Gilles Normand, Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer.
“Today, some countries are removing incentives, and the problem if you move too quickly, it’s a shock in the market, like we’ve seen in Denmark. We can foresee in Europe that incentives for EVs will fade away progressively, and that’s OK.”
Gilles Normand, Renault’s head of EVs warns that stopping subsidies abruptly can effectively kill a market. Still, he believes enough in EVs to know that subsidies won’t simply be necessary anymore at some point.
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“Today, some countries are removing incentives, and the problem if you move too quickly, it’s a shock in the market, like we’ve seen in Denmark. We can foresee in Europe that incentives for EVs will fade away progressively, and that’s OK.”
It almost feels as if Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, analyst at the University of Duisburg-Essen’s CAR, is stating the obvious but given the state of the discussion still, some things cannot be said often enough.
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“Diesel is over and it’s time to switch to new technologies.”
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