With the march towards decarbonization, Automotive Tech Week Europe asked in September as part of a fireside chat, whether governments and industry are ‘Barking up the Wrong Tree’.
As part of its own drive to decarbonization, the UK has set a 2030 deadline for the ban of all new gasoline and diesel cars. Yet electric vehicles are still quite expensive and out of the price range of most consumers. Many of them won’t be able to afford to replace their vehicles.
This is raising questions about whether it is better to focus on providing greener fuels for all types of vehicles, including for electric and connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), rather than banning the internal combustion engine and hybrid vehicles outright. Andreas Follér, head of sustainability at Scania, who participated in the conference, says the premise of the debate is about focusing on technology with regard to combustion engines today and electric tomorrow. They could also focus on energy, which is what goes into the drivetrain and what out of the tailpipe.
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