Hello there. Welcome to another M-Nex podcast. It's great to see you again. I'm James

Panicki, senior editor on Emlex's Asia Desk. And today I'm coming to you from the LexisNexis offices in Melbourne, Australia.

Now, it's safe to say that carmakers around the world are on board with the project of moving

towards electric vehicles. Most industry players are planning the road ahead and are indeed

scrambling to meet the challenges. However, in the European Union, the

auto industry is facing a raft of new regulation to nudge it or even arguably shove it towards

achieving ambitious goals on vehicle emissions. Now, this would be all good and well, the European

auto industry argues, if carmakers around the world

were facing similar regulatory obstacles and had access to the same level of government support.

But that's obviously not the case. So the automakers are calling for a more flexible and

pragmatic approach from the regulators, although so far to no avail. The M-Mex team in Brussels

and London has been working on this story for some time now, and our senior reporter covering

future mobility, Jakub Kruper, joins us now from the UK. And just a very quick linguistic note

for our US listeners. When we refer to petrol in this context, we are in fact talking about

gasoline. Now, Jakub, there's a growing sense of frustration and disquiet among European carmakers.

They're becoming increasingly vocal about policies that will affect them, walk us through their

concerns. I think it all fits a broader debate about the state and the future of the

particularly European automotive industry. They say it's once in a century revolution that affects

the industry with transition towards electric vehicles. They say, you know, the last time we changed

something so radically was when we switched from a horse to a car. So they say, obviously, that

completely upends the whole system, the whole chains, the whole, everything that they've worked

on for decades. And there are multiple regulatory interventions that make it even more urgent

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