GENEVA (Reuters) – The Association of European Automobile Manufacturers (Acea) does not intend to challenge the EU’s decision to ban internal combustion engines in 2035 regardless of the outcome of the next European Parliament elections, it said on Monday the president of Acea, Luca de Meo.
“Our responsibility, as business leaders, once the thing has been decided, is not to argue against the regulation,” he said during a press conference of the association organized at the Geneva motor show.
“We are citizens, we must do everything to put our organizations in the conditions to comply. We are not contesting 2035. Now, we must get down to it.”
“It is potentially feasible, but the right conditions must be put in place,” he added.
Politicians and professionals in the sector are currently wondering about a revision or withdrawal of the ban on thermal engines, decided as part of the European objectives of decarbonization of the continent, in the event of a shift to the right of the European Parliament after the election of June.
(Report by Gilles Guillaume, edited by Zhifan Liu)
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