Seeing "Powers of Ten" on TV is an early childhood memory, it really made a lasting impression. Of course I did not remember its name, but now I finally could watch it again! Thank you!
Had to scroll surprisingly far to find this comment thread. My ears sometimes react the same way on unexpected noises in a silent environment. However, I can not move my ears voluntarily, none at all.
One of the main reasons why I decided to buy a Hyundai (i30) last year is the good cockpit design. Physical buttons for the essential controls, touchscreen for nav, some extras and settings.
The UX in some car brands is so horrible I really struggle to unterstand how anyone would ever build/buy those atrocities.
You are right, the average car trip is covered by plugin hybrids.
I was referring to business trips, i.e. the typical clientele of the car types in my OP. The average business driving distance (not commute) is twice the average of all drives. (source: Chapter 3.2 in [1])
If only businessmen/fieldstaff/etc. are taken into account and no craftsmen/tradesmen numbers would be even higher. (read: drivers of said premium hybrids vs. box wagons)
If I understand that correctly, the survey includes all kinds of trips, including short daily drives grocery shopping and commutes.
I think typical business trips in Germany are significantly above that average, but I might be wrong.
edit: Anecdotal: My father-in-law is a typical German field staff. Average daily driving distance is ~60 miles. And he certainly would not charge the car at home over night, from his private electricity bill. I doubt many people would.
Blatant and obvious lobbying by the extremely powerful German car industry.
The subsidy includes premium brand plug-in hybrids such as BMW 330e and Mercedes C class - i.e. typical company cars that will very rarely use the electric engine.
As gibolt mentioned, it also helps VW selling their new models.
Why not subsidize public transport instead?
Why has the German government been unable to make (useful) climate protection laws in the past years, but these odd subsidies are no problem?
My workplace has such a MitM gateway where every host has a company root CA installed and every SSL certificate we receive in the browser is an interchanged one. Fair enough.
However, the huge problem is that employees are completely left in the dark about this privacy invasion... only the tech-savvy ones notice and understand it.