FIA aims to reduce carbon footprint

president of Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) Senate,Spanish Carmelo Sanzat the end of the 2022 FIA American Congress inauguration in Cartagena de Indias, Reduce carbon footprint Leaving motorsport in the world is a concern for the federation.

Also president of the Spanish Royal Automobile Club (RACE), he is, from the FIA, “a credible agenda around the world, bringing together the politicians on the one hand and the mobile, conventional and renewable energy industries on the other”.

Sanz will thus speak at the conference, which concludes this Monday-Wednesday, where representatives of America’s major auto clubs and President of the FIA ​​Executive Board, Mohamed Ben Sulayem, will meet.

The organization’s Senate Speaker acknowledged that environmental sustainability is a very complex issue.

The president of RACE said he believes oil companies themselves are not the stone in their shoes in developing clean energy.

“I don’t think you will lose your business like it happened in the energy industry. Because they have the ability to advance innovation and engineering and develop sustainable fuels,” Sanz said.

Plus, not everything has to be electric. To start working, we have to find something that unites us, ”he repeated.

Questions about sustainable mobility

The president of the Senate, the world’s premier automotive agency, said that while everyone wants mobility around the world to be sustainable, “we have to wait and see, but the truth is how this mobility I don’t know what it will be like,” he confessed.

As such, he says, “At this early stage, we are looking at components that complicate mobility rather than facilitate or improve it. Skateboards hit the sidewalks, electric bicycles become popular, and so on. I don’t know what lies ahead.

Therefore, one of the purposes of this FIA Americas meeting is to: “Finding a model that can be applied to the global project of sustainability and sustainable and safe mobility”According to Sanz, there is a realization that global solutions only exist at different times in different countries.

“What we can do in Bolivia today has nothing to do with what we can do in Costa Rica or Mexico,” he said.

Also, the President of the FIA, Mohammed Ben Sulayemannounced that they were going to give “Great support for karting in the Americas region”According to Sanz, “the possibility of hosting cross-karts in the region could be much cheaper than clubs and countries being able to start this type of competition.”