The german car industry killed itself by being complacent and ignoring the writing on the wall.
Now innovative companies like Tesla and BYD come and just eat their lunch.
Now innovative companies like Tesla and BYD come and just eat their lunch.
Of course the engineers that work at German car manufacturers love combustion engines. That is why they chose to go work there in the first place. That is why they had (and have) such a disconnect from the consumer market. Cars are built by people that love cars, not by people that want to get you from A to B. They're people that love the solution, not the problem.
The inertia of big companies starts even in people who are not part of the company yet. It is the people who love finicking with the intricacies of combustion engines that end up at car manufacturers, not the other way around.
you are right thou, solutionists love problems and will even create new problems if their solutions no longer apply.
"Killed itself"? Do you know VW is the largest car company in the world?