Europe is part of a form of quasi-coercive policy vis-à-vis industrialists working in the transport sector. In addition to asking them to produce in a more virtuous way (with these famous factories supposedly carbon neutral), the European Commission has just validated its roadmap for the current decade.
It will thus be necessary to reduce carbon emissions by 90% compared to 1990, and this, from 2050. The vice-president of the “climate” committee of the parliament did not stop at road transport. Air and rail will have to make efforts: “We have increasing transport needs, and at the same time, we must reduce the environmental burden … There are already simple things to change: there are for example ten flights a day between Brussels and Amsterdam, so that there is the train“, explains Frans Timmermans.
The airline will have to offer “emission-free” wide-body aircraft from 2035, while by 2030, all public transport journeys of less than 500 km must imperatively be carbon neutral, with “more freight “(+ 50%). Europe also plans to double high-speed trains in ten years.
Europe will do it in two stages for road transport: the tightening of standards for cars, first, from next summer, and then, the following issue: heavy goods vehicles, from 2022.
The European Commission plans to have 30 million “zero-emission” cars on the roads from 2030. This therefore involves battery-powered electric vehicles but also, why not, fuel cell cars. And the network will have to follow: it will need 3 million additional public charging points by 2030 in Europe. When we sometimes see the slow deployment of certain recharging networks of organizations and private companies, we obviously ask questions.
Add to that some restrictions from 2030 in some countries for the combustion car, and you can be sure that the major automotive groups are starting now to wonder if it is still worth investing hundreds of millions of dollars. euros for heat engines (including hybrids) which are in any case doomed to disappear, and soon unsalable.
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