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There is a lot to do in the car world about Euro 7. Car manufacturers fear huge investments and now it is ACEA that is critical of Euro 7.
The Euro 7 emission standard will be introduced in the European Union around 2025. Car manufacturers are afraid that the arrival of the new emission standard will almost mean the end of the combustion engine. Incidentally, the combustion engine has no future in the EU, but officially the sale of cars that are not completely emission-free will not officially end until 2035. Carlos Tavares – CEO of Stellantis, which is no longer an ACEA member – has been critical of Euro 7 for some time and now the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) is also spewing its bile about Euro 7.
That ACEA is critical of Euro 7 is of course not really a surprise. ACEA is the European interest group of car manufacturers. Let it be the car manufacturers who fear that they will have to invest enormously in order to have their combustion engines meet Euro 7 standards. It is precisely those investments that ACEA is concerned about. They would not outweigh the small effect that the introduction of Euro 7 has on the environment, according to the trade association. “A huge investment in Euro 7 will provide only a marginal benefit to the environment, but it will force car manufacturers to invest enormous amounts of money and development capacity that could be better used in the development of completely zero-emission modes of transport,” said ACEA. According to ACEA, the Euro 7 scenario by 2030 only results in a reduction of NOx emissions from cars of 4 percent.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl