Sunday, November 3, 2024

Citroën refuses to abandon petrol cars to make electric cars

Citroën has no plans to impose restrictions on the sale of petrol cars in order to meet politically set targets for electric cars.

Citroën has no plans to stop selling petrol cars.

Not even if it will help the brand to achieve the number of electric cars that the EU has determined that all car brands must sell already from next year.

This is what the car brand's managing director Thierry Koskas says in an interview with AutoCar in connection with the Paris Motor Show.

According to Koska, it would be 'a shame' to limit the sale of petrol cars just to meet the EU's emission requirements.

Instead, the French brand will try to make its electric cars as useful as possible. At the same time, customers must be 'dressed up' for owning an electric car.

READ ALSO: Electric car for DKK 800,000 got roadside assistance on the first day: "Not uncommon"

However, Koskas revealed that only 10 percent of Citroën's sales in Europe are made up of electric cars. Far from the percentages that the EU will demand from the turn of the year from all car manufacturers present in the union.

– Ultimately, we must be able to respond to a mobility need. At the same time as we comply with both England's and the EU's regulations on CO2 emissions.

– So I need to create a natural demand for electric cars, says Thierry Koskas.

One of the ways Citroën is trying to do that is with the new ë-C3. A car which, despite a very long delay, is set to become Denmark's absolute cheapest electric car. Read more about it here.

– I really believe that the market is moving because we do not want to reach the point where we have to limit the demand for or the production of cars with internal combustion engines because we do not sell enough electric cars, says Thierry Koskas.

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