Has anyone seen the content of the speech by Jean-Martin Folz, CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroen, at the DoT's recent conference on "The Environmentally Friendly Vehicles"?
Now bear in mind that new cars are not selling that well with an over capacity certainly in Europe.
So what does this CEO of a large car making firm come up with as his contribution to the environment?
He suggests that cars over 15 years old should be taken off the road- thereby:-
"allowing natural market forces to determine what happens thereafter"
This goes against accepted thinking that whilst old technology can be more polluting (unless you convert an old vehicle to run on CNG or LPG for example - but he neatly declined to mention this point!) the MOST polluting thing about a car is the energy and resources it takes to make it
But of course it would boost the current poor sales of new cars!
Now that'll fix global warming.
Now bear in mind that new cars are not selling that well with an over capacity certainly in Europe.
So what does this CEO of a large car making firm come up with as his contribution to the environment?
He suggests that cars over 15 years old should be taken off the road- thereby:-
"allowing natural market forces to determine what happens thereafter"
This goes against accepted thinking that whilst old technology can be more polluting (unless you convert an old vehicle to run on CNG or LPG for example - but he neatly declined to mention this point!) the MOST polluting thing about a car is the energy and resources it takes to make it
But of course it would boost the current poor sales of new cars!
Now that'll fix global warming.