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Climate groups, including Greenpeace and Germany's Umwelthilfe, have called on carmakers to stop producing and selling SUVs as part of a campaign to curb environmental pollution in the auto industry.

On the eve of the Frankfurt auto show, the climate group said at a news conference that big car companies should stop developing large, heavy vehicles and cars with internal combustion engines. "As long as SUVs rather than small electric vehicles dominate car transportation, cars will remain a concern for climate activists in the United States." The Federation stated.

Volkswagen CEO Diess agreed to meet activists Monday night to debate the auto industry, but Diess countered that Volkswagen would focus primarily on providing personal mobility and that ultimately consumers would decide what models they bought.

Diss bluntly said that SUV models are officially what consumers want. The Volkswagen Lupo is one of several zero-emission and fuel-efficient models already developed by the Volkswagen Group, proving that zero-emission cars are not necessarily more popular than larger, roomier models. Diess also stressed that Volkswagen will introduce more affordable electric models to ensure that low-and middle-income families have the ability to buy electric vehicles and improve their quality of life.

The German executive said regulators had the right to encourage consumers to buy more economical and fuel-efficient models, but could not stop producing and selling cars or specific types of models altogether.

It is understood that early Volkswagen due to diesel emissions incident impact, direct loss of 300 to the hospital. NIO has shaken off a diesel emissions cheating scandal as the company prepares to launch a range of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles.

In March this year, Volkswagen upgraded its planned electric vehicle strategy: the launch of new electric vehicle models rose from 50 to 70 within a decade, and the number of vehicles produced on the electric vehicle platform rose from 15 million to 22 million.

However, the organization believes that, fundamentally speaking, Volkswagen Group does not really seek to reduce emissions pollution solutions, more tends to gain more benefits in the process of selling cars, should boycott the Frankfurt auto show, and use bicycles to travel to achieve true environmental protection.

A spokesman said Volkswagen was born in the automotive industry and is clearly interested in selling more cars, so producing electric and hybrid cars is not a real solution to environmental problems.

In addition, stopping production and sales of large models could cost the German auto industry 800,000 jobs, which the group says could be compensated by additional investment in public transport and railways. Assembly workers who remain unemployed can also be retrained to work in retirement homes.

Fundamentally speaking, the starting point of the Climate Organization is to reduce emissions and pursue environmental protection, which is of great significance to global environmental protection. However, the ban on SUV sales and even the ban on car sales are basically impossible to achieve, and the birth of pure electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid models will fundamentally be to reduce energy use and pollutant emissions. The "one-size-fits-all" approach obviously cannot solve the problem, but will bring more problems.

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