An end to planned economy - and the way is clear for climate protection!

So much for a market economy: It's a downright planned economy that currently prevents greater and faster success of electromobility. Keyword: artificial scarcity. The EU regulation was so accommodating to the OEMs that the CO2 values achieved this year are taken as the basis for the reduction steps until 2025. So, steady on and by no means overperform in terms of consumption. The numerous software problems when introducing the new electric platforms almost seem convenient, which is of course a malicious insinuation.

It should be a perfect landing on the 2020 fleet limit values, but not a gram less! The best deliveries will be next year. If that's not a planned economy.

Because if market economy instruments, above all an honest CO2 price, were consistently applied, fossil drives would have long been pushed out of the market and into the "gray prehistory". Then there would be no need for an "innovation premium," just honesty. It is feared that after the massive incentivization expires, demand will collapse again. 

Déjà vu: Discrepancy between factory and real consumption

Want more planned economy tricks? How about the discrepancy between factory consumption, which is relevant for fleet limit values, and real consumption, which should also have decreased with the introduction of the somewhat more realistic WLTP cycle. But it hasn't disappeared.

According to an analysis by the environmental umbrella organization Transport & Environment, the average real CO2 emissions are still at 155 g/km, not at the official values, which supposedly fell from 122 to 111 g/km from 2019 to 2020.

It may be that the many registered plug-in hybrids, which have a particularly large difference between "target" and "actual", also contributed to this miraculous "CO melt". This depends solely on the high proportion of electrically driven distances, which, according to several studies, is not observed in practice.

The share of SUVs rises to 39 percent - small cars are dying out

So, BMW, PSA, Volvo, or FCA formally fulfilled their "homework" in the first half of 2020, all manufacturers with generously growing PHEV shares, especially in the SUV segment. The "city SUVs" now account for a 39 percent market share in Europe, as of the first half of 2020. Small cars, on the other hand, are dying out: It was recently rumored that PSA wants to give up the A-segment with its formidable and fuel-efficient trio C1/108/Toyota Aygo even without a thirsty dual drive. Renault, Nissan, Ford, and Toyota (!) have a small gap of two grams to close. This is particularly surprising for the Japanese, as the discrepancy between factory promises and street reality is traditionally very low with their closed hybrid models. So, the honest one somehow ends up being the fool, so to speak.

But you can't trick the climate. And it continues to change at a pace that is alarming even to climate scientists, regardless of the accounting tricks of politics and industry.

This also applies to the carbon footprint of electric cars in general: We should not fall into the misconception that everything will be fine with "electric". When you look at the arms race in battery capacities and motor performance, you think that "electric hedonism" is merely replacing "fossil hedonism". Or what is a Tesla Model S Plaid with 1,100 HP supposed to do, which supposedly wiped three seconds off the Lucid Air on the US racetrack and accelerates to 100 km/h in an absurd 2.1 seconds?

Inanity, at least on an American highway with a strict speed limit of 120 km/h max or a German autobahn, which will hopefully soon be limited to 130 km/h - in any case, it is already chronically congested today. And the CO2 and raw material footprint that a 100 kW battery brings with it is not even considered. Sorry, but this can never be sustainable mobility.

In the "great transformation," we should nicely consider motor disarmament. Otherwise, climate protection will not be served.

And it should actually be called "human protection", because the planetary system doesn't really care how Homo sapiens live on it. But it can't be indifferent to us. So finally put an end to this nonsense. And get serious about climate protection.