Small manufacturers excluded
Good news for fans of the Paganis, Morgans and Donkervoorts of this world: small car manufacturers will still be allowed to sell new cars with a combustion engine in the EU after 2035. This applies to all manufacturers who build up to 1,000 cars per year.
This week it became official: all new cars in the EU must be emission-free from 2035. For the sake of form, the plan still has to pass the European Council, but that is only a formality. So it is now certain: from 2035 onwards, car manufacturers may only sell zero-emission cars (cars without the classic ‘exhaust emissions’) in the EU. There is an exception, however, according to the EU’s official statement on the plans. This exception brings very good news for the Paganis and Donkervoorts of this world.
Small car manufacturers, defined by the EU as manufacturers who build up to 1,000 cars per year, are allowed to build and sell cars with emissions in the EU – also after 2035. If we take the wording on the EU website literally, it seems points out that the exception only applies to manufacturers who build a total of up to 1,000 cars per year, not to manufacturers who deliver up to 1,000 new cars per year in the EU. Take McLaren: it builds more than 1,000 cars a year, but delivers less than 1,000 cars a year in the EU.
It is certainly good news for manufacturers such as Donkervoort, Morgan, Pagani, Koenigsegg, Rimac, Bugatti, Zenvo, KTM, Ariel, BAC and Radical. In any case, those brands produce less than 1,000 cars per year and are therefore allowed to continue to do so. And…are we forgetting one more?
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl