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argentinians are making ends meet. and while a green future could rely on batteries made from rare earths, the batteries themselves, post environmental problems of their own, we'll take a look at one possible solution. hello and welcome back to the w business. i'm christy plaza with you from berlin. electric car maker tesla has dominated the electric vehicle market for several, several years. but rivals around the globe have been catching up and now teslas slashing its prices. in the us, in europe, tesla's cutting prices on some models up to 20 percent. the company recently lowered prices and china and japan due to sales problems as well. well for more on this, let's bring in teddy austro, he's at the new york stock exchange for us now. teddy. hi. this is the 2nd price cut for testers. lower price models in 3 months. what did investors make of the news of this latest cut? well, christy investors aren't particularly happy, we saw the stock go down a little bit. however, investors haven't been particularly happy with tesla for the past several months.

they are distrusting of tesla to really keep its market share of the e v. market to compete with all of these e v companies that are now springing up. but, you know, turn back the clock about a year and we're looking at fat profit margins. we are looking at a happy wall street. and now in 2022. what we are seeing is with the rising rates, with tesla, simply not meeting its sales targets, as well as the chaotic take over of twitter by you must, which made investors fearful that he would divert attention from tesla. what we're seeing now is investors, well, it's not a great start to the year for tesla to say it shortly. okay, so what i'm hearing is that just the market malays is also at play here. i mean, but you're talking about other competition in the electric vehicle market. give me some context here. what's going on in that space? well, we're looking at a pretty different e v market than even just

a year ago. simply, there are more e v on the road. we saw sales job by about 2 thirds. so it's a pretty huge jump in the market. and of course there is now more of a diversity of ease on the road. tesla, of course, had 72 percent of sales on the market in 2021. now that is down to 65 percent. that got being filled by ford be filled by honda. so consumers are buying their e v 's and they are getting a boost right from the inflation reduction act which was passed last year. and that gave tax credits to the manufacturers if they meet certain guidelines for their e. v. 's. ok, well some people are saying that the price cut is a sign of desperation. that tesla can't get the stock to move. others are saying it's sort of a genius, strategic move to start a price for with these legacy automakers. i mean, do you think that's prescott is likely to turn demand for testers around wo

tesla, the demand for tesla isn't going to go down any time soon. tesla is a major player still, and the manufacturer is other ones still have to catch up. and of course, this cut in prices probably will stoke more demand. that is because these prices have put the vehicles more of their vehicles into the threshold to get those tax credits. i was just talking about from the inflation reduction act. and that can be up to $7500.00. so consumers are certainly gonna be looking towards the vehicles that will qualify for those tax credit. you mosque, of course, was complaining about these guidelines. prior i'm saying it's exclusive of test flows and other vehicle manufacturers. but the demand for test was, is down compared to years prior. and yes, we'll have to see whether these price cars actually are going to show up at that demand. well, that bonus certainly does sound attractive. teddy auster, thanks so much for that. well here in europe,

inflation around 10 percent has hit people very hard. meanwhile in argentina, consumer price growth hit nearly 95 percent in 2022. that's the highest annual figure in more than 30 years. so according to the countries statistics institute, now prices for daily staples, in particular, rose last year, while salaries have not kept pace with inflation. runaway price hikes for groceries or eating away at the purchasing power of argentines. cooking oil shut up more than 450 per cent last year. the price for milk more than tripled. the cost of living in argentina's out of control, despite the implementation of multiple price control schemes that the government set up in conjunction with supermarket chains and suppliers. what reality i'm effect in my daily life. inflation affects me as opposed like all argentines in all aspects. i mean, you have no security, you can't plan,

you can't project anything into the future. we effect i la area inflation affects me too. especially with food i c, k, m. and so unfortunately, i have to adapt and use all the promotions and coupons that they are offering us and also kind of a kinda argentina has been grappling with an economic crisis for years. there are many causes of inflation, including a persistent budget deficit and external factors like the warn ukraine that has affected energy and grain prices. that's why latin america's 3rd largest economy now has one of the highest inflation rates in the world. and since incomes and pensions do not keep up with rising prices, almost 40 percent of argentines live in poverty. now. while g 7 countries in december agreed to allow russian oil imports on to the world market only at a maximum price of $60.00 per barrel. that move was meant to put pressure on moscow

over its war in ukraine, as well as stabilize the global prior global oil price. now, just over a month later, progress on both fronts seems to have been made since europe stopped importing russian tank or oil, it's priced has plummeted, especially for crude oil that was destined for the european market. this is causing heavy losses in revenue from commodities that are important to the russian treasury . according to a new analysis by a finish energy think tank, it's costing russian estimated $160000000.00 euros per day. if additional measures are taken before february 5th. the economic damage is expected to rise to 280000000 euro a day. the import band and price cap lead to a 32 percent drop in russian oil revenue in december. we can actually say that this is very close to what the original gauze off these measures were. now what we don't know is exactly which measure is causing which effect. so we have on the one hand,

the you, which stopped importing most of russian oil in early december. so this is basically russia losing a big market. and on the other hand, we have a shipping band which makes it very hard for russia to send or to other markets. and both together are sort of causing russia to, to have, it's are at, to, to have to sound. it's are very cheap. now. russia's trying to sell its oil to other regions like india, but that can only be done at deep discounts. now to some of the other global business stories making this in an unusual move, apple. c o tim cook is taking a voluntary pay cut of more than 40 percent this year. he said it was in response to shareholder feedback, but fear not, he won't suffer too much. despite the cut cook's compensation for 2023 will still be $49000000.00, and probably more once bonuses and stock rewards kickin. bosnia herzegovina is the

latest country to hop on the electric vehicle bandwagon. it's locally produced, its 1st e. v, which has a solar power panel on its roof and can cover 100 kilometers with one charge. it can also carry a load of up to $300.00 kalakaua killer. clos, akilah, sorry, rare earth are an essential component of many green technologies, especially batteries used in electric cars and for storing excess when power. but mining rare earth is destructive in its own right. and a battery company in germany thinks they found a way to make do without them. traditionally, lodge batteries contain lithium or cobalt. extracting these materials is tough on the environment. here in the southern german province of franconia, a new organic battery system is set to revolutionize how we store sustainably generated electricity. cm blues organic solid flow battery doesn't use re earths. once the battery busting our organic solid flow battery is based on fully

recyclable, organic materials that are available all over the world. these plastics are all recyclable and also biodegradable you about. it was peter gaggle, his idea to come up with a groundbreaking new way of storing electricity. the medical doctor founded sea and blue with a seed capital of 80000000 euros. to help with that of hurdles, i became very interested in how nature generates transports and stores energy and human cells. and it's a fascinating field, especially when you consider that nature uses only organic molecules to store energy and doesn't use any metals or even gardens. mackarath the company hopes of pilot project in mid 2023 will prove the new technology works on a large scale in practice. the plan is to produce the large scale green battery in significant numbers. first in germany, and then in the usa in 2024. within a gun class,

obviously we have to follow the markets. you have to go where the technology is in demand on a large scale. america is simply further ahead than europe. but i think europe will follow, and we're looking forward to that. i hope a bit foreign on the appointment will the company currently has a 170 employees to ensure it keeps growing. c, m blue is negotiating with new investors. they're looking for more than $200000000.00 in fresh capital. the demand for batteries is expected to grow strongly. lithium batteries will continue to be used in computers and cars. but when it comes to bulk energy storage, the new technology on see a blue could prevail had of, of quinton, under guns, w. basically, this is a very serious proposition, and it's also an exciting and thrilling technology. it promises to significantly improve electrochemical storage on a large scale. hello dorothy. hi,

beth m. c m blue wants to establish a large part of its production in the u. s. to begin with, but research and development will stay in germany. and a reminder of the top business story we're following for you this. our electric car maker tesla has slashed prices by 20 percent in the u. s. in europe to try and hold onto its domine of the electric vehicle market. that's our show for more you can check us out on the w dot com backslash business. i'm christy plots. and thanks for watching. what making the headlights and what's behind them? dw news africa, the show that was the issue, shaping the continent. life is slowly getting back to normally where on the street to give you enough reports on the inside our corresponding with on the ground

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