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- electric_vehicles@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- electric_vehicles@lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/38429484
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Don’t we have enough European car makers too dependent on China already?
Tavares (the CEO of Stellantis) said he did not agree with the tariffs, which he said were introduced to correct “the strategic mistake” of [banning new gasoline and diesel cars and vans] by 2035
I don‘t get this. The EU needs a lot of EVs by 2035, how do the tariffs facilitate that?
I am pretty sure the clue as to why the EU really has imposed tariffs is in the article: to bring manufacturing back to Europe.
First of all the EU only bans sales of new diesel and gasoline cars and vans by 2035. You will still be allowed to drive them and also to sell and buy them second hand. So no need to have a massive EV fleet by then.
The other problem is not that the EU does not produce cars, but that it does not produce enough EVs. It is a huge industry and China is subsidizing its green industry by a factor of three to nine times more money then the OECD average. Europe just can not compete with that without government action.
I think that doesn‘t answer the question how he thinks the tariffs correct the „mistake“ of Europe‘s ICE legislation