The future of Britain’s car industry will be under threat unless the country urgently builds battery factories to feed its car plants, the chief executive of Vauxhall-owner Stellantis has warned.
Stellantis boss Carlos Tavares on Wednesday labelled as "useless" the part of the so-called Euro 7 standards tightening car emission limits for pollutants including nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide from 2025. Tavares has previously criticised the Euro 7 standards as a waste of time and money, as they would require carmakers to invest money in technology to cut emissions in fossil-fuel models that the European Union intends to ban as of 2035 anyway. He said Stellantis would limit the number of Euro 7 applications to the minimum, while aiming to ramp up electrification as fast as possible.