The numbers on European registrations in January 2023 have provided assistance to Carlos Tavares to stimulate Europe on the need of incentives to support the transition to electric power made mandatory by law. The dynamics observed in Germany, according to the CEO of Stellantis, is; emblematic of what that asks and serves the market.
In January, electric car registrations went up by 22.9% in Europe, but among the few markets to have limited the percentage, besides Italy, there was also Germany, where the Scholz government, which also includes the Greens, has cut the incentives for electricity. In short, the sales of battery-powered cars are heavily dependent on incentives, without them going into crisis.
So Tavares on the occasion of the presentation of the 2022 results of the Stellantis group shared his concerns, warning lawmakers that electrics risk being too expensive for the middle class. In other words: stop to endothermics and from 2035 only zero emission cars? All right, but the conditions must exist for it to be completed. people can afford to buy a car. “If without incentives electric cars are still too expensive for the middle class, today as today electrification is not an option. accessible", said Tavares, even if the point is “How quickly will we be able to reduce costs to sell battery-powered cars even without incentives.”
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Incentives that should be able to attract not only the consumer, but also the companies themselves. Overseas, the Inflation Reduction Act with its 400 billion dollars for the green transition also attracts European companies and leads to a de facto balance between the costs of a thermal car and those of an electric one,while Europe still has nothing like it. The CEO also dedicated a passage to the Euro 7 standard which will enter the European Union. in force in July 2025, another measure which, according to him, risks further weakening a market that already has a lot of problems ahead of it. hard times: & egrave; essentially useless, because; it raises costs in the face of little or no benefits for the environment and health.
We have an obvious cost challenge – explained Tavares. Those in excess will have to be absorbed, otherwise the market will shrink. and so; the companies. The prospect in terms of employment effects would not be good. [We need] to optimize every possible aspect to put technology within the reach of citizens: clean, safe and accessible technology. We take responsibility for it. to adapt to this world which is; been decided by the citizens. In 2022, we proved that we can deal with change.
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