On: Northvolt goes from Europe battery promise to crisis

[rich_sasha]

That's a very good point.

Germany was always brilliant at mechanical engineering, their universities are decent in general, but very good at all forms of mechanical/chemical engineering.

US is mad keen on software and entrepreneurship and its top universities churn out software startup founders like nowhere else. It's just a pity software ain't what it was 10 years ago.

Perhaps the deep cadres of really well educated engineers, and thus available work force, is the determining factor here.

[dzhiurgis → rich_sasha]

Sounds like a good balance - Europe does science, US entrepreneurs, China manufacturing.

[rich_sasha → dzhiurgis]

Ha, well, it feels increasingly like China is eating everyone's lunch.

Fair play to them, that's only what the West had done for the past, hmm, 300 years? But of course a bit bleak for European and US GDP.