While many of the world’s car manufacturers are in a hurry to announce the moment when they will stop using internal combustion engines in their cars, the German car manufacturer BMW is one of those that is not in a hurry, and the chairman of the board of the Bavarian manufacturer, Oliver Cipse, has repeatedly defended internal combustion engines, stating that they have and will play an important role in mobility. provision.
Speaking at a conference in Frankfurt, Cipse said that BMW’s reluctance to set a deadline for internal combustion engines does not mean that the manufacturer lacks initiative in the development of new technologies, he was quoted as saying by the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Cipse also points out that it would be wrong to disparage the products and technologies that are used today.
Cipse took the opportunity to touch on the topic of synthetic, or e-fuels, which is seen as one way to keep internal combustion engines on the streets for longer. It is estimated that there are more than 1.4 billion vehicles in the world. It is impossible to replace all of them with an electric car in a relatively short time for various reasons. The Chairman of the Board of BMW notes that, although electric cars do not produce emissions during operation, the production of the machines themselves does produce them – it is not a harmless process. According to him, synthetic fuel is one of the ways to ensure that already produced cars stay on the road longer without causing additional damage.
BMW is one of the car manufacturers that continues to develop power unit technologies in various directions – they develop new generation internal combustion engines, develop electric car power units, and work on hydrogen technologies continues together with Toyota. BMW management also thinks that if the sale of cars with internal combustion engines were banned, people would try to keep their existing cars with internal combustion engines as long as possible. The reason is quite simple – no matter how hard manufacturers try, electric cars are in any case more expensive than versions with internal combustion engines. We see this especially clearly in models that have both internal combustion engine and electric versions. Although BMW itself is a premium class car manufacturer and their cars (at least new ones) are not for everyone, Cipse points out that people are in any case not ready and able to pay a higher amount for an electric car. He also does not forget to note the obvious – in many parts of the world, the charging infrastructure is absolutely not ready for a mass transition.
BMW, however, has far-reaching goals for electric cars – by the end of this year, 15% of all deliveries should be electric cars, while by the end of this decade they want to achieve that every second BMW sold is electric. The new Neue Klasse electric cars, which will start arriving at customers in 2025, will be very important in achieving these goals, promising significant performance improvements compared to the current BMW electric cars, which are already competitive overall.
2023-12-15 09:30:00
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