The vice -president of the Séjourné Commission talks about electric cars. Urso: “We need technological neutrality”
Two details that reveal, at least apparently, a push in a very precise direction of the European executive regarding e-cars. The vice -president of the European Commission Stéphane Séjourné anticipates them during the public session of the European Council on Competitiveness in Brussels: “As announced by President Von der Leyen during his speech on the State of the Union (last September 12, editor’s note), we are preparing an initiative on small and accessible electric vehicles, so that the manufacturers of European Union car can introduce models on the market that could cost between 15,000 and 20,000 euros “. The words to be underlined in this declaration are two:” electric “and” 20,000 “and concern the” Small Affordable Cars “, more commonly called e-car. The initiative will” “real range that is not taken into consideration today in the European market and which could in any case stimulate production” adds Séjourré.
What car will be?
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It is a class of vehicles to be designed so much so that in the past days, in the Belgian capital, it has also been the subject of discussion as a suffix to use for this category, the m of the cars or the L who also concerns the quadricycles. Among the hypotheses made, the price range had to be around 15 thousand euros. Now the 20 thousand adjustment makes more plausible, and economically sustainable for producers, the hypothesis that e-cars are electric. In fact, already now on the market few battery models are below 20 thousand euros. On the size of these vehicles, on the other hand, a generic indication that are small is not known. However, from many sides, manufacturers and politicians, requests have arrived that the category of vehicles is not only electric, also thinking of the times of development and production, as well as costs.
“Also other fuels”
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In this sense, the request made by the Minister for Companies and the Made in Italy Adolfo Urso on the sidelines of the European Council is going: “It is a necessary measure that we have urged so that even those who cannot afford it can buy an ecologically sustainable car, a small utility car, which must necessarily be fed also by other fuels, not only by electricity, to be accessible to everyone. It is necessary that this new category of small users is inserted in a larger context. of profound revision of the rules of the Green Deal based on the principles of freedom, therefore of technological neutrality “.
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