According to foreign media reports, as many people cheered for the latest zero-emission plan for the EU , Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis vowed to defend the country's key automobile manufacturing industry and rejected the EU's proposal to make all new cars zero-emissions by 2035. "We will not agree to ban the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles." Czech will give priority to discussing the proposal when it takes over the rotating presidency of the EU in the second half of 2022.
Babish stressed that we have repeatedly stated that the EU must set climate goals without damaging our automobile industry. Setting climate goals must be done reasonably.
Babish said that the Czech Republic is one of the countries with the highest per capita automobile production in the world. The automobile industry is a pillar industry of the Czech economy, accounting for 26% of the total industrial output value and more than 9% of GDP. The Czech Republic is the production base of Skoda Auto, a subsidiary of Volkswagen .
The transformation of the Czech Republic to electric vehicles faces huge challenges. The Czech Republic has three factories: Skoda, Hyundai and Toyota-Peugeot-Citroon (TPCA). They all have at least launched some pure electric vehicles or hybrids. Currently, it is estimated that only 10% of the cars produced on the Czech production line are electric vehicles. Babish also said that the Czech Republic will support the construction of electric vehicles infrastructure, but will not subsidize electric vehicle production.
Some industry insiders insist that the transformation of the Czech Republic to electric vehicles is a challenge that coexists with crises and opportunities. In the upgrading of the Czech industry, the proportion of high-value-added services such as R&D should be increased to promote the overall modernization of the economic model.
To transform into electric vehicles, the Czech Republic requires a lot of knowledge, technology and investment, which makes them rely heavily on EU support. The Czech Republic promises to spend nearly 1.2 billion euros of the 7.2 billion euros received from the EU Recovery Fund for the development of sustainable transportation and clean transportation.
The Czech government plans to spend 2 billion euros to build a super factory to produce batteries, which also increases people's hope. The project aims to leverage the large amount of lithium energy storage that the country has, and the government is reportedly discussing the project with Volkswagen.
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