We only see the tip of the iceberg when it comes to electric vehiclesWe only know the expensive ones that can be exported to the EU. But the range starts with a US$ 4,000 electric car that has sold over a million units.Wow, the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra has 1540 hp and does 0 to 200 km/h in under 6 seconds! But today, let's look at the other end of the electric vehicles manufactured in China: cheap utility vehicles that improve the owner's life by a few hundred € per month. In a very poor country, a few hundred euros a month makes a huge difference. Many people have the idea "How are the inhabitants of developing countries supposed to be able to afford electric cars?". My newsletter today is intended to turn this around: "How are the inhabitants of developing countries supposed to be able to afford cars with combustion engines?".  Watch the video here It really says US$ 25,424.15 for an 11-seater vehicle that is suitable as a shared cab. However, this price already includes 40% import duty for large electric vehicles. So without import duty it would only be US$ 18,160. You can't even think about a combustion engine in Nepal if you're not super rich but buy the vehicle for your livelihood: The duty rate for combustion vehicles is typically 80-225% of the vehicle value, depending on engine capacity and vehicle type. Additional charges such as excise duty (special consumption tax) are also incurred, which can be between 30-80% depending on the vehicle. The special consumption tax is probably a registration tax similar to the NOVA in Austria. Customs duty and special consumption tax together are between 134% and 305% for combustion engines. Let's assume that such a taxi driver buys this car with a 7-year lease at 7% interest. That makes a leasing rate of US$ 343 per month. He drives 5,000 km per month with a consumption of 20 kWh/100 km. The urban consumption of electric vehicles is well below WLTP. My Tesla Y SR, for example, is rated at 646 km in urban areas, but only 455 km in the mix. It pays US$ 66 for the 1,000 kWh. It's really unbelievable that a shared taxi driver only pays US$ 66 for electricity for 5,000 km per month. Leasing rate and electricity are US$ 409 per month. If it transports 100 passengers a day and 3,000 passengers a month, the leasing rate and electricity are only 14 cents per passenger. A diesel bus? Let's assume that a diesel bus would be twice as expensive after customs duties and registration tax, hence a leasing rate of US$ 686. In town, we calculate 10 liters per 100 km, which makes 500 liters of diesel at US$ 0.96. Leasing rate and diesel are then US$ 1,166. That makes 39 cents per passenger. Which shared taxi driver can ignore a price difference of US$ 757 per month?
I don't know, I only know Nepal from numerous photos of one of my former web design clients, which I used for his websites. So it's best to ask Google Maps: 
9 hours 47 minutes for 380 km makes an average of 39 km/h. In comparison, Google Maps gives an average of 100 km/h for Salzburg to Berlin. 
I have ridden this route from Sibiu - Sibiu to Brasov - Brasov several times. 2 hours 15 minutes for 147 km is a 68 km/h average. That's a country road with lots of passing through towns. I have to describe 68 km/h as very ambitious. I always calculate an average of 60 km/h on such routes. So we have to look for something even slower. 
I was on Corfu in 2023. 27 minutes for 18 km is a 40 km/h average. Through towns and narrow mountain roads. That's probably how the 39 km/h in Nepal comes about. These are circumstances that are extremely disadvantageous for combustion engines. I am a very economical driver, but the FIAT Tipo rental car was 40% above standard consumption. I'm sure I would have come in under standard consumption on Corfu with an electric car.
I suspect that no vehicle in this exhibition would be eligible for registration in the EU. ESP, ABS and numerous mandatory assistants are probably not installed in these vehicles. There is a very wide range of electric vehicles in China. We only know the expensive, fully equipped ones that can be exported to the EU. This led to the question: "How are the inhabitants of developing countries supposed to be able to afford electric cars?"
We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg here: from BYD Seagull to Xiaomi SU7 ultra. But there is more. Products that are not eligible for approval in the EU, but are an offer that many people in poor developing countries cannot refuse. During and after the 2008 oil price crisis, I examined the trade balances of numerous countries. For us inhabitants of rich industrialized countries, the cost of oil imports is a nuisance, but otherwise hardly worth mentioning. For developing countries, however, oil imports cause catastrophic trade deficits. 
Here to the whole video, this picture is from 18:39
This is a US$ 4,000 electric car that has already sold 1,140,000 units in 2024. It is reminiscent of the Lloyd, Issetta and other small cars of the 1950s. This is how mass mobility began in Germany back then. Today, we drive cars in Germany that would have been an incredible luxury in the 1950s. China is currently building up a gigantic future market in Africa and South America. We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg here: BMW, Mercedes and Volkswagen versus BYD. The EU car industry has absolutely nothing to counter the numerous cheapest electric vehicles on offer in developing countries.
Analogous to the question "How are the inhabitants of developing countries supposed to be able to afford electric cars?" there is of course also the question "How are the inhabitants of developing countries supposed to be able to afford GEMINI next generation houses?" There are many small photovoltaic systems in Africa. It starts with charging cell phones. Refrigerators and cooking are already in the top third of applications. Why should the prototype already be equipped with 80 kW fast charging power, directly from the battery, without any power grid? Because some African in a village with no or far too weak an electricity grid wants to finance his GEMINI next generation house by selling 50,000 kWh of electricity a year to motorists at 20 cents/kWh. This African has decades of experience selling electricity in his village. He started in 2005 with 20 cents for one full charge of a cell phone. His production facility at the time was a 60 watt peak photovoltaic module, where he could charge 10 cell phones at the same time when the sun was shining. This is the basis of our claim to be able to market the house worldwide. Have I given you a new perspective? Then think about buying shares in GEMINI next Generation AG.
We will be presenting a poster at the central annual meeting for the energy transition in and from the regions October 7-9, 2025 | forumKloster, Gleisdorf.
I have on ImmobilienScout24.at searched for properties of 350 m² or more. There are 25 entries on each results page. I looked through the first 19 pages and found 55 suitable plots. The selection criteria were suitable for residential construction and under €200 per square meter. Some were plots of up to 6,500 m², which are already suitable for 10 houses. Only one was in the federal state of Salzburg, none in Tyrol or Vorarlberg. So almost only Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Burgenland, Styria and Carinthia. The apartments range in size from 56 m², suitable for a retired couple, to 118 m² for a large family. With 2 to 4 rooms there are 60 m² to 97 m². With 4 to 6 rooms there are 94 m² to 119 m². The houses themselves have between 33 kW and 55 kW of photovoltaics. If the prototype can be financed quickly now, it will be possible to compensate for the enormous delay caused by the monkey business with the rare lizards: Prototype at the end of 2025, series production from fall 2026. A simple calculation example: What is a share worth if a company value of 300 million is divided into 150,000 shares?
Net zero emissions means reducing greenhouse gas emissions to a level that nature can supposedly absorb for a long time. For the rich, this means Maintain poverty, cause poverty, so that enough emission rights remain for the rich. See the architect and her opinion that Africans don't need roads.
Planetary cleanup back to 350 ppm CO2 means about 47,000 TWh of electricity to filter 1 ppm CO2 from the atmosphere and recycle it into carbon and oxygen. Who can afford that? Only a rich human race, 10 billion people in prosperity can do it. One million km² of energy-optimized settlement areas alone should contribute 150,000 TWh for the necessary electricity for world-wide prosperity and planetary restoration.
It's not about whether the shares will be worth 100 times or 1000 times more in 20 years' time or whether they will only be worth a few cents. It's about the future of us all. Will there be a big showdown between eco-fascism and yesterday's fossils, or will it be possible to overcome the deep divisions in society and inspire supporters of both sides to work towards a great new goal? Global prosperity and planetary restoration instead of saving, restricting, renouncing and climate catastrophe or peak oil and a little more climate catastrophe. Both sides must be convinced that they have no solution that is even remotely viable. On the one hand, it must be shown that net-zero emissions are a completely inadequate target and that the goal must instead be a planetary clean-up back to 350 ppm CO2. The other side must be shown that solar power enables a higher standard of living than fossil energy. It's about survival! The social situation in 2025 compared to 2005, extrapolated to 2045, makes for a horror world! If we are successful and your shares are worth 100 times more, this is just an addition to all the other achievements. One new shareholder said "Me with my very modest investment", but €400 times €1,000 is also €400,000 for all investments up to the creation of the prototype. There is a reward program for recommending the share to others. Two of the new shareholders have become shareholders through this reward program. Here are the details.
The situation has changed fundamentally since this company visited Slovakia. Necessary investment volume reduced by around 90%. Time to marketable product shortened by around one year. The 90% reduction in investment volume also means that each shareholder has significantly more shares. The share price is now lifted towards our targets at each milestone. These milestones can happen in all areas: Financial, new shareholders, new opportunities to attract new shareholders. Contracts to build the prototype, more houses and settlements. Cooperations for realization. Purchase, arrival and testing of important technical components. |
