Paris Motor Show: driving into a clean future
- 8 years ago
Falling battery costs and the fall out from Volkswagen’s diesel pollution test rigging scandal are sparking a revolution on the roads.
At the Paris Motor Show electric car prototypes and plans dominate with carmakers and investors pushing on with plug-in vehicles.
By 2025, we’ll have more than 10 fully electric vehicles on the market. #MondialAuto pic.twitter.com/v15SiehBLN— Daimler AG (@Daimler) September 29, 2016
At the show, Daimler’s boss said that by 2025 as many as a quarter of its new Mercedes and Smarts will be electric”:http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-autoshow-paris-mercedes-digital-idUKKCN11Z1ON?mod=related&channelName=technologyNews.
Toyota revealed it has started to phase out diesel engines and Renault expects them to disappear from most of its European cars because of the cost of meeting tighter emissions standards.
Renault-Nissan’s chief executive Carlos Ghosn said diesel engines will inevitably become more expensive, which rules them out for small cars: “You are going to have to put more technology, you are going to have to put more devices, which means that the cost of the car is going to go higher.”
He said the consequence of that, “is to make diesel less competitive [compared with] other technologies. That’s why we start to see the decrease of the diesel”.
Alex Goy, a senior editor at Carfection.com and Theroadshow.com, explained why electric cars are becoming more popular with drivers: “They’re realising that they’re cheaper to run, sometimes they’re cheaper to buy, as they can be with government grants, and they can be a viable source of transport. And with focus on the environment and the economy, it’s becoming more and more important to brands to actually bring something out that sits in that market.”
The VW I.D. is the first Volkswagen in a completely new fleet of highly innovative electric vehicles. It is… https://t.co/Qhj1RsyX0F— Sutliff Volkswagen (@sutliffVW) September 28, 2016
For Volkswagen it is a particularly important market as it tries to rebuild its reputation after its exposure last year as a US emissions test cheat, having used special software to make it seem diesel engines were not polluting so much.
Europe’s biggest automobile manufacturer now has plans to roll out 30 electric vehicles in the next few years hoping to achieve annual sales of two to three million electric cars by 2025.
Over one year on from the scandal, Euronews Business reporter Anne Glemarec discussed its consequences with the German carmaker’s Head of Sales and Marketing Jürgen Stackmann, who was at the Paris Motor Show.
Anne Glemarec, Euronews: “Volkswagen’s customers whose cars were fitted with the cheating software in the US, will be offered up to $10,000 (8,900 euros). But VW is refusing to give the same compensation here in Europe. Why?”
Jürgen Stackmann: “We are actually dealing with all of our individual customers in an equal way around the world, trying to give them a technical solution for the u
At the Paris Motor Show electric car prototypes and plans dominate with carmakers and investors pushing on with plug-in vehicles.
By 2025, we’ll have more than 10 fully electric vehicles on the market. #MondialAuto pic.twitter.com/v15SiehBLN— Daimler AG (@Daimler) September 29, 2016
At the show, Daimler’s boss said that by 2025 as many as a quarter of its new Mercedes and Smarts will be electric”:http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-autoshow-paris-mercedes-digital-idUKKCN11Z1ON?mod=related&channelName=technologyNews.
Toyota revealed it has started to phase out diesel engines and Renault expects them to disappear from most of its European cars because of the cost of meeting tighter emissions standards.
Renault-Nissan’s chief executive Carlos Ghosn said diesel engines will inevitably become more expensive, which rules them out for small cars: “You are going to have to put more technology, you are going to have to put more devices, which means that the cost of the car is going to go higher.”
He said the consequence of that, “is to make diesel less competitive [compared with] other technologies. That’s why we start to see the decrease of the diesel”.
Alex Goy, a senior editor at Carfection.com and Theroadshow.com, explained why electric cars are becoming more popular with drivers: “They’re realising that they’re cheaper to run, sometimes they’re cheaper to buy, as they can be with government grants, and they can be a viable source of transport. And with focus on the environment and the economy, it’s becoming more and more important to brands to actually bring something out that sits in that market.”
The VW I.D. is the first Volkswagen in a completely new fleet of highly innovative electric vehicles. It is… https://t.co/Qhj1RsyX0F— Sutliff Volkswagen (@sutliffVW) September 28, 2016
For Volkswagen it is a particularly important market as it tries to rebuild its reputation after its exposure last year as a US emissions test cheat, having used special software to make it seem diesel engines were not polluting so much.
Europe’s biggest automobile manufacturer now has plans to roll out 30 electric vehicles in the next few years hoping to achieve annual sales of two to three million electric cars by 2025.
Over one year on from the scandal, Euronews Business reporter Anne Glemarec discussed its consequences with the German carmaker’s Head of Sales and Marketing Jürgen Stackmann, who was at the Paris Motor Show.
Anne Glemarec, Euronews: “Volkswagen’s customers whose cars were fitted with the cheating software in the US, will be offered up to $10,000 (8,900 euros). But VW is refusing to give the same compensation here in Europe. Why?”
Jürgen Stackmann: “We are actually dealing with all of our individual customers in an equal way around the world, trying to give them a technical solution for the u