Wir Brauchen Nicht Keine Schtinkink Schparky Autos

Gott im Himmel, Donner und Blitzen!!

Strengstens verboten!

Nicht mit die gefinger poken in das blinken lights economy, else you vill get a schocka!

Das sind ja doch Volks-Wahnsinn (peoples insanity-VW) oder Volkswagen (VW)?

I think its really quite Re-Merkel-ble, but I still Jetta around comfortably with a regular combustion engine.

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

In a country that's shutting down nuclear power plants, why would anyone (greens included) want to drive a coal powered car?

I hope Spiegel allows reader comments just on their last day of existence so I can laughen ze much.

Well Oktoberfest ends Sunday, October 7, 2012; cant' German engineers make a BEER powered car?
I'm sure they can figure that out between now and then.

I mean who would you rather have, over a barrel, OPEC princes or German breweries?

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

This just shows you the level of staggering incompetence of most politicians.

As for coal-fired cars, they work well enough. Budapest had coal-fired taxis into the 1960s. Dirty things, of course,
and they produced REAL air pollution, not just CO2, which is pollution for pansies.

When those battery-powered cars are sitting in the garage in 2020 because nobody can afford the electricity, I'll still be puttering along in my then-34-year-old Mercedes diesel.

Aviator you make an excellent point. This is one the frauds underlying the electric car. The folks that are pushing the idea have completely discounted the fact that electricity rates are going to continue to rise. Even with today's electricity prices the electric car is a very weak proposition. It only gets worse as electricity prices rise.

So on the one hand you have a group of pinkos pushing electric cars, and other the other hand you have another group of pinkos insisting on policies that will cause electricity rates to rise.

The loser in all of this is once again the taxpayer and consumer.

"Wir mussen die Englander schlagen!" - "We must beat the British" General Ludendorff, 1918. That didn't work out so well either.

What Hans said.

Make me a fuel cell that turns natural gas, or whatever, into electricity onboard a vehicle, in real time, and that creates no toxic byproducts, and that I can refuel in a reasonable time, and I will buy tat vehicle.

If the price is right. It has to be competitively priced with my Ford diesel that gets 12.3l/100km and hauls my camper and trailer.

On second thought, make the damned fuel cell better than my pickup. I'm quite fond of it, and the tailpipe emmissions are clean and odour-free. I'm happy with my truck.

Kate, have you ever considered taking German language lessons. :-)

Too bad they won't have clean nuclear power plants to charge said sparky autos.

4600 is a good start with 8 years left to the pipe dream. It's amazing that an advanced society can find 4600 people that stupid. Unless of course a government entity bought the 4600 cars.

I wonder how much the remote control costs.

Hand cranked generators are the obvious solution. Hook it to your sparkmobile and crank your way to work. The exercise gets rid of the Oktoberfest beer weight. You hook the generator the the appropriate body parts of the climate change deniers (is that the au courant term?) and show them the light, so to speak.

Next problem, bitte.