Chair of EABC Automotive Working Group at Automotive Summit 2014

Mr. Michael Grewe, Chair of EABC Automotive Working Group, spoke at the panel discussion on 19 June 2014, at the Automotive Summit 2014 co-organised by Thailand Automotive Institute and Reed Tradex, and co-sponsored by EABC.

With the AEC being viewed by the European automotive industry currently as a grouping of ten markets, Mr. Grewe emphasized the importance of harmonizing the technical standards and elimination of non-tariff barriers to trade among the member countries in order for the AEC to become a single market. On Thailand’s green mobility goal, he gave a few examples of supportive policies in the European Union which might be shared with Thailand, including among others, the fiscal subsidies for electric cars, CO2 legislation, the EU2020 CO2 target, and the entry regulation for city centers based on CO2 exhaust. He urged Thailand to also aim at the technology improvement in addition to production volume expansion, and anticipated that labor skills development would continue to be a crucial for the future development of the Thai automotive industry.