Are you ready to lay off half a million workers across the EU? If you take electric cars …
At a time when we talk, at EU level, only of "Energy transition, the European association of automotive components manufacturers (CLEPA) has carried out research to do what the Commission never does: assess the impact on the economy and on the lives of citizens of their own decisions.
CLEPA assumes three scenarios: a "Mixed" transition, in which the introduction of electric coexists with new, rigid standards for internal combustion cars, the so-called EURO7, a second standard in which it is expected that from 2026 there will be only total or electric hybrid cars, and a restrictive one that foresees the introduction of virtually only electric cars with extremely restrictive EURO7 criteria from 2026 and the complete cessation of internal combustion engine production from 2040.
The results are very interesting: in the case of application of the more restrictive profile, a reduction of almost 500 thousand jobs is expected across the EU.
There are 450 thousand fewer workers at European level. Why this reduction in jobs? Simple: electric cars have only a third of the components of internal combustion ones (they do not have, for example, radiators, injection systems, ignition, etc.). The components are few, but expensive, let's think about the batteries. Not only are many of these components important, such as many parts of the batteries.
Italy would be one of the most affected countries, with 62,000 fewer jobs.
Curiously, or not, France is the country that is least at risk, in terms of the number of jobs.
So when you buy electric cars or spend your money on their absolute introduction, think about how many people will lose their jobs because of your choices. To "Save the environment" by destroying natural environments to extract lithium and cobalt …
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