Notorious for his foul language, Portuguese Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis (the fourth largest car manufacturer in the world), on the occasion of the presentation of last year’s results of the company, said that the Euro-7 standard, which should come into force in 2025, does not make sense.
The Samara Institute for Automotive Market Research writes a lot about this case (based on reports from Reuters and Automotive News Europe). According to Carlos Tavares, some of the decisions envisaged with Euro 7 to tighten emission levels from cars (including nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide) are “useless”.
A standard that works against the environment
Not only that, some of the new rules on emissions, in his opinion, would be counterproductive. The head of Stellantis (the concern includes: Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Opel, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Fiat, Dodge, Ram and others) decided that the Euro-7 standard “does not help in anything, it is expensive, it does not bring customers any benefit, nor the environment. “The part about emissions from combustion cars just doesn’t make sense,” he said.
Carlos Tavares has previously criticized the Euro 7 standard as a waste of time and money because its implementation would require carmakers to invest in technologies to reduce emissions in fossil fuel models, which the European Union intends to ban from 2035 anyway.
Electromobility yes, but standard no
The head of Stellantis also said that Stellantis will limit the number of Euro 7 applications to a minimum, while aiming to increase the share of electric models in its offer as soon as possible. At the same time, however, Tavares praised the rules associated with the new Euro 7 standard aimed at reducing particulate emissions from brakes and tyres.
Rise of the big manufacturers
As IBRM Samar recalls, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) has previously also criticized the Euro-7 standard. The organization claims that, according to recent studies, the renewal of the current Euro 6 vehicle fleet, together with the electrification of new vehicles, will lead to an 80 percent reduction in NOx emissions from road transport by 2035 (compared to before 2020). At the same time, the most stringent Euro 7 scenarios (i.e. zero NOx and particulate matter limits) would reduce NOx emissions from road transport by less than 4%. in the case of cars and vans compared to the Euro 6d level and by about 2 per cent. in the case of trucks.
Source: Wprost
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