Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares attended the Financial Times Future of the Car where he talked about several things and, in particular, he addressed the topic of the chip crisis which is putting a strain on the manufacturers already; heavily affected by the outbreak of the pandemic and the advent of mobility; electric .
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Speaking of mobility; electric, Tavares & egrave; been very critical of politics stating that the switch to electric vehicles & egrave; it was a decision taken from above and imposed with “ brutality '' by governments and not decided by car manufacturers.
If you offer mobility; clean only accessible to wealthy customers, you won't have a significant impact on carbon emissions. & Egrave; difficult to sell a 30,000 euro battery electric car when people can buy the corresponding traditional model halfway through price.
The challenge of the builders will be; that of maintaining mobility; electric accessible to aim at reducing polluting emissions. Moreover, to achieve the environmental objectives & egrave; Everyone needs to be able to switch to battery-powered vehicles. But this work certainly not easy and onerous is; further complicated by the chip crisis. On this issue, the CEO of Stellantis & egrave; was very clear pointing out that manufacturers are now forced to completely overhaul their supply chains to try to stem this problem.
In fact, due to the chip supply crisis, car manufacturers have had to stop production, which is hindering recovery from the pandemic. Moreover, today the cars are more and more; technological and therefore are heavily dependent on semiconductors. For Tavares, more & ugrave; long will last this crisis is & quot; more & ugrave; difficult will be; support the & # 39; current business model of the & quot; automotive industry & quot ;.
The Stellantis Group said last week that the chip shortage should improve in the second half. of 2021, but he had also added that the problems could still last until 2022. To all this then a further problem is added and that is; the increase in the prices of raw materials.
Tavares then tackled the topic of autonomous driving , underlining that & quot; will not take & agrave; never the upper hand completely & quot; and that there will be; always room for fun behind the wheel of a car. And speaking of his current work within Stellantis, the CEO wanted to reiterate that there will be no space problems for the premium brands Alfa Romeo, Lancia and DS as they are perfectly complementary.
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