The planned ban on the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines in the EU in 2035 aims to reduce CO2 emissions from transport. However, erudite voices are heard, which also mention the other side of the coin. Stellantis head Carlos Tavares has now joined them.
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“It is clear that electrification is a technology of choice for politics, not the automotive industry,” Tavares said from interviews with several European media, including Germany’s Handelsblatt and Italy’s Corriere della Sera.
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He did not spare criticism of the plan: “I do not think that governments will be able to continue to subsidize the sale of electric cars at the current level, it is not sustainable from a budgetary point of view,” he added, adding that the brutality of change creates social risks. “It should not be forgotten that this will have social consequences and we risk losing the middle class, which will no longer be able to buy cars,” he said.
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“In Europe’s current energy mix, an electric car needs 70,000 kilometers to offset the carbon footprint of battery production and start catching up with hybrid vehicles, which cost half of what electric cars do,” he said, adding that there were faster and cheaper ways to reduce oxide emissions. carbon dioxide.
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According to him, the chosen path does not leave the carmakers room for creativity, for various ideas. According to him, carmakers must multiply the productivity of their work in order to be able to compensate for 50% higher costs for the production of electric cars.
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