is likely The type to Talk! By the Coronavirus and the complete decommissioning of the production facilities already arg-stricken car industry would like to get some air: Since January, more stringent CO2 apply fleet-limits for new Cars. Now the industry hopes that the EU will loosen these CO2 targets. Behind-the-Scenes talks and negotiations are apparently already. So the car manufacturers want to move in even longer-lasting Corona-crisis for 2021 agreed level of CO2 regulation and the likely CO2 penalties in the billions of expose in.
VW group chief Herbert Diess said that he did not know very well from discussions of a “first, then becoming colder CO2-criminal regime”, to be the group participating but it. “A suspension of CO2 penalties is currently not being discussed at Volkswagen”, it means from the VW group spokesman officially. Also, Daimler-CEO Ola Källenius said publicly: “We are one of those who have sought a change in the emission guidelines.”
Ex-EU Commissioner calls for loosening
The sector receives prominent support by the former German EU Commissioner, the CDU-man and political Advisor to Günther Oettinger, the power compared to the German “Automobilwoche” for an easing of the CO2 goals. “The policy should not insist on requirements that were decided under other business basics.” No one can predict how the Mix of vehicles and the proportion of electric cars in this or next year, given the crisis will change. Therefore, Oettinger proposes that the manufacturer should make your sales and CO2 emissions in a transparent and consultation with the EU in Brussels are looking for, if the targets are due to the crisis out of reach.
It is up to 20 billion Euro penalty
According to threaten various studies threaten European manufacturers penalties of 15 to 20 billion euros if the fleet limit of an average of 95 g CO2/km will not be reached until 2021. Oettinger stressed: “We are talking here about a key industry with many millions of jobs in the whole of Europe, the competitiveness of which is to receive it.”
It is hoped on uncomplicated solutions
of Course, the Swiss car importers are looking forward to Germany and Brussels. So Amag-speaker Dino Graf says: “the achievement of the CO2 targets requires a large number of purely or partially electrically powered vehicles.” By means of the Corona pandemic is likely to decline in the coming months, both the demand for E-cars and Plug-in hybrids as well as their availability greatly. Graf: “Against this Background, we expect for the industry in the worst case, only for the fleet of new people 2020 car with criminal payments in the three-digit million range, the amount of which we do not have to answer by the corona crisis itself.” Therefore, only the Amag does not hopes to have uncomplicated solutions, in order to charge the Swiss car industry once again, through no fault of over charge. “This could have happened,” said the count, “for example, by a relaxation of the CO2 limits for 2020, or any other measures in this direction.”
Now the CO2 target values utopian
Similar to Andreas Burgener, Director of the importer Association Auto-Schweiz sees it: “The CO2 target values would be in a normal market situation is not accessible. So you will but to a complete utopia! We are watching very closely what are the possible adjustments to the EU is now made to the CO2 legislation for this and, possibly, in the coming years. Accordingly, we will present our proposals for Switzerland.” Still, it was too early to be specific. Because the requirements in Switzerland are basically geared to those of the EU. “And this is not likely to be,” says Burgener, “by foreseeable adjustments to times of crisis, much different.” A spokeswoman for the EU Commission, on request, align: “at The present time, we cannot speculate on the potential impact in individual policy areas.”
