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Elkann To EU: Rethink 2035 Engine Ban Before It’s Too Late

Elkann To EU: Rethink 2035 Engine Ban Before It’s Too Late​

A High-Stakes Warning From Stellantis’ Chairman​

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Stellantis Chairman John Elkann is raising a red flag over Europe’s aggressive green-car regulations, warning that the European Union (EU) is steering directly toward an industrial downturn unless it revises its 2035 ban on new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. In a wide-ranging interview with POLITICO, Elkann made it clear that Brussels’ current course could weaken Europe’s auto sector at the very moment global competition is ramping up.

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Elkann To EU: Rethink 2035 Engine Ban Before It’s Too Late

John Elkann warns the EU about the potential pitfalls of the 2035 engine ban. Discover why revising this regulation is crucial.
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The truth is... Many customers just don't want to plug their cars.
 
He's correct on numerous fronts. It was a political message as much as it is a business strategy. I doubt the bureaucrats in Brussels will listen, though.
I never understood the reasoning why the only path forward for autos was BEV. All other technologies were shunned. Hydrogen and other ICE alternatives show a huge potential. And there may be other emerging technologies that could be better yet. I've even seen carbon capture for ICE engines. The best and most affordable path forward is to allow for multiple energy and drivetrain options for the consumer. And without subsidies.
 
EJ is absolutely needed. The regulatory realities exist. USA needs a REV version.
 
Hubris or egg on their faces or just plain groups think ignorance, it time for the powers that be in the EU to face reality. The people have made it clear, even in weak knee Europe, the free market has spoken. “PULL THE PLUG” on the discredited, widely rejected green agenda hoax. It is soundly dead, dead, dead. It’s time! Yes, it’s time even in the bastion of green minion behaviors.
Environmental advocates have some valid arguments, they are generally sincere, what they lack is objectivity, common sense and respect for the people they seek to hood wink or intimidate in desperation. Silly Willie’s, are they not ?
Show some back bone, honesty, apologies to your colleagues for your silly ways. Pull the damn plug !
 
The EV mandates from Brussels/Beltway/Davos has put most of the legacy auto manufacturers in a death spiral while paving the way for a CCP domination of the industry. EVs are a product consumers didn’t ask for, don’t want, and aren’t buying. It’s nothing but a money grab by government bureaucrats and environmental zealots to have control over the populace.

Luckily change has happened within the Beltway portion, if Brussels doesn’t follow suit they’re in for a massive change. VW is on the brink in part for their penance for dieselgate. There is no way the German government will allow VW to fail. MB and BMW aren’t far behind them. Without following the Beltway Mass layoffs in Germanys automotive sector will push the Germans to leave the EU. Italy will follow which will put pressure on the French to leave as well. Those 3 countries account for almost 1/2 the EU’s GDP.

Brussels has a decision to make, continue to drink the poison tea being served up by Beijing through Davos or face a complete irrelevance from a populous backlash across Europe and a breakup of the EU.
 
Foncool said:
The EV mandates from Brussels/Beltway/Davos has put most of the legacy auto manufacturers in a death spiral while paving the way for a CCP domination of the industry. EVs are a product consumers didn’t ask for, don’t want, and aren’t buying. It’s nothing but a money grab by government bureaucrats and environmental zealots to have control over the populace.

Luckily change has happened within the Beltway portion, if Brussels doesn’t follow suit they’re in for a massive change. VW is on the brink in part for their penance for dieselgate. There is no way the German government will allow VW to fail. MB and BMW aren’t far behind them. Without following the Beltway Mass layoffs in Germanys automotive sector will push the Germans to leave the EU. Italy will follow which will put pressure on the French to leave as well. Those 3 countries account for almost 1/2 the EU’s GDP.

Brussels has a decision to make, continue to drink the poison tea being served up by Beijing through Davos or face a complete irrelevance from a populous backlash across Europe and a breakup of the EU.
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Sincerely, I don’t want to agree with your statement, it’s too dreadful, but I must admit I share almost all your observations. Let’s hope patriotic, intelligent and common sense leaders will prevail. Things like radicalized plots to destroy a Presidential candidate twice and subsequently a sitting President twice, here in the U.S. that would have been labeled crazy conspiracy theories are now real fact. Not only are the executors of this treasonous behavior being exposed and confirmed, but those behind them financially, domestic and foreign, as you suggest, shall be exposed as complicit in this global attack on Capitalism and Democracy. The chaos sown in the auto industry by the hoax climate crisis movement can not be dismissed as separate from this criminal enterprise. So many have been so played. Zealots, idiots.
Sadly, the tea leaves of truth and fact are turning dread into reality. Hopefully salvation by right leaning leadership in the West has not come too late. Scary stuff.
 
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