The European Commission has announced the latest version of their rules and regulations for new vehicle emissions over the next few years (Euro 7, for short), with the aim of getting all diesel and petrol driven vehicles removed from any further production by the major manufacturers in order to reduce CO2 pollutants and other toxic emissions.
The Euro 7 regulation has been criticised by these same companies primarily because of the unrealistic timescales involved, the additional R&D costs for future EV manufacturing, resources, complicated red tape/compliance and the fear that the price of EVs under the new ruling will rise by anything up to 20% on the forecourt.
It should also be noted that the Euro 7 ruling will affect the United Kingdom despite of Brexit due to the fact we haven’t totally cut ties with the EC.
One observation everyone agrees on is that it will push the cost of buying a brand Euro 7-compliant EV out of the reach of many people, which could just force them off the roads unless they resort to going back to 2nd hand petrol/diesel vehicles – which will also command a high price due to strong demand for this very reason.
And yet on the flip side you get some EC officials and Greenies, who suggest Euro 7 doesn’t go far enough to reduce emissions and are pushing for amendments or even tighter regulations in time for the release of Euro 8 in the not too distant future.
This is probably all to do with Net Zero, but is only focused on European vehicle production and not Asia or Chinese production where pollution levels are far higher and regulations far less stringent.
Yet more half-baked bureaucracy from our EU/WEF masters, and another piece of the Net Zero jigsaw falls into place by getting the plebs off the road. We’ve already had recent nominations covering:-
- banning old petrol/diesel cars in central London
- pedestrianisation of busy town roads
- excessive traffic calming methods (especially in Oxford)
- high petrol/diesel prices (we can now include higher electric prices for EVs)
- congestion charges and higher parking charges
- police more concerned about the welfare of eco-warrior protestors than drivers
It won’t be too long before the Powers that Be get most of us off the road once and for all.
Nominated by: Technocunt
