1. Another stabbing, Karlsruhe train-station....Friday evening. Standing on one of the platforms....32-year old guy got stabbed. Culprit made it away.
2. Up in the state of NRW (NW Germany).....a company was given the contract to shut-down a nuke plant (billions paid to them). Well....company went bankrupt. Dissolved now.
Gov't says they will have to step in and re-fund the shut-down themselves....at least a couple billion would have to be generated out of thin-air.
3. This odd partnership between BMW and Toyota.....to build hydrogen-powered cars? Well....it came out this past week, and might have serious implications, but it's a decade away.
Meanwhile, I'll just say when the topic comes up with middle-class/working-class Germans, there's minimum enthusiasm for E-cars. I'd say presently.....ONLY around one out of five Germans seem willing to go the E-car route.
Harsh reality of hydrogen cars? Well.....in my circle of 20 miles around Wiesbaden....I know of ONLY ONE single fueling station (was made for hydrogen-buses originally).
Even if you came up with a 40k Euro hydrogen vehicle....it'd take 15 years minimum to get stations set up and geared to fuel-up H-cars. Course, the selling point is that you'd probably only require seven minutes to fuel up a H-car.
4. Hessen (the state) is saying now....a thinking process to help save VW is going on....to save jobs. Wouldn't shock me if the state found half-a-billion to funnel into some zero-percent loan deal.
5. Odd brawl....2:30 AM Saturday morning....two 'gangs' met up in the area of a Breitenbach am Herzberg (Hersfeld-Rotenburg) 'fair' (here in Hessen).
At least six folks arrested....one guy sent to a hospital.
Yes, knives were involved. Police still investigating.
6. For a couple of hours Saturday...railway traffic was halted in central Germany....radio disruption was blamed.
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