Stellantis Ready for EU’s 2025 Emissions Standards, Tavares Says

Stellantis Ready for EU’s 2025 Emissions Standards, Tavares Says​

Tavares Calls For No Delays Amidst Industry Concerns...​

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has made it clear that his company is not calling for any delays or relaxation of the European Union’s 2025 CO2 emissions standards. Unlike other European automakers, Tavares asserts that Stellantis is fully prepared to meet the stricter regulations due to years of proactive planning.

Stellantis Ready for EU's 2025 Emissions Standards, Tavares Says

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has made it clear that his company is not calling for any delays or relaxation of the European Union’s 2025 CO2 emissions standards. Unlike other European automakers, Tavares asserts that Stellantis is fully prepared to meet the stricter regulations due to years of...

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[bill burke]

I’ve been critical of Tavares, frankly in an emotional way due to fundamental changes to Mopar brands and North American operations.
But you have to give the guy credit for sticking to his plan. As a retired executive I had to learn one of the golden rules of successful leadership, you have to steer the course through rough seas and violent storms. I also learned that steering involves course corrections, avoiding the rocks of disaster and most of all, knowing your limitations. Tavares is sticking to his plan, obviously believes in his credentials of intellect and skill as captain of the ship, but now his skills will be tested by the storms of market realities and the rocks of a failed strategy. I can not help recalling the tragedy of the Titanic in this comment, but being captain carries a great burden that from the poop deck looks easy. Reluctantly, I have to give the guy credit, he believes he has the credentials and the will to avoid the icebergs. Let’s hope he does and steers us to safe harbors.

 

[patfromigh]

Stellantis has already struck the iceberg. Their sales have crashed. Except instead of the band playing an appropriate Christian hymn, they are playing "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", by R.E.M.
The passengers and crew are being served Kool-Aid as the ship sinks.

If someone wants an example of a courageous leader, they should study Akio Toyoda. To quote an article from the NYT:

In recent years, Mr. Toyoda became known for his comments warning politicians and industry officials not to move too quickly toward electric vehicles, before consumers were ready to leave behind their gasoline-powered cars.

While other automakers in the United States, Europe and China started a sharp shift to electric vehicles, Toyota continued to invest in the hybrid cars it pioneered in the late 1990s. That frequently made Mr. Toyoda the target of criticism by environmental groups.

In January 2023, Toyota announced that a longtime Toyota engineer, Koji Sato, would take over as chief executive. Mr. Toyoda said Mr. Sato, 53 at the time, had the skills necessary to guide Toyota into a new age of electric and software-driven cars.

Shortly after Mr. Sato took over, global car market dynamics shifted. Electric vehicle sales cooled, and demand for hybrid cars skyrocketed, generating a windfall for Toyota. Toyota posted more than 5 trillion yen ($32 billion) in operating profit for the fiscal year that ended in March, the largest ever recorded for a Japanese company.

Internally, people at Toyota said the recent earnings — and the company’s expected strong performance over the next three to four years — should be credited to Mr. Toyoda for having mapped out the electric vehicle transition.

“Akio Toyoda has been proven right,” said Jeffrey Liker, who heads the Ann Arbor, Mich., consulting firm Liker Lean Advisors and has written extensively about Toyota and its management.

Despite having stepped down as chief executive, Mr. Toyoda “may have more influence than he wants, even, by virtue of the fact that when he offers an opinion people now take it as the word of God,” Mr. Liker said.

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The WEF and their cronies have made things difficult for Toyota and their leadership through activist investors. John Elkann is among the globalist elite cabal of the WEF. This won't end well for the legacy Chrysler brands. How are things going for Volkswagen? Go woke, go broke.

 

[bill burke]

Stellantis has already struck the iceberg. Their sales have crashed. Except instead of the band playing an appropriate Christian hymn, they are playing "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", by R.E.M.
The passengers and crew are being served Kool-Aid as the ship sinks.

If someone wants an example of a courageous leader, they should study Akio Toyoda. To quote an article from the NYT:



The WEF and their cronies have made things difficult for Toyota and their leadership through activist investors. John Elkann is among the globalist elite cabal of the WEF. This won't end well for the legacy Chrysler brands. How are things going for Volkswagen? Go woke, go broke.

I believe all of us have to separate the technical issues of electrification and the power grab of elitist culture, including business and political. This culture is what is driving an agenda that opposes market forces, free choice and the freedoms associated with a capitalistic democracy. Let’s turn up our intellect and reasoning powers and address both issues as different but in the process, closely associate the coexistence of each, especially in criticism of the threats they present. Ending well for our legacy Chrysler brands indeed looks problematic.