In recent times there has been talk about things like the new technology or regulation called GSR2 (General Safety Regulation 2) that makes cars much more annoying to use and that will also make them more expensive.
We are seeing a whole series of measures and movements on the part of the European Union that are clearly aimed at removing cars from the streets and equally and more importantly it seems that the combustion car wants to be replaced by a technology that has not yet been fully developed. take root at a sufficient speed so that this transition can be carried out at the speed at which it was proposed.
And that is generating important powerful inconsistencies and also some problems and two pieces of news have just appeared that together are quite disturbing because both are true, one has weeks, months at most left to come into force and another is much more in a nebula but Let's say that it is already part of a draft that the European Union wants to impose and this is really interesting and striking because it would precisely close the circle of things that have been rumored to you.
In Germany, for example, the Volkswagen group and the Volkswagen brand specifically have drastically lowered the price of their electric cars, once the aid has ended in that country while the prices of thermal cars do not stop rising and there are even some models For example, if you compare the Volkswagen ID4 with a Volkswagen Tiwan, you may be surprised that the Tiwan is going to be more expensive than an ID4 in its most basic version. That is happening in the year 2024 in Germany.
And that is let's say the last twist of the matter, if you are not able to sell electric cars and you are not able to sell electric cars with aid (subsidies from your pocket), the next thing you have left is to raise the price of the cars so much thermal, either by the brand or by the authorities, so that the electric car is much more favored in demand.
Electrification is going to continue to grow and the electric car should no longer be an object of debate about yes or no, because it is a technology that is here, that is maturing and on which lots of investments have been made and We are not going to live with it, but the question of at what speed, what are the prohibitions and what are the restrictions, which is really what worries me when it comes to purchasing a new car, under what conditions and with what technologies, That we can all choose that would be optimal.
But speaking of choosing, there are two regulations, one that is just around the corner, another that is a draft but very scary, this Regulation that we have learned that the European Union is developing in the future in which they want to directly restrict the possibilities that you can repair a car, from certain levels of breakdowns and from certain ages of the vehicles, this would truly mark a before and after.
It is a very serious, very serious issue, because what the European Union draft is directly pointing to is that those people who have a car that is more than 15 years old and have an accident or have a severe breakdown,
They would not have the right, they would not have permission to be able to repair that fault and they would be obliged to send the car to the scrapyard. That is the owner, that is the powerful point.
