“Manufacturers may be forced to sell electric cars at a loss. It’s probably cheaper to subsidize these sales than pay the fines” Subsidize Electric Cars Or Pay Fines As falling fuel prices make electric cars even less attractive to buyers, spare a thought for the manufacturers caught between the rock of governments forcing ever tighter […]
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European Auto Plea For CO2 Pity Unlikely To Succeed
“Now oil, gas supplies look secure for up to 100, maybe 200 years” “The industry put its own view rather than just standing there and taking it. They’ve brought it on themselves by not actually standing up earlier. They’ve been frozen in the headlights of propaganda by the green movement” European Auto Plea For CO2 […]
Technology, Changing Attitudes, Could Devastate Auto Industry
“The world’s $20 trillion car fleet achieves only four per cent use, leaving 8.4 trillion hours a year not used. What a waste!!!.” The book business, not to mention newspapers, have been shellacked by new technology, and automobile manufacturers might be the next industry ripe for attack. When the global automotive industry gathers in Paris […]
Governments Batter European Automakers With CO2 Rules
Help To Sort Overcapacity, U.S. Style, Would Help Though. Prospects for the European auto industry are being hampered by too little government action from one side, and too much on the other, according to UBS auto analyst Philippe Houchois. Houchois told the annual Automotive News Europe Congress in Brussels that European governments were not doing […]
Tighter E.U. CO2 Rules Will Cost Industry €12 billion
Germany Wins “Supercredits” Increase, Delay. VW Faces Biggest Challenge. Environmentalists heaped derision on the E.U. agreement to tighten cars’ carbon dioxide emissions, but investors pointed out that despite the delay in reaching the 95 g/km target and the implementation of “supercredits”, the industry will have to spend a total of €12 billion to comply. The […]
E.U. Deal To Cut 2020 CO2 Emissions Crumbles
Environmentalists, Ford Unhappy With The Failure. Germany incurred the wrath of environmental groups and the Ford Motor Co when it managed to delay probably until October, and perhaps kill, an E.U. agreement to cut average fleet CO2 emissions to 95 grammes per kilometer by 2020. The deal seemed to have been agreed by E.U. leaders […]
Daimler Falls Behind In CO2 Race, Says Report
Not So Far That It Can’t Simply Buy The Technology Required, Now Environmentalists Question Larger Gaps Between Official Figures, Reality Daimler came under pressure from a couple of sources saying that it had fallen behind in the race to meet tough new European Union CO2 rules, but a third report pointed out that this was […]
E.U. Truck Problem, Car CO2 Weakness Could Cost Daimler
Audi CO2 Performance Said To Beat Equivalent Mercedes “Truck Engine Changeover Like Changing All Cars At Once” Daimler reported huge profits for 2010, and investors were convinced that 2011 would be even better as pronouncements from the corporate leadership left the impression that everything in the garden was lovely. The only complaint was that Daimler’s […]
E.U. Should Delay, Dilute Swingeing CO2 Rules
Regulations Were Based On Climate Science Now Shown To Be Rotten Europe’s Car Makers Already Produced Fantastically Frugal Cars CO2 Rules Will Raise Costs For Public, Eliminate Profits For Makers In a sane world, European governments would be scrambling to rescind tight regulation and extortionate taxation introduced in the name of saving the planet from […]
Manufacturers Breathing Easy Under New E.U. CO2 Rules
Environmentalists Blast The Deal As Timid, Complacent. It looks like the European Union’s rules on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions won’t be troubling car manufacturers too much. The original target of an average 130 g/km will be phased in from 2012 to 2015, while penalties for non-compliance are likely to be much less onerous than first […]