So with the possibility of no new ICE Emission requirements until 2035 in the EU, how do you think this will affect Emira production longevity?
EU Car Emission Limits Face Pushback - Reuters
EU Car Emission Limits Face Pushback - Reuters
If this happens, that would definitely increase the likelihood of a higher performance street version, as well as increasing the longevity of Emira production. I was thinking if Lotus has enough orders for FE's to keep them going right up until they stop making ICE cars (which I believe was going to be 2028?) there wouldn't be any point in making a final edition, or even base cars at that point. If they can keep going until 2035, that would change things considerably.So with the possibility of no new ICE Emission requirements until 2035 in the EU, how do you think this will affect Emira production longevity?
EU Car Emission Limits Face Pushback - Reuters
It is completely irresponsible to force the entire planet to remove ICE vehicles. Billions of vehicles on the roads, and we should not be binning them all to replace them with EV's just to line the pockets of these officials, who must have a vested interest in all this, as it's insane.
Use what we have! Synthetics should be the single most important R&D task on the books today!
We will see how many ICE cars are removed from the roads when they; keep moving the entry conditions and prices for green zones, add loads more tax to petrol, tariff new parts to discourage repair, etc etc. People will start abandoning ICE cars as it’s too much hassle and too expensive to own. Like most things in the UK, they will just beat the public into submission via wallet and convenience.Well for a start they are not doing that. You can still use your ICE as long as you like, nobody is "binning" billions of cars. Gov are doing what gov always do and that is incentivise change and then legislate for change. When it involves an evolving technology that complicates things but you have to start somewhere. Infrastructure takes time to build for BEV whilst Hybrid works just fine now.
Synthetics are only a partial answer as they still have emissions at the point of use. The solution is a combination of BEV/Hydrogen/Synthetics.
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