That is going to take years. Petrol stations already have the infrastructure and mostly make their money from the small store and not selling petrol. Germany and most of Europe are densly populated, so refineries shutting down, is not going to cause that much of a logistics problem either. Sweden and Finland might see that happen though, due to being less densly populated.

It would require a massive drop in ICE cars on the road to increase petrol prices in a country like Germany. I very much doubt it is going to happen in the coming decade.

Their real fear is that their electric car won’t take them the 1500km to their holiday destination, without any stops, with a caravan in tow, which they will do once per year.

And they can do that with fast charging and there are enough fast chargers. This fear is going to go away, as friends and family members buy EVs. The sales numbers are pretty good and prices for EVs are falling, so this is probably going to happen in a lot of cases. Especially with “cheap” German branded EVs like the VW ID.Polo and new subsidies. Germany is past the early adopter phase for EVs and in the early mass market phase already.

You can not just dig down anywhere. You need the right kind of rock and in a formation large enough that you can dig down and be sure, that no water can ever touch the nuclear waste and transport the nuclear material to the surface. That geology is pretty rarer.

BEV sales in France are 20% of cars sold and in Germany it is 19.1% in 2025. So it is pretty similar, but Germany has had much faster growth recently, so it is very possible that this is going to change this year.

The 2003 referdum had 42.02% wanting the Euro and 55.91% against it. So not even close to 90% of Sweds and also over 22years ago. Also there are recent polls with a majority for adopting the Euro in Sweden. It seems to vary widely, depending on the pollster though. So it seems like Sweden has not really had the debate recently.

Slovakia also had a lot of heavy industry, due to Czechoslovakia wanting that to be as far away from NATO as possible. Those skills were easily transfered to making cars. It is also a small country, so per capita is easy to reach. Clusters make a lot of sense. A lot of sense, as different car companies often have the same suppliers.

Also Slovakia has the Euro.