Going to European CO2 legislation for ” our ” manufacturers demolition?

Posted on 12-06-2015 at 22:15 by JordyS – 68 Comments”

European automakers are serious concerns about the increasingly stringent requirements in terms of CO2 emissions. Because, say they: and we play outside Europe does not play such an important role.

The European Union wants new cars from 2021, on average, not more than 95 grams of CO2 per kilometre emissions. That sounds like a very noble pursuit, but for European manufacturers are in danger of financial disaster. They will quite need to invest to the average CO2 emissions (now 123,4 grams per kilometre) to decrease, which makes the production cost per car, with 2,000 euro to rise.

The European manufacturers also hope that the politics even wants to look at the proposed standard, reports Automotive News. In fact, the European alliance of automobile manufacturers (ACEA) has, preferably, that the EU is somewhere else looking for. “For example, have them look at improving our driving habits, the infrastructure or intelligent transport systems”, according to Renault boss and ACEA president Carlos Ghosn, for example.

His statements are, of course, exactly at the right time, because the responsible EU politicians to start next week with discussions about how to further reduce CO2 emissions. Ghosn and his European colleagues will want to avoid them even more difficult than already happens.