# EVs, China and Loans: Challenges for German Automotive Suppliers

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2072251790586687509
- Source account: [@Bo_Lognese](https://x.com/Bo_Lognese)
- Source language: German
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:37
- Published: 2026-07-01
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers) A figure I keep hearing, just to give you some context, is that for every electric car today, we transfer an amount between 5,000 and 10,000 euros to China.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers?t=11) For every electric car built here in Europe. 5,000 to 10,000 euros.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers?t=15) That is why there is an effort to build battery cells here, but we still need the raw materials from there, we need inverter technology from there, etc.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers?t=23) And these 5,000 to 10,000 euros are of course missing. They don't end up with the medium-sized business in the Schwarzwald-Baar district or elsewhere where camshafts were ground.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers?t=33) They're gone. Just as a figure, to put things into perspective.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers?t=37) And what is the solution for German industry? It has to do both, but it should also, please, receive clear political signals in Europe.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers?t=44) This technology is also good, keep at it, keep at it with full force.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers?t=51) A medium-sized business that manufactures piston rings, camshaft bearings, or whatever today.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers?t=58) And goes to the bank and says, 'I have a product here that is actually also sustainable.'

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers?t=62) An internal combustion engine can also run on diesel, on HVO fuel.

[1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers?t=67) I need a new loan, I have to modernize my production, I need 1 million euros.

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers?t=74) Then the banker has to look into the European regulations, then he has to see: the product is a combustion engine, not sustainable, penalty interest.

[1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers?t=84) This is how you also kill medium-sized businesses with regulations.

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3tVequl5BlXW/en/evs-china-and-loans-challenges-for-german-automotive-suppliers?t=86) It urgently needs to be changed that lending alone is already disadvantaged for combustion engine components.