This will be the third year of steep budget cuts for most of these countries, yet policy makers in Brussels, Frankfurt and Berlin think it the bare minimum to maintain market confidence.
The intent of this warranty is to provide consumers with confidence that despite this normal battery capacity loss, they will be assured of a minimum level of capacity throughout the warranty period.
It leaves mostly the hope that somehow or other the inflow of cash and artificial stimulus last year jump-started confidence enough to feed a continuation of the recovery on its own, and that this is only a minimum pause to collect itself.