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After a rough few years, startup investment in Europe is showing life again. DW speaks with an industry insider – Christian Bauer of clean-tech fundraiser InnoEnergy – about what’s working, which areas are thriving and where European startups are still falling behind.
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Date: October 7, 2025
Millions in Europe and Billions in the US. It’s just a feeding tube
It's interesting to compare the government backing of Telsa verses Sono Motors in their ealy years.
Telsa got i believe it was about 800 million USD loan from the US government when they were a startup business just starting out.
Sono Motors (German electric car company) got 27 thousand Euros from a region government or bank or something, and they fell short on investments and failed to go in to production, they need a couple of hundred million Euros for all the tooling of the factory when they stopped that. They still exist as a solar company but don't make cars, but their prototypes were production ready.
Same in India 🇮🇳
Damn now imagine if we had a strong federal government that could host a unified continent spanning stock exchange and coordinate big investments into strategic industries like electric cars… oh the infinite potential of the EU, makes a man dream. Nah, f that, lets vote afd ig.
Still same old sotry Europe making investment in to aleready proven concepts so it will still remain behind us that takes the paying risk
Get rid off all the red tape! Make it easier to get investment
Europe can not rise without high risk investments. China USA and middle east are robbing us from our money and talents. We must accelarate more and UE must be more united. EU states are to egoistic.
Lol for me I'm Germany energy costs around 40cents/kwh idk where he got 25cents but everywhere I look it's around 35-40