“The decision to establish the euro 7 standard for light commercial vehicles and trucks is stupid. Because these are impossible times and contradict the choice to focus on electric. This is the result of a European policy in the hands of people who don’t know the automotive”. So in an interview published in La Stampa the CEO of Iveco Gerrit Marx. “They can ask us to invest with Euro 7 in reducing emissions from heat engines – he explains – or, alternatively, to invest in electric motors.
But not investing in both at the same time in the next 10 years”. “Decisions – he adds – are taken by three different working groups: the environment, transport and industry.
Added to this are the personal ambitions of those who decide. There are politicians who have never driven a truck, but they explain to you how mass, dimensions, length should be”. Whoever decided on the euro 7 standard, according to Marx, “simply formed a working group with industry experts.
Which are also the suppliers of the companies and have every interest in making the standard difficult to achieve.
They create work for themselves”. The electric car? “The electric utility car is a car for the rich. The idea of totally abolishing heat engines is a choice that risks transforming Europe into a large Cuba. Because our supply chain will close its doors. And those who don’t switch to electric cars will have to go and get spare parts from old cars. Like in Cuba”.
Source: Ansa
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