Rare is the month - or week - that a manufacturer does not announce a specific date on which it plans to completely dispense with thermal engines. Until now, most of the brands that have cited a date have said it for the bars close to 2030. BMW This is not the case, and it is the most logical and sensible thing to do.
Honestly, when a manufacturer says that in a certain year they will stop developing, producing or selling vehicles with internal combustion engines, it does not help the sector. In fact, the opposite happens, because it generates insecurity and uncertainty in all customers, both of that brand and of any other.
Clearly manufacturers are very prepared to take that step that has been demanded of them from the highest levels of the European Union. Few are the brands that currently do not already have several electric models. In fact, we already see that the vast majority of the most important novelties presented in recent months have been electric vehicles.
But back to the point of this article, BMW sees no sense in specifying a date for the end of its thermal engines. In a recent interview with Automotive News, the BMW development chief Frank Weber, explained several reasons why they still do not consider it sensible to specify. And be careful, the German brand already has several 100% electric cars on the market.
For electric mobility, the question is not when the combustion engine runs out. The question is: When will the system be ready to absorb all those electrical? These are charging infrastructure and renewable energy. Are the people ready? Is the whole system ready? Is the charging infrastructure ready?
It also has to do with the fact that I have people working for me on combustion engines and I am going to change them over time to electric. It doesn't make sense to make the transition overnight. I have to make sure that this transition works perfectly, both for social and economic reasons. These are really important questions.
It seems that Mr. Weber is the only senior official of the major manufacturers in Europe who has wanted to give a wake-up call. And it is that, as we said, car manufacturers are working on the right path, on the path that they have been forced to. Nevertheless, What is the use of selling so many electric cars if everything else is not ready?
There are many factors to consider when making this transition and, as Frank Weber himself has said, it doesn't make sense to make the transition overnight. Everything has to be progressive.
The last thing we want is for customers to have to buy electric cars and there is no proper infrastructure. That does not interest anyone.
