Already in October 2024, at the Paris automobile show, the boss of BMW Oliver Zipse declared that the European Union had to give up the ban on vehicles emitting carbon dioxide planned for 2035. The boss of BMW Group estimated while the coming prohibition would force Europe to always depend on Chinese batteries to make electric vehicles.
The boss of BMW puts a layer on European Union policy
During a recent exchange with the press on the sidelines of the presentation of a new model to come, this same Oliver Zipse strongly criticized the policy of the European Union, calling it “disaster likely to destroy the automotive industry“.
The CEO of BMW was however confident as to the evolution of European regulations, believing that a solution will be found by 2028. According to him, the issues are too important for the European Union to maintain its current position without adaptation. “” “The German network can adapt to 50 % of electric cars. Not 100 %. And it takes 30 to 40 years to adapt a network”He specifies.
“You will never hear ourselves say that we call into question the objective of carbon neutrality in 2050. But only watching the exhaust emissions is not the best solution“Indicates the boss of BMW. The latter also explains that a technological neutrality is necessary, reminding who wants to hear it that an electric car emits 40% of CO2 more to manufacturing than a thermal car.
Favorable to real technological neutrality, Oliver Zipse believes that immediately spread out certain alternatives, such as hydrogen or synthetic fuels, would constitute a strategic error for the future of the automotive industry.
According to him, hydrogen represents the only technology that Europe can develop locally, without strongly depending on Asia, which makes it a major strategic asset for industrial sovereignty of the continent.
On the side of the electric market, remember that Dacia is working on a new model whose price could be located below the € 15,000 mark. At Lucid, we recently traveled a total of 1,205 km aboard an electric car in a single recharge, while a French start-up puts everything on a new form of recharge for our electric cars, namely wireless recharge (by induction), as for our smartphones.
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