Quelles voitures les Européens conduiront-ils en 2030 ?

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What will Europeans be driving in 2030?

[Euractiv]

Car manufacturers envision a mostly electrified European market by 2030, in which car sharing schemes will have taken off in city centres, new mobility operators will offer multiplatform transport packages, and the age of ‘the prosumer’ could be upon us.

But for now, they are staying focused on the bottom line. “We can imagine a world [by 2030] where the majority of cars will be plugged in, and some form of hybridisation will be the dominant technology,” Ayoul Grouvel, head of Peugeot electric vehicles projects, told EurActiv. Peter Mock, an environmental scientist at the International Council for Clean Transportation, agreed. “By 2030 we’ll all be driving hybrids,” he said. “We will already be in the phase where you go one step further, [with] an increasing number of electric cars in Europe.” “The advantages of hybrids are obvious,” Grouvel said. “You can go where you want with zero emissions in city centre. It is the best of both worlds but the drawback is cost. We have 10 years to reduce that.” Within 20 years,  emerging markets in India and Africa are expected to be driving major growth in the world’s car industry, while new mobility operators in mega-cities will sprout, offering multiplatform transport packages that utilise electric cars, bikes and public transport.
Today’s electric vehicles can only run at top speed for short periods of time before over-heating, but a European Commission report last year predicted that their performance  - and range - would soon increase.

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