Ferrari Aston Martin McLaren Given More Time to Go Green
An agreement on the 2035 combustion ban was reached in Europe, and the European Union has included a close that made supercar manufacturers happy.
The European Union maintained the 2035 deadline for a combustion ban on all car makers. A major step on the path to a better clean and sustainable environment, reaching this agreement was extremely hard and required endless discussions within the union. However, the result left everyone satisfied, environmentalists got the strict deadline they wanted, and car makers got ample time to reach it. Even the supercar makers are happy about the close that included an allowance for synthetic fuels in this decarbonization plan. Automakers like McLaren and Ferrari were extremely anxious about the combustion ban’s initial draft, as it stipulated a rushed transition toward electric power for everyone without taking into consideration the particularities of niche manufacturers like them.
Ferrari Aston Martin McLaren Given More Time to Go Green
Manufacturers who sell less than 10,000 cars or 22,000 vans on European lands, will have more time to reduce emissions, the exemption is now extended to 2035 while the original draft wanted them to meet harsher criteria by 2029.
Major car-producing countries were the drivers behind this amendment, chief among them Italy as it is home to a substantial number of supercar producers.
The opposition was also represented by the European Small Volume Car Manufacturers Alliance (ESCA), which groups car makers like McLaren, Aston Martin, Pagani, Bugatti, Ineos, Rimac, and Koenigsegg. This special association argued that electric supercars won’t make a big difference in the bigger picture. On the contrary, forcing the producers to put huge batteries on their sports cars will have a negative impact on the environment. Instead, the association insisted on allowing carmakers to develop synthetic fuels instead of using electric power.
Global automotive analyst at investment bank Jefferies, Phillippe Houchois, explained why using electric-powered sports cars is not viable in the long term: "Putting a large battery into a supercar has a negative impact on manufacturing emissions because they get driven so little to offset the extra emissions in producing the battery."
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