Leaders of Europe’s top carmakers gathered in Brussels seeking eased emission standards on new cars. Germany’s auto industry lobby has said rigid emissions regulation “jeopardizes competitiveness.”
- Better dead than uncompetitive, it seems. - ICE itself could stay provided the legislation banned sales of new vehicles using Carbon based fuels. - Diesel engines can be run on Hydrogen with the exhaust being 99.x% water vapour (and some burned lubricants) - Hydrogen is a dead end for cars, and ICE is hugely inefficient anyway. As are private cars in general really. 
 
 
- They are already wildly uncompetitive on account of having flubbed the EV transition, China already beat them solidly on all accounts. Why should they be given anything they ask for? 
- Removed by mod 
- You know what jeopardizes competitiveness? Ivan the Tariffle, and charging so damn much for the electric models. - Do the right thing, grandma. 



