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Electric vehicles in 2035: it is not won

2023-03-06T16:54:48.001Z


NEWS - Several European countries are questioning the end of the heat engine in 2035, to the point of postponing the final vote.


It was supposed to be a formality.

In the wake of the approval by a vote, on February 14, by 340 votes against 279 and 21 abstentions, of the project to ban the marketing of new vehicles with thermal engines in 2035, the European Council of Twenty-Seven was to ratify the decision on March 3.

Backfire.

Nothing happened as planned.

All over Europe, dissenting voices are beginning to emerge.

If we have known for several weeks that Italy is against the single thought which would consist of imposing a single technology on European citizens - in this case the battery-powered and hydrogen-powered electric vehicle - other countries and not the least voiced their disapproval.

Germany said it would abstain while Poland and Bulgaria expressed doubts.

Result:

the qualified majority of the Twenty-Seven which is required (favourable vote of at least 55% of the states representing at least 65% of the population of the EU) was no longer achieved.

This is how the vote initially postponed to Tuesday March 7 has since been postponed to a later date.

No doubt the time for lobbying to do its work.

Synthetic fuel, at the center of discussions

On the front line, Berlin pleads for the green light to be given to synthetic fuels after 2035. Porsche, one of the brands of the VW group, is a fervent defender of this alternative technology which has the attraction of being able to propel the entire existing fleet .

The impact would be immediate on emissions from the fleet, estimated at 1.3 billion vehicles worldwide.

The European Union would have dispensed with this procrastination all the more since a press release from the NGO Transport & Environment establishes that two thirds of European battery production planned by 2030 risks being delayed, reduced or canceled .

In question, the billions of dollars of subsidies that the United States would be ready to grant to industrialists wishing to take advantage of the environmental program Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

Implementation projects would thus be on hold.

For the record, Europe has planned to acquire a battery production capacity equivalent to 18 million electric vehicles, or 1.2 TWh.

And the organization concludes that "without this capacity, Europe will not be able to meet its battery demand on its own and will have to import."

As we can see, many obstacles still stand in the way of zero emissions.

In short, the electric car is far from won.

Source: lefigaro

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