‘Come up with a plan for CO2-free fuel for internal combustion engines’
On 14 February, the European Parliament approved plans to only allow the sale of cars that do not emit CO2 in the European Union from 2035. Germany seems to be blocking the actual implementation of those plans and Italy is not eager to give it a final blow.
A bird’s-eye view. On February 14, the European Parliament approved the law that dictates that from 2035, almost only passenger cars and light commercial vehicles that no longer emit CO2 may be sold in the European Union. Small manufacturers that build up to 1,000 cars per year escape the dance. Nevertheless, in the European Union, sales of cars with petrol and diesel engines seem to have come to an end. Although the plan has been piloted by the European Parliament, ministers of the EU countries involved still have to express their final support for the plans on March 7 to make things really final. Germany and Italy do not seem to be planning to do that, writes Automotive News.
Germany saw in the EU plans a way to give combustion engines a future after all. There is talk of a ban on the sale of cars that emit CO2 and not specifically on the sale of cars with a combustion engine. Germany convinced the European Commission to come up with a bill that would allow the sale of cars that like CO2-neutral fuel after 2035. The German Transport Minister Volker Wissing said this week that the European Commission has still not come up with that proposal to date and that Germany has therefore not given a final agreement on the plans that are already in place for 2035. way to stand in like Germany. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke out strongly against the EU plans at the beginning of this year. Meloni believes that ‘clean fuels’ can enable the ‘green transition’ without economic impact on European citizens.
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