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Bosses at two of Europe’s biggest car manufacturers have called an acceleration of Europe’s transition to electric vehicles as tensions continue in the EU over the race to ban the traditional combustion engine.
Carlos Tavares, the chief executive of Stellantis, which owns the Peugeot, Vauxhall, Jeep and Citroën brands, and Martin Sanger, the sales chief of Volkswagen passenger cars, used the Paris motor show to warn those, including political parties on the right, fighting the switch to green driving.
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