BMW does not join the chorus of car manufacturers who criticize the planned further tightening of CO2 requirements in 2025. With a view to the combustion engine ban as early as 2035, there is greater agreement.
The car manufacturer BMW sees no need to relax the European emissions standard for CO2 from 2025. BMW has always exceeded the requirements in recent years and is therefore “confident that it will also achieve the stricter fleet targets for 2025. The company therefore sees no need to adjust or postpone these 2025 targets,” it announced on Thursday in Munich.
This sets BMW apart from Volkswagen and the industry association VDA. VW Supervisory Board Chairman Hans Dieter Pötsch said: “Electromobility will prevail, but it will take more time. That is why the CO2 targets for 2025, 2030 and 2035 must be adjusted and brought into line with reality.”
Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing supports the call to bring forward the review of CO2 targets to 2025, because targets “must actually be implementable in practice”.
BMW stressed that the company is committed to the goal of consistent CO2 reduction in the transport sector and has prepared itself. But the EU must, as announced, comprehensively and critically review its CO2 fleet legislation – especially the ban on new petrol and diesel cars planned from 2035.
The EU wants to further reduce the limits for CO2 emissions in 2025 and is threatening high fines.
The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is produced by the burning of coal, oil and gas, among other things. The increasing concentration in the atmosphere causes the greenhouse effect: the earth’s climate heats up.
Source: Stern
