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• Yes they can tear it apart, but they would not have all the technical information and so on. Anyway I do not have any proof for that, but I am not feeling confident giving so much information to a country that is trying to takeover so many European industry sectors.

  Regarding sales in China. Mercedes sold all their big cars: S/E class and GLS and GLE in China. Same applies for the US.

  They are the ones that bring the cash, sales in Europe are not that profitable.

  So they now have a problem they still sell high volume but their profits declining. That is all I wanted to say.

  on Mercedes-Benz threatened to close a plant in Germany and relocate production in c/europe@feddit.org · 9 Sep 2026

• Exactly what did they sell out? Exactly what technology did China “steal” from Mercedes?
  Car manufacturing has been a global business for more than half a century. Should they just ignore a major emerging market?

  To get a car certified to be sold in China, you need to get a certification, where you need to provide all technical plans and documents for them to be certified. Most of the time a year later there would be a quite similar looking car from a Chinese brand. Collected data about the car and customer is stored on Chinese servers, where the government has access to.

  So I am pretty sure they would never give any of that data to their own manufacturing companies…

  Of course they should sell their cars there, but they should have also prepared for what will happen in the long term. They kept selling petrol cars, because they were are the most profitable cars.

  Yes the Chip shortage had the effect that car prices increased, making each car more profitable to sell.
  But the after effect was a near recession and inflation where profits and sales fell back. Only helped partially and regionally subsidizing EV sales.

  Their sales of petrol cars gone down in China the last few years and this is where they make the most profits.

  Doesn’t change the fact that Mercedes today make the best electric cars on the market without comparison. So they must have done a heck of a lot more than just laughing.

  If they make the best cars, why no one wants them? The sales figures don’t show it. Teslas are expensive still sell a lot higher volume.

  Don’t get me wrong, I would hope they do better, as I hate Musk and his Swasticars. I am from Germany and would like our economy doing well, but they should take their fair share, why we are in this situation today.

  The management of the German car makers made a bunch of bad decisions and now the employees have to take the burden.

  For example an S-class brings about 8000€ of profits, EVs are no way near that. And they sold most of their most profitable cars in China. Now this has gone back a lot and they are missing this income.

  on Mercedes-Benz threatened to close a plant in Germany and relocate production in c/europe@feddit.org · 8 Sep 2026

• They sold their soul in China for short term profit.

  They never had a long term plan, they just saw the profit they were making in China, given away their technology advantage.

  So this is solely the management to be blamed for. During Covid they were making record profits, due to the state paying the employees.

  I worked 5 years for Mercedes and over 10 years in German car industry. They always kept laughing at Tesla and Chinese cheap EVs, now look were they are. No one wants the Mercedes expensive EVs…

  on Mercedes-Benz threatened to close a plant in Germany and relocate production in c/europe@feddit.org · 8 Sep 2026

• Man sorry to hear that. I am sure there are better times ahead for you.

  I feel you about the price hikes, had the same issue with my old machine.

  But started looking for games at GoG and found some fun old classics or god games that do run on my old machine too.

  on I drew fan art for a game I can't play lol in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026