Welcome back to the podcast. Today, carmakers are fighting the Euro EV targets. The Ford F-150 Lightning gets discounted and the MGS6. Plus, stay tuned. Later in the show, I'll tell you about the true cost of EV charge cable thefts. We'll start with news of a leaked position paper. This is from the European Carmakers Association, the ACEA. They're proposing changes to the upcoming EU, European Union, CO2 rules and move the campaigners say.

Weakens the electric vehicle targets. This is fascinating because this paper wasn't ready to be published. This is probably their inside thinking. This is the stuff they've been discussing.

Some of it might not be concrete.

Some of it there might be disagreement of. But this is a position paper from the car makers themselves.

The Environmental Group Transport and Environment warns that their proposals,

more than 10 requested amendments to the 2035 Clean Air Rules, including counting a shabby hybrid

towards the zero emission totals. They're not zero emissions. And also changing how plug-in hybrid

emissions get measured could sharply reduce the share of BEV sold by 2035 in the European Union,

which would effectively, they say, halve the ambition to sell zero-emission cars in 2035.

The ACEA responded that, well, I mean, the response from the car industry was,

through a press office, it's the kind of stuff you'd expect them to say

that electrification is a principal route to decarbonization, but that the pace should depend

on the market demand and on what they call enabling conditions. Once again, the car industry is saying

we need adequate charging infrastructure. When it

wasn't there, Tesla built their own, for instance. But the car makers are saying, come on, build it for

us. Effective purchase incentives and fiscal incentives to make Bev's attractive, they say,

and lower overall costs. These are all things that have been, well, pretty much the same call for the last 10

years they've been saying. And there's so much price parity now between combustion and electric

vehicles. Battery prices are dropping every single year. How much more attractive and lower cost

do you want EVs to be before they are handsomely profitable? Well, that is, of course, the point of running a car

company. ACEA says flexibilities are needed to allow time for conditions to materialize without

penalizing manufacturers and that alternative approaches should be examined. Yeah, some of these

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