It appears Europe is bearish on the 2035 ban on internal combustion engines (ICE). A German lawmaker, Manfred Weber, president of the European People’s Party, speaking to German newspaper Bild, said the initial 100% carbon dioxide reduction on ICE will be dialled back to 90%, indicating a certain pessimism from the government on the adoption of electric vehicles.
“For new registrations from 2035 onwards, a 90% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions will now be mandatory for car manufacturers’ fleet targets, instead of 100%,” Weber told the newspaper. “There will also be no 100% target from 2040 onwards. This means that the technology ban on combustion engines is off the table,” as reported in Motorcycle News.
This softening of the requirement is a reversal of the European Union’s previous stance of no new ICE manufacture after 2035, and a complete ban on new ICE vehicles in 2040. Speculation indicates this comes “after months of pushback from numerous manufacturers, including Volkswagen, Stellantis, Renault, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW, who have argued that consumers should ultimately decide the pace of electrification.”
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first they champion diesel, then banned diesel because they realized NoX pollutes cities. then they championed EVs. now ban EV plak. EU u-turn even more than the malaysian govt.
Huh? Forget article, you didn’t even read the title didn’t you.
are you stupid or what, tak reti baca, where does it say eu banning ev in the article? next time comment u read first lah like in tadika
the point here is that EU is rolling back incentives for EVs so by starting to discouraging EVs this is really the latest u-turn in a long history of u-turns.
This shows the stupidity of EU of being too confident until they have discharged themselves from the reality.
Who’s laughing? Toyota.
They knew all the way. And they tried to explain but no one accepted instead calling toyota stupid.
Again, its Toyota.
Today.
Tomorrow.
Toyota.
European starting to realise Global Warming is a political agenda driven hoax wakaka
Nay there couldn’t mass produced commercialised ev batteries competitively versus East Asian masters
Europe, under EU is killing itself… allowing illegal migrants from thereligionofpeace and destroying its own culture just to implement communism!!(one world gov)
thanks to government policy, we are also dumping ground for unwanted citizens from other countries, so sampah cars suit sampah rakyat like ours.