BMW warns of a hasty and ill-considered ban on combustion engines
BMW CEO Oliver Zepze has warned against imposing a hasty and ill-considered ban on combustion engines.
During the closed meeting of the parliamentary group of the Bavarian Christian Social Party in the Federal Parliament in Berlin, Zepze said yesterday, Wednesday, that electric mobility is the strongest growing market segment today, "but the combustion engine is the largest market segment ever, by a large difference in Germany, as well as in Europe and worldwide, And before you close something like this in eight or ten years, you should know what you're going to do then."
Tsepze added that if you try to ban this technology in Germany and Europe at a time when the global market is not far behind in switching to electric mobility, then this technology will be lost in the global market “for this reason we also warn against doing it prematurely and warn not to give a chance to evolve with the market.
Tsipze argued that it would be harmful to simply and unnecessarily abandon a technology in which one has a place in the world market "and just then others will enter this market segment, and I think that in this way we will not be helped by neither the climate nor anyone else."
For his part, the head of the Bavarian Christian Party's parliamentary group, Alexander Drobent, warned against a unilateral focus on electric mobility: "The combustion engine has helped secure Germany's prosperity for decades, created jobs and added value, and therefore should not be abandoned. unilaterally for ideological reasons.
Tsipze demanded to proceed with the development of the combustion engine in the direction of carbon neutrality, noting that this is possible with industrial fuels.