest car manufacturer only arrived with something last year!
China has been moving very fast, and has a development cadence that is 3 times faster than Tesla.
No western manufacturer can match that, but VW is probably among the closest.
Complete and utterly false, USA has that reputation because it’s true.
USA has that reputation because it happens all the time, because it’s easy to make a lawsuit, even often finding a lawyer that will take the case it without payment, but take the fee as a percentage of the potential winnings. And because USA has insane rules of extremely high compensations.
USA is not known for this because of a single anecdote, but because it’s very common, and because of the insane compensations, which is part of why it is so common to also try with what would be a frivolous suit in any other country.
Point in case would also be the Apple lawsuit against Samsung, where part of the case was as simple as a tablet being a fucking tablet! When even Star Trek of the 60’s realized that it was a convenient form factor.
Apple won on just about all points of the case, but in following years they were completely dismantled, with decisions that the case didn’t have a basis, and the patents were interpreted way to widely.
This was a HUGE case that cost enormous amounts of money for both sides, and the only true winners are the lawyers. The US judicial system in this regard is completely rotten and that is being abused for frivolous cases that would be thrown out in other countries.
The upcoming ID Polo will almost guaranteed be a major hit in my country. if what VW promises is true.
Being a cheap quality EV with good range.
They were merely the first that were caught doing it. Turned out EVERYBODY was doing it.
But maybe you were forgetting that?
mrd ??
Ok thanks, I assumed it was in USA, since Valve is American.
Also frivolous suits tend to happen most in USA.
Transition to EV is expensive, and doubling the product line having both ICE and EV is also expensive.
On top of that competition is very tough with new competition from China.
So all things considered, I think they are meeting the challenges pretty well.
VW is the most sold EV brand in EU, and their MEB platform sold though many other VW group brands dominate EV’s in EU with more than 50% marketshare!
The cars are praised for their quality in several aspects, so it’s not like they have degraded on quality like Stelantis brands have done to keep up profitability. So I think VW is in a good place long term.
It’s like suing a grocery shop for selling the xyz branded milk for using their copyrighted font.
I came here to make this exact point.
The real reason they do it of course, is that Steam is big, and they can get more money from Steam if they win.
Juries are very unpredictable in such cases. And that’s what they are playing on.
This is the exact thing that leads to attacks on USA like 9/11.
And the Americans are doing nothing to stop Trump!
For fucks sake, Peter Hummelgaard is perfectly normal and rational, I’d even say moral person, and he is minister of justice, so of course he gets exposure.
If you for instance read his May 1. speech, yoyu can see he is very sensible.
https://www.dansketaler.dk/taler/hummelgaard-peter
Goddam that speech about death and destruction raining on Iran from the sky!
Those people are insane.
That’s a classical philosophical question, the good Samaritan is an example of this. And clearly you have a moral obligation to help if you can. But in USA this is often ignored, as sociopathy is considered a form of freedom. and freedom is seen as the ultimate good.
You are simply wrong by any reasonable moral standard.
Obviously Israel and USA are the ones that are directly guilty, but that does not exclude the possibility of guilt if you could have helped prevent them from committing atrocities.
That’s true, clearly worse than we have here in Denmark. Of course we also have stupid people here, but they are generally not exposed broad and wide on TV.
But UK is still no match for USA from what I have seen. But clearly it’s not a problem for a politician to be stupid and also be successful. Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Liz Truss. Are all examples of that. It’s astounding that a known liar like Boris Johnson was allowed to lead UK to vote for Brexit.
30 years ago we had a party leader Svend Auken that was caught in an outright lie. That cost him his political career.
Yes Israel and USA are responsible. But the west are still partners with them, although the relations have cooled a lot.
And being associates, we do have a humanitarian responsibility to try to encourage them to stop their atrocies both against Iran and Gaza.
or will that ultimately lead to absolute nuclear war?
The chances are 50/50, so it’s worth a shot.
/s
No I agree with the article, the west as a whole has been way to complacent and allowed Israel to go way further than should have been permitted, completely without consequences.
The west has also handled Trump very softly in all his insane lashing out on the whole world.
I am pretty sure I saw somewhere that HL3 was confirmed. 😜