Comment by whiteboardr

There's a lot at play, which in combination led to this "perfect" storm.

Energy policies and hence ever increasing energy prices, bureaucracy almost as bad as Italy, governements making technical decisions for unprepared manufacturers by setting goals of EV production numbers and above all phasing out the cornerstone of the countries engine, literally: ICE power units.

And yes, most management are of an era that truly doesn't understand the convergent challenges in a mixed market of ICE and EVs. Shortsighted decisions have been made, throwing out the baby with the bathwater - craftsmanship, vision and engineering prowess.

What was an engineering driven industry with a say in where all this is headed became a soulless marketing machine, merely scratching the surface of what needs to be done.

They created some very bad "sci-fi" by plastering screens everywhere in interiors while still treating software like some part you can outsource to the lowest bidding supplier, swapping these out every other model range or update.

Actual internal research and guidance got killed off around the early 2010s by outsourcing all of it externally.

Besides, the culture and politics within these corporations are the worst i ever encountered in my whole career.

It's a very grim picture we're looking at but there's nobody, neither in upper management across boards nor in politics actually being able to see the misery they're in, let alone doing something about it.

Glad i left almost 10 years ago but still sad, since all I had to witness is effecting society as a whole and not in a good way.

It's really just the beginning of what is to come.