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Drivers of the Russian car industry: cognitive dissonance or contempt for people

  • October 27, 2022
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Remember what the engineer Shurik said to the annoying building manager in the famous film: “When you speak, Ivan Vasilyevich, you have the impression that you are delusional.”

Drivers of the Russian car industry: cognitive dissonance or contempt for people
Remember what the engineer Shurik said to the annoying building manager in the famous film: “When you speak, Ivan Vasilyevich, you have the impression that you are delusional.” The same feeling arises when you listen to some of our or automotive industry officials.

Examples of this are the darkness, which causes justifiable bewilderment: either the speechwriters have completely lost their professionalism, or the celestials don’t care what ordinary fellow citizens think of them. Quite recently – literally last week – in the field of illogic, none other than Sergey Anikeev, NAMI’s deputy general director for Technical Regulations, was noticed. He spoke about his view on the overdue changes to the technical regulations.

Well, who would argue that the fate of our auto industry, which is completely legally covered in a brass bowl over the madness of its leadership at all levels, requires urgent intervention from the regulatory authorities. It may be a little late, but better late than never.

However, the hope that Sergei Alexandrovich would tell neophytes about some groundbreaking ideas matured in the depths of his revered institution did not materialize in the most offensive way. Instead of explaining to the people how our producers will learn to do what the whole civilized and not very world has been able to do for a long time, he went to work out all the main points of the liberal training manual. I certainly did not imagine that in the current difficult historical phase, the most important thing for us is decarbonisation and increasing energy efficiency.

It is of course nice to make the production of cars that meet the Euro-6 standard and the introduction of monitoring of CO2 emissions one of the main goals. In addition, NAMI proposes to require all domestic manufacturers not to violate the established standards.

You naturally wonder, what is the illogicality here? It seems that there is simply a break with reality: let a person dream that our factories can produce engines that correspond to the framework he proposes. However, the fact is that at the same time it was announced that the Government Decree No. 855, which ended on February 1 next year, was extended until November 1, 2023.

What was so great about this decision? The fact that it threw our car industry back to the last century, allowing the production of cars with a zero (zero, Valera!) Ecological class, without ABS, ESP and a catalytic converter. What kind of “Euro-6” is the deputy director of NAMI talking about?

In addition, it would simultaneously poison the lives of fuel producers and force them to also meet environmental requirements for compliance with the same Euro-6. Well, why did they fall under the distribution? The icing on the cake was the proposal to return to the production of natural gas cars.

Once this initiative has already perished without being born. In a more or less prosperous 2021, the gas filling stations, the number of which is very small, were only 34% full. Why bring up this issue now, if there isn’t a single stable operating company producing the most traditional petrol cars in the country? We already see the Chinese as technological gurus and are going to import cars from Uganda. What kind of “Euro-6” can one dream of here?

Involuntarily, the thought creeps in that the helmsman of our auto industry has no plan to save the industry from disaster – not smart or stupid, but not at all! Therefore, they habitually continue to appeal to Western mainstream ideas, whose “environmental importance” used to be able to disguise the absence of truly valuable management decisions. But against the backdrop of today’s harsh reality, such statements raise serious suspicions that their authors are in a state of cognitive dissonance.

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Examples of this are the darkness, which causes justifiable bewilderment: either the speechwriters have completely lost their professionalism, or the celestials don’t care what ordinary fellow citizens think of them. Quite recently – literally last week – in the field of illogic, none other than Sergey Anikeev, NAMI’s deputy general director for Technical Regulations, was noticed. He spoke about his view on the overdue changes to the technical regulations.

Well, who would argue that the fate of our auto industry, which is completely legally covered in a brass bowl over the madness of its leadership at all levels, requires urgent intervention from the regulatory authorities. It may be a little late, but better late than never.

However, the hope that Sergei Alexandrovich would tell neophytes about some groundbreaking ideas matured in the depths of his revered institution did not materialize in the most offensive way. Instead of explaining to the people how our producers will learn to do what the whole civilized and not very world has been able to do for a long time, he went to work out all the main points of the liberal training manual. I certainly did not imagine that in the current difficult historical phase, the most important thing for us is decarbonisation and increasing energy efficiency.

It is of course nice to make the production of cars that meet the Euro-6 standard and the introduction of monitoring of CO2 emissions one of the main goals. In addition, NAMI proposes to require all domestic manufacturers not to violate the established standards.

You’re naturally wondering, what’s the illogicality here? It seems that there is simply a break with reality: let a person dream that our factories can produce engines that correspond to the framework he proposes. However, the fact is that at the same time it was announced that the Government Decree No. 855, which ended on February 1 next year, was extended until November 1, 2023.

What was so great about this decision? The fact that it threw our car industry back to the last century, allowing the production of cars with a zero (zero, Valera!) Ecological class, without ABS, ESP and a catalytic converter. What kind of “Euro-6” is the deputy director of NAMI talking about?

In addition, it would simultaneously poison the lives of fuel producers and force them to also meet environmental requirements to meet the same Euro-6. Well, why did they fall under the distribution? The icing on the cake was the proposal to return to the production of natural gas cars.

Once this initiative has already perished without being born. In a more or less prosperous 2021, the gas filling stations, the number of which is very small, were only 34% full. Why bring up this issue now, if there isn’t a single stable operating company producing the most traditional petrol cars in the country? We already see the Chinese as technological gurus and are going to import cars from Uganda. What kind of “Euro-6” can one dream of here?

Involuntarily, the thought creeps in that the helmsman of our auto industry has no plan to save the industry from disaster – not smart or stupid, but not at all! Therefore, they habitually continue to appeal to Western mainstream ideas, whose “environmental importance” used to be able to disguise the absence of truly valuable management decisions. But against the backdrop of today’s harsh reality, such statements raise serious suspicions that their authors are in a state of cognitive dissonance.

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