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François d'Orcival: "Like the Concorde, the car has lost the political battle"

2022-01-28T05:40:25.366Z


CHRONICLE - The standards enacted by Brussels condemn vehicles other than electric. However, these cost 50% more to manufacture than thermal engine cars.


The French automobile market will have suffered, over the past two years, a 25% decline in sales compared to 2019: it amounted to 2.2 million passenger car registrations;

they fell to 1.65 million in 2020 and 2021. A loss of more than 1 million cars in two years on the domestic market alone!

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Automotive: the electrification of the market weighs on sales in Europe

Our industry suffered sick leave from the pandemic in 2020, breakdowns in the delivery of raw materials in 2021. It is everywhere in decline.

Never mind: the Commission in Brussels, the European Parliament and European governments, starting with ours, are forcing it to go faster.

Towards what?

The electric.

Because it's futuristic, ecological and political, as Laurent Wauquiez says in his weekly update.

"

Renault will be a 100% electric brand in eight years

,"

said Luca De Meo, general manager of the automotive group, on January 13.

A week later, Carlos Tavares, his counterpart at the head of Stellantis (the alliance…

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Source: lefigaro

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