Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 24/10/2025A chart Berlin‘s economic policy-makers should think hard about. Doing a buy-German clause in new EV subsidies would be an own goal. The German market is simply too small, and lacks sufficient premium demand. 1/ 1317 31
Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 24/10/2025German car sales are 2.8 million vehicles a year. Bringing that narrow demand base up a notch - say 10% which would be a big effect - still doesn’t recover some 1 million vehicles in lost exports. The arithmetic just doesn’t work. 2/ 170 7
