The E-Mobily Europe and ChargeUP associations have sent a letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, expressing their opposition to the car manufacturers’ initiative to relax CO2 emission targets and related fines regulated by the Corporate Average Fuel Emissions (CAFE) standard.
Additionally, ChargeUp representatives, including Tesla, Siemens, and Total Energies, met with Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas as part of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the Automotive Industry in Europe.
During that meeting, the association emphasised the need to maintain Europe’s zero-emission targets to avoid undermining investor confidence in the sector and to boost demand for electric vehicles as the future of mobility in Europe.
The current CAFE regulation stipulates that carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced to 93.6 grams per kilometre by 2025 for cars sold across the 27 EU member states.
European car manufacturers, struggling to compete on price with Chinese automakers and facing potential impacts from US tariffs, are urging the Commission to ease emission quotas to avoid multi-billion-euro fines, which the sector estimates could reach up to 15 billion euros.
From this year, the European Union will fine manufacturers up to 95 euros per excess gram, in accordance with the law.
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