Europe's EV sales surge 26% in 2025 while Tesla faces decline

Too little and too late. Draconian measures are necessary to push automakers into compliance and to push consumers to buy. It's expensive unless we want to sell out to China completely, but necessary and in the end, affordable.

  sell out to China completely

Let China sell tens of billions of affordable EVs to Europe. Let Europe sell tens of billions of ASML EUV machines and Airbus planes to China.

Sell what each region is best at. Mutual benefits. Crazy idea right?

More shortsighted than crazy, imho.

EU tried that with Russia, then we were dependent on oil/gas, and somehow the dictatorial regime fscked us on Ukraine, and now all of us are wasting so much more time and money.

Everybody already knows China is going to invade Taiwan. The global chip market is not going to like that, and this will happen only because we played the good guy with a dictator.

And then all of this will be retroactively be seen as aiding and collaborating with evil, again.

"Curse your sudden and inevitable betrayal", again and again.

Why does Europe need to care about Taiwan? Ukraine I get, it's a security concern for us. But some island far away with a tenuous independence claim?