Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares stated tighter emissions limits for pollution akin to nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide within the proposed Euro 7 requirements are “ineffective” and counterproductive at a time when the auto trade is struggling to provide inexpensive electrical automobiles.

The brand new requirements are anticipated to be put in place in July 2025, a time-frame that automakers say doesn’t give them sufficient lead time to develop and homologate compliant drivetrains. 

“It’s not useful, it’s pricey, it doesn’t carry clients advantages, it doesn’t carry environmental profit,” Tavares stated at a media spherical desk on Wednesday forward of Stellantis’ 2022 earnings name. “The ICE [internal combustion engine] emission half is one thing which simply is not sensible.”

Tavares has beforehand criticized the Euro 7 requirements as a waste of money and time, as they’d require automakers to put money into catalytic converters and particulate filters, in addition to electronics controls to chop emissions in fossil-fuel fashions that the European Union intends to ban as of 2035 anyway.

He stated Stellantis would restrict the variety of Euro 7 functions to the minimal, whereas aiming to ramp up electrification as quick as doable. 

Tavares, nonetheless, praised Euro 7 proposals concerning particulates from brake pads and tires. 

Regulators say limiting pollution akin to nitrogen oxides might save 1000’s of lives sooner or later; in 2035, the EU says, Euro 7 rules will lower passenger automotive and van NOx emissions by 35 p.c, and by 56 p.c for buses and vans. Brake particulates shall be lower by 27 p.c.

Reuters contributed to this report