Yesterday’s automotive summit with the European industrial associations ACEA and CLEPA, the third year, did not bring the hoped -for progress. “Despite repeated announcements, it should have been corrected to hold on to pure-electric cars.
In the run-up to the summit, the European umbrella organizations had urged to release all technical options for reducing CO2 emissions (including hybrids, fuel and extension of the range). The narrowing to an option that electrical drive damages the European producers. The fewer cars are produced in Europe, the stronger it affects the supplier, also a previous parade industry. “Austria is one of the countries that are most affected by loss of workplace,” emphasizes Jürgen Roth.
The chain of wrong decisions is extended because you listen to the wrong
It seems as if the commission president fell into misinformation again. Transport & Environment stated that the manufacturers could achieve the goals and therefore no longer had to buy certificates from the competition like Tesla and BYD.
Jürgen Roth: “She should have listened to the car manufacturers, to whom the crowds in billions of billions rob their economic power they need for the transformation. Unfortunately, the 2019 Commission’s calculation models turned out to be inaccurate, otherwise we would not have the problem. The new calculations are just as unrealistic.” The bad speeches of the hybrids, which arrive much better than the Reinelectric cars on the market, must also be rejected.
Greenpeace, on the other hand, has announced that consumers should be protected from high fuel prices due to ivy. “Nothing but crocodile tears – as if Greenpeace had ever worried about drivers. If electrical driving were cheaper, there is no ban on the competitive technologies. The fact is that electricity is becoming more expensive due to the inevitable huge investments in networks and storage, so the green burners in the germ,” explains the alliance boss.
Europe is under the worst stress of Russia (increase in defense spending up to 5% of GDP), China (controls raw materials for electric cars) and the USA (15% import customs for cars from the EU). “Ms. von der Leyen would have to eliminate unnecessary, homemade stress factors such as the controversial electrical pressure from the beginning,” Jürgen Roth is surprised at the hinged EU authority. “We must not exchange dependency (natural gas from Russia) through a much larger one (with raw materials and batteries over 80%). To put European locations for another three months, the families and regions affected by job losses will not be well received,” Mr. Roth is annoyed.
The EU has to act quickly if the hut burns
“If fire breaks out, the fire brigade is called immediately and not in three months. It is incomprehensible that the Commission now needs a break in thought again when the flashes already take the flash on the left and right and the hut begins to burn,” criticizes Jürgen Roth.
Ursula von der Leyen expressly promised before and after her re-election as an EK President to ensure that the technology is open again. She breaks this promise when she clings to “Electric only”. The fact that she now wants to force small cheap electric cars do not relieve the need for European manufacturers, because Asian competition could skim off the cream even more than in the upscale categories where EU brands are strong.
The auto industry has achieved partial success with the preferring of the revision of the limit values, but nobody can be happy about it. The decline is not stopped, but prolonged. “The voters who gave their voice from the Leyen expect to implement their promise immediately,” demands Jürgen Roth.