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VW stop moaning & start to get on with it

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  • #2
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    0lddog wrote: »
    https://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL8N1XP6NY


    Maybe I read it wrong, but I didn't see any moaning?


  • #3
    JJJJNR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭JJJJNR


    If anything its show boating,


  • #4
    0lddog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    @Shefwedfan

    LMGTFY

    "Now Volkswagen has warned that its stated plan to offer an electrified version of each of its models will cost more than it estimated. VW previously predicted that the coming shift to battery power would cost some 20 billion euros ($23 billion). CEO Herbert Diess, in an interview published in VW’s internal newsletter, indicated that this figure was too low, but didn’t offer a new estimate. “The burden for our company, such as the cost of bringing to market electric cars, will be higher than expected,” Diess says. “This is particularly so since some of our competitors have been making more progress.”"

    https://chargedevs.com/newswire/german-automakers-struggle-to-find-a-profitable-road-to-electrification/


  • #5
    Sabre Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭Sabre Man


    This is what they said 5 years ago:

    https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1086902_volkswagen-will-be-the-biggest-electric-car-maker-in-2018-it-says?fbclid=IwAR3wT4j-ys0lnYS5P2aTJzuPjNzLLudqQtX8HmcqKwe5evQHKAZypixdoqo


  • #6
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    I don’t see where they’re moaning either. They’re a business that has costs. They know their costs better than anything and have just predicted something will cost more than predicted.

    It’s BAU - business as usual.


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  • #7
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    0lddog wrote: »
    @Shefwedfan

    LMGTFY

    "Now Volkswagen has warned that its stated plan to offer an electrified version of each of its models will cost more than it estimated. VW previously predicted that the coming shift to battery power would cost some 20 billion euros ($23 billion). CEO Herbert Diess, in an interview published in VW’s internal newsletter, indicated that this figure was too low, but didn’t offer a new estimate. “The burden for our company, such as the cost of bringing to market electric cars, will be higher than expected,” Diess says. “This is particularly so since some of our competitors have been making more progress.”"

    https://chargedevs.com/newswire/german-automakers-struggle-to-find-a-profitable-road-to-electrification/




    What does LMGTFY mean?



    Second, that is a different article to the one you originally posted?



    I still don't see VW moaning, just say the cost to business is higher than expected


    That was also posted in September this year, hardly the most up to date arcticle


    Check the VW Neo thread, on here.....it was started by a genius. Some very interesting points he made :P


  • #8
    Calahonda52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,878 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    LMGTFY
    RTFM is an initialism for the expression "read the f""king manual".

    In expurgated texts, substitutions such as "read the frickin' manual", "read the factory manual", "read the flaming manual", "read the fine manual", "read the friendly manual", "read the [pause] manual" or similar variants are used.[1] Initialisms similar to RTFM include "STFW" ("search the ****ing web"), "GIYF" ("Google is your friend") and "LMGTFY" ("let me Google that for you"). These indicate that the questioner could have easily found the answer to their question on the World Wide Web.

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



  • #9
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    Calahonda52 wrote: »
    LMGTFY
    RTFM is an initialism for the expression "read the f""king manual".

    In expurgated texts, substitutions such as "read the frickin' manual", "read the factory manual", "read the flaming manual", "read the fine manual", "read the friendly manual", "read the [pause] manual" or similar variants are used.[1] Initialisms similar to RTFM include "STFW" ("search the ****ing web"), "GIYF" ("Google is your friend") and "LMGTFY" ("let me Google that for you"). These indicate that the questioner could have easily found the answer to their question on the World Wide Web.


    Why would I google? I didn't start the thread?


    Why you start a thread with no information in it apart from a link, the link has nothing to do with the title of the thread......

    Also the link is from September, not even something that was released today/yesterday....old news....

    Seems highly stupid to me....


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