The management of the Munich brand decided not to sign a multilateral agreement on COP26, which included the sale of electric cars only from 2040. For good reason.
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Countless car brands have been spewing years for us lately, after which they will offer exclusively electric cars without burning fossil fuels. However, BMW thinks that such a strategy is not only the decision of the carmaker alone, but also the intensive involvement of other parties.
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In an interview with Dezeen, BMW Head of Sustainability Strategy Thomas Becker admitted that the company had not set a year from which to end internal combustion engines. First of all, it is necessary that individual countries, especially the poorer ones, also meet the binding targets.
“Everything works in the Netherlands and Norway, these markets will be fully electric and we will only sell electric cars here. But today we can’t say for sure that other countries will do the same work in the same amount of time. “ said Becker, who used charging infrastructure in Italy as an example.
No wonder. While in Norway and the Netherlands there are seven to nine public charging stations per 1,000 cars, in Italy it is only 0.4 charging stations. According to Becker, this is mainly due to insufficient government activities and weak political leadership.
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However, this does not mean that BMW does not boast of a timid plan for the coming years. Thus, for example, he believes that in 2030, half of the cars sold will be electric. At the same time, the company wants to electrify the Rolls-Royce and Mini brands. Becker concludes that BMW’s move to pure electromobility without infrastructure will force customers to buy older used internal combustion engines, which pollute the environment even more than modern cars.
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