The proposal is an amendment to the European Commission’s preexisting “circularity requirements for vehicle design and on management of end-of-life vehicles.”
First reported in January by Outdoor Enthusiasts Magazine in the U.K., the publication says this consideration ‘aims to renew the car fleet and encourage Europeans to buy new, environmentally friendly vehicles.’
The Magazine noted: ‘The Brussels proposal is based on the concept of a residual vehicle, a category for vehicles over 15 years old whose faults affect the engine, gearbox, brakes, steering, chassis or bodywork. Therefore, if this regulation is approved, the repair or replacement of any of these components in a vehicle older than 15 years will be prohibited.’
Therefore, if a component or critical part of the vehicle cannot be repaired, this may impair the vehicle’s usage and just might cause it to to be sent to the junk heap. ‘Any vehicle destined for waste without polluting the environment and using part of its components is considered residual,’ the magazine clarifies.
OEM wrote:
If repair is not possible, this may be a consequence. At stake is end-of-life automobile waste management. In this case, from the oldest fragments. A way to promote the so-called circular economy.
The reality is that many Europeans choose to extend the useful life of their vehicles. Mostly due to lack of money to buy a new car. In Portugal, one in four vehicles is over 20 years old and the average age of registered cars is over 13 years. And it’s a trend that extends to the EU’s economic powers. For example, in Germany, the average age is already 10 years old.
The responsibility rests with the manufacturers. Adoption of criteria for reuse of auto parts is indeed at stake. In this case, manufacturers must provide detailed instructions for replacing parts, as well as determining whether a car is still being repaired or has reached the end of its useful life. What is this for? To prevent a car that is no longer in good condition from being sold as a used vehicle.
Needless to say, this would hit third-party auto mechanics very hard and might put them out of business, and could even potentially void the warranties on parts and vehicles in the repair is done at home.
The point of the law, the magazine says, is to become the first territory/bloc in the world to cut transportation emissions down to 55% by 2030 (less than 6 six years away), apart of the “Fit for 55” scheme, and to completely eliminate them by 2050. Additionally, Spanish-based JG Classics points out that the law would attempt to mitigate the spread of scraped components through uncontrolled third countries.
A more recent article by Euro Weekly also highlighted these proposals. The controversy has since caused some European car enthusiasts and repairmen to chastise the proposed amendments.
These proposals build on top of other recently passed edicts that officially ban combustion engine cars by 2035 in the EU:
- European Union Parliament Confirms That All Fossil Fuel Cars And Trucks Will Be Banned By 2035
- The United Nations Says Used Cars Need To Be Scrapped To Stop Emissions By 2030 & 2050
- London Mayor Plans To Enforce “Pay Per Mile” To Tax Drivers For Using Polluting Vehicles
- World Economic Forum Says They Want To Limit 76% Of Private Car Ownership By 2050
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Oh yes, because filing up landfills with rusted-out cars because it has one or two bad parts is very environmentally friendly, right? We of course know this has nothing to do with climate, but total control and mitigation of our actions and freedom of travel.
There are a number of U.S. states are doing the same thing, which thereby leverages auto manufacturers to change how many combustible engine cars and parts they produce.
Haven’t you heard? “You’ll own nothing and be happy” by 2030.
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Proverbs 12:5
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Thankful to God for blessing me with a car that has needed extremely few repairs. It’s a 2006, Mazda 6. So, it’s 18 years old. So the best alternative is to put it in a landfill and have me spend $30,000+ dollars? Even a newish used car is a minimum of $20,000. Just generalizing. But my search for a used car made me realize that for now I am better off keeping this 18 year old car that is NOT a lemon in anyway, with which God has truly been gracious to me. I’m just hoping for the Rapture before another car becomes a necessity for whatever reason. I don’t WANT an electric vehicle that can be turned off outside of my control. I have ALWAYS thanked God for this car. This world would be scary if we didn’t have our hope of being with Jesus.
Wanted 1967 V style Corvette.
The EU can shove their “to old to repair” nonsense in the landfill with themselves and their ideas.
Drive em till the wheels fall off and then put on new wheels
They don’t know the impact of what they are proposing, millions out of work!
Give those EU type’s Yugo’s instead of Bentleys
The EU parliament’s totalitarianism is the warm bath in which civilization slits its wrists. It envelops the people with petty rules, strange dogmas, immoral duties, and forced sacrifices.
It warms its victims with intoxicating promises of the EU parliament’s false love. It leaves the citizen naked — stripped first of his free will, then the thoughts in his head, and finally anything he once called his own.
It slowly dispossesses each person of his personhood, until the population withers into frail, colorless facsimiles of the bleak, omnipresent State. Without the courage to act, the desire to think, the wisdom to pray, or the conscience to object, human purpose disappears. Society’is exsanguinated of its vitality, creativity, spirituality, and mirth — until it slips beneath the water and stops breathing.
They can stick their proposal where the sun don’t shine I will keep my 97 grand marquis God blessed me with in 2019 It may be 27 years old but I guarantee you it is built better and is more reliable then any new version vehicle made of plastic and that runs on electricity and I control my driving not some ai nitwit.