CEOs of Renault and Fiat-Peugeot : There is a growing anti-car mood. What we call the autophobia sickness. It’s a strategic threat and we must be prepared to push back. The individual car is freedom, it must remain part of society culture
CEOs of Renault and Fiat-Peugeot : There is a growing anti-car mood. What we call the autophobia sickness. It’s a strategic threat and we must be prepared to push back. The individual car is freedom, it must remain part of society culture
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It’s not just freedom but it is good for growth of a coutry.
If I can get to work 90% quicker than public transport, then I can make choices based on work/life far easier.
I can choose an employer further from home that pays more vs one closer that gives me more free time due to lack of travel.
I can buy my goods from business parks outside of city centers, making the goods I buy cheaper.
Cars are good for business, once they’re electric then they will be much better than ICE cars for the environment.
“There is a growing anti-profit mood. What we call the public transportation sickness. It’s a strategic threat to our own interests and we must be prepared to push back. The individual car is freedom, let’s say something nice so that we remain part of society culture.”
Smiles in bicycle 🙂
/r/fuckcars tells you to go kindly fuck yourself with several horse sized dildos.
Just make green clean cars… dumbass…
Déjà-vu sensation: There is a growing anti-tobacco mood, we must be prepared to push back…
Wait the guy who makes his millions selling cars wants people to buy cars, who would’ve thunk
fuck him and fuck his car bullshit…
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Luca De Meo (Renault) and Carlos Tavares (Stellantis) see France as an “autophobic” country
During a joint interview with Le Parisien, the bosses of Renault and Stellantis note with regret and concern the negative image of the car in France. They want to create a “freedom of movement forum”.
In two weeks, the Motor Show will open its doors in Paris, one of the cities in Europe where the presence of cars is less and less appreciated. In a joint interview published by Le Parisien, Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis (ex-PSA) and Luca De Meo, CEO of Renault, regret the negative image of cars and the impact on “freedom of movement”.
“Why do we have so many French people in love with their cars in a fundamentally autophobic country?” asks Carlos Tavares.
“I worked in Germany, at Volkswagen and Audi. Over there, there is a pride in the automotive industry that does not exist in France”, adds Luca De Meo who notes that the car no longer has its place in town.
“Hate” the automobile, for us it’s “game over”
According to the two leaders, cities designed centuries or decades ago are not adapted to the explosion of urban mobility.
“Some people — because driving around today is not easy at all, because in certain cities the population density is unprecedented — have started to take a dislike to cars. I have always said that if people started to hate our product, it was ‘game over'”, regrets the boss of Renault.
“We are in contact with an infrastructure which is one of the oldest in the world. This way [He turns towards the road, facing the Palace of Versailles where this meeting took place, Editor’s note] was built there perhaps 450 years ago, adds Luca De Meo: “Running clean cars on it is like watching a Netflix film on a mobile phone from twenty years ago.”
Indeed, now for the manufacturers, it is a question of proposing electric vehicles to replace the thermal models. Last June, the European Parliament approved Brussels’ proposal to reduce emissions from new cars to zero from 2035. Only electric vehicles will be authorized for sale, unlike thermal and hybrid cars. But for the leaders, these decisions do not take into account the realities.
“It’s a pity, all the same, to have taken the subject upside down, starting with the manufacture of cars, and leaving aside the question of energy, and that of infrastructure”, declares Carlos Tavares.
A forum for “freedom of movement”
The question is also based on the entry ticket to afford an electric vehicle. To afford one, prices range from around 20,000 for a small city car, to nearly 100,000 euros for a road car. Rates that most motorists cannot afford.
“If electric vehicles are expensive, they will be elitist, the middle class will not be able to access them, and we will have a problem of social stability. By the way, if we do not obtain sufficient volumes, we will not have any impact on the planet” notes Carlos Tavares.
“We are still in a phase of technological breakthrough, during which, by definition, new products are expensive”. (…) Today, privileged people who have the means, a garage and a terminal at home can afford an electric vehicle. It’s politically incorrect to say it like that”, adds Luca De Meo, promising to “democratize the electric vehicle”.
Will the electric car for all find its place in urban traffic? It is a doubt raised by Carlos Tavares.
“When we only have clean, safe and affordable cars, will we continue to put pressure on the automobile?”
“We are here to propose solutions, provided that society accepts that individual, family and professional freedom of movement remains a fundamental axis of our ‘lifestyle’. For this subject to be debated, we are going to create a forum for freedom of movement”, announced the boss of Stellantis.
“If you want, I participate”, offers Luca De Meo. “Of course, I invite you!” replied Carlos Tavares.
On Monday, during the press conference presenting the 2023 draft budget, Bruno Le Maire mentioned the creation of an ecological bonus reserved for electric cars produced in Europe. The Minister of the Economy has drawn up two avenues of reflection to direct the bonus: “vehicles produced on European territory or strictly compliant with new environmental standards”.
Lets not forget that up until recent, cigarettes were labeled as “healthy”.
I’m gonna carry a week’s worth of food in 6 backpacks for 5 miles in one go just to spite these fuckers. How dare they promote the product they’re selling?
No
Autophobia lol
That would translate as self fear. Fear of self.
Thats me after 8 beers. Gonna do some stupid shit.
No no no no, that’s not right at all.
There is an anti-polution mood growing. Make cars that polute less and people will be less hostile towards it.
two rich old men who can’t adapt
During an interview with Le Parisien, the CEOs of Car Manufacturers Renault and Fiat-Chrysler-Peugeot (Stellantis) declared they are sad and worried about a growing anti-car mood in France. They said that together they will soon launch a “freedom forum”