The European Union wants to abolish combustion engines in cars by the year 2035 and replace them with electric machines. However, vehicle manufacturers and assemblers have manifested themselves after this announcement claiming that the fulfillment of this goal is impossible by the scheduled date.
Among the companies that have spoken out is Volkswagen, which has been investing heavily in electrification in recent years, but still faces many challenges. Thus, the company's CEO, Herbert Diess, claims that it is not possible to abandon the combustion engine by 2035. Keep reading this article and learn more about it!
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Although the car manufacturer is investing in electric and hybrid vehicles, it is not possible to retire combustion cars so quickly. This is because the main part of an electric car is its batteries, which are large, heavy and costly.
In addition, the European Union's proposal is that 50% of Volkswagen's sales will be electric vehicles only by 2030. But the problem is that, for this to happen, it is necessary to have battery factories in operation by 2028 at the latest.
So the company needs to find a good location, build the factories, acquire all the machinery for the factories, and train the employees. So these are huge and impossible challenges in such a short time. There is still the obstacle of the energy source for the operation of the vehicles, since having electric cars only makes sense when the energy comes from a renewable source.
So, the matrix originates from solar, wind, nuclear energy and already exists in some countries, such as Austria, France and Norway. However, there are also polluting sources, whose energy comes from coal plants, as in Poland. In the latter case, an electric car becomes even more polluting than a car with a combustion engine. Therefore, what is being done at the moment are investments in hybrid vehicles and flex-fuel engines.
