The European car industry's cooperation organization ACEA is now openly complaining that motorists are not buying enough electric cars. They want the EU to relax emissions requirements.
The EU must relax the emission requirements from the car factories' internal combustion engines, according to the car brands themselves.
There are simply not enough electric cars being bought, says the car industry's cooperation organization ACEA. And in any case, not enough at all for the car manufacturers to keep their businesses running under the upcoming requirements.
Specifically, the car brands must reduce to an average CO2 limit of 93.6 grams from the current and future model range. And if the car brands can't do that, there are hefty stalls.
And there are a lot of car brands that can't do that. BMW and Volkswagen have already said they want to be allowed to emit more CO2. And now the rest of ACEA agrees.
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– We cannot meet these emission targets due to the reduced demand for electric cars and competition from third countries.
– The car industry in the EU will have no choice but to reduce production, which threatens millions of jobs and reduces our competitiveness, writes ACEA in a letter to the EU Commission.
Therefore, the organization also proposes that the EU postpone the future emission limits by two years. The car brands think this is enough time to speed up sales of electric cars.
As it looks now, only the Chinese Geely group (including Volvo and Polestar, ed.) and Tesla meet the EU's upcoming emissions requirements. All other car brands are well above the limit and can therefore 'look forward to' stalls in the billion class.
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