Stellantis managing director can’t seem to get on the same page as EVs are concerned. Head of car company Coporation, group, CEO Carlos Tavares, asserting that the auto industry is in a reckless hurry into the EV . transition. But Uwe Hochgeschurtzformer CEO of Opel and Vauxhall and the current COO of Stellantis Europe, said the company will completely electricity because that’s what people want, like Electrek report.
In an interview with a German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Hochgeschurtz said, “Everybody has decided: we’re going to be all-electric.” The boss of Stellantis EU went on to say that the German government must ensure its people can make the transition to electric vehicles comfortably by providing subsidies, according to Frankfurter (link in German):
“If our states decide that, they must also provide the means for our middle class to be able to pay for such cars,” Hochschurtz demanded. After all, local prosperity rests on “the fact that everyone in society has the right to personal mobility.”
Hochgeschurtz mentioned the need to cut taxes to offset the cost of electric vehicles, which are often more expensive than their fossil fuel counterparts.. COO says tax rates for electric vehicles in Germany must be lower than those provided by ICE vehiclebecause low-emission cars are helping the country meet its climate goals, says:
Electric cars help us keep the environment clean, and non-electric cars make our environment dirtier. I don’t think you can use the same tax rate there.
As a bonus, subsidize and lower tax rates will help more people buy electric cars over the next few years. But while Tavares and Hochgeschurtz agree on the need for subsidies – since electric vehicle prices fluctuate based on raw materials – the two seem to have different ideas about the motivation behind the EV transition. Tavares claims that governments are imposing change on automakers, while Hochgeschurtz says it is customers who are behind the transformation.
The studies of International Energy Agency and others point out that negative attitudes towards electric vehicles are decreasing. Electrek cites another study, which states that more than half of new car buyers prefer one EV:
More importantly, people prefer electric cars. The latest EY Mobile Consumption Index study in 2022 shows that 52% of car buyers prefer an electric vehicle for their next purchase, and preference for all-electricity has more than tripled since 2020.
These findings better follow Hochgeschurtz’s claims of electric vehicles arriving earlier at the request of buyers, not governments. But not all of these changes will apply to all regions at once, nor to all automakers within a large company like Stellantis. Parent company emerges more than 16 smaller car manufacturers, including Avoid, Jeep carChrysler, Ram, Fiat and Alfa Romeo.
It was mainly in the United States, but in Europe, where Hochgeschurtz said Electric cars are what everyone wantsBrand Stellantis including Opel, Peugeot, DS, Citroën and Lancia. Maybe if Peugeot e-208 already globally, Tavares can accept that people really want electric cars as long as they are the right thing.
