Stricter CO2 emission limits adopted by the EU and new exhaust gas testing methods are pushing Europe’s car industry to the “brink of collapse,” Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess has warned.
Diess lamented that the EU’s campaign against conventional cars was “threatening the very existence” of Germany’s car industry.
Diess also attacked the proposed switch to electric cars as detrimental to the environment because Germany’s electricity systems is still dominated by coal-fired power generation.
“Instead of using petrol or diesel, we’ll basically use coal, even if we’re electrically powered, and in the worst case we’ll use even lignite,” he said. “That drives the idea of electric mobility ad absurdum!”
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October 17, 2018 at 09:50PM
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