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EU Parliament to ban new cars with combustion engines from 2035

2022-06-08T16:42:00.125Z


EU Parliament to ban new cars with combustion engines from 2035 Created: 06/08/2022Updated: 06/08/2022, 18:40 By: Christoph Gschossmann The exhaust of a car with a combustion engine: From 2035, no new cars of this type will be allowed to be sold in the EU. © picture alliance / dpa/symbol image Combustion engine cars could soon be a thing of the past. The EU Parliament has voted in favor of a c


EU Parliament to ban new cars with combustion engines from 2035

Created: 06/08/2022Updated: 06/08/2022, 18:40

By: Christoph Gschossmann

The exhaust of a car with a combustion engine: From 2035, no new cars of this type will be allowed to be sold in the EU.

© picture alliance / dpa/symbol image

Combustion engine cars could soon be a thing of the past.

The EU Parliament has voted in favor of a corresponding ban from 2035.

Strasbourg / Munich - The combustion engine will soon be on the scrap heap: In the fight for more climate protection, the EU Parliament wants to ban the sale of new cars with combustion engines from 2035.

A majority of MEPs voted in Strasbourg on Wednesday that from the middle of the next decade manufacturers will only be allowed to bring cars and vans onto the market that do not emit any greenhouse gases that are harmful to the climate.

Before such a regulation can come into force, Parliament still has to negotiate with the EU states.

The EU states want to determine their position on the ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars by the end of the month.

Then the two EU institutions still have to find a compromise so that it can come into force. 

Germany has already committed to the exit date of 2035.

On behalf of the federal government, Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) said in Brussels in March that the goal was to end the use of combustion engines in cars and vans by 2035.

At the world climate conference in Glasgow in November, several major car manufacturers, including Mercedes and Ford, called for a sales ban on combustion engines in the leading markets from 2035.

Combustion engine ban: “We have decided in favor of the future of Europe as an automotive location”

After the vote, the German Green MP Michael Bloss said on Wednesday: "We have decided in favor of the future of Europe as an automotive location." In the future, the best electric cars and the latest batteries will come from Europe.

MEPs also advocated that no climate-friendly synthetic fuels can be counted.

With these, a classic combustion engine could be operated in a climate-neutral manner.

However, critics fear that there are already too few of these for aviation and shipping, which are less easy to operate electrically than cars or vans.

Combustion engine ban from 2035: criticism from the CDU

The CDU criticized the step.

"Unfortunately, the Greens, Liberals and Social Democrats prefer to put everything on the electric mobility card," said CDU MEP Jens Gieseke.

In his own words, he fears for Europe's competitiveness and numerous jobs.

But he conceded: "The ban on combustion engines in 2035 will probably no longer be preventable."

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The draft law is part of the EU's "Fit for 55" climate package, which aims to reduce harmful emissions by 55 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.

This is now also to be achieved with the combustion engine ban.

(cg with dpa)

Source: merkur

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