Munich – The boss of the German luxury carmaker BMW expects his company will be able to meet the climate targets for new vehicles in the coming year.
“We have known the targets for 2025 since 2019,” Oliver Zipse told the industry newspaper Automobilwoche in an interview published on Monday.
“We have aligned our model policy accordingly and further increased the efficiency of the transmission systems. We see no reason to postpone the CO2 targets for 2025.”
Other European carmakers have previously called for the tightening of CO2 limits to be suspended.
From next year, the average emissions of new cars sold in the EU must be reduced from 115.1 grams to 93.6 grams per kilometre – a reduction of 19%. Manufacturers will have to pay a fine for emitting too much CO2.
Zipse said that the emission of the greenhouse gas CO2 would not only be cut with the help of electric cars, because reductions are are also still being made in traditional combustion engine. “In our company, all facets are designed for efficiency: brakes, transmission systems, aerodynamics.”
In general, Zipse does not see electric mobility under pressure globally. E-mobility, he said, will “remain our strongest growth driver for the next few years.”
