The dispute over the combustion engine is heating up tempers between Berlin and Brussels.
A line of compromise is now emerging.
Berlin/Brussels - According to Spiegel,
a solution is emerging in the dispute between Berlin and Brussels over the end of the combustion engine
.
Hartmut Höppner, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport, submitted a compromise proposal to the EU Commission on Thursday evening in an e-mail that was available to the news magazine.
According to this, Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) has moved away from his earlier demand to renegotiate the planned fleet limits so that cars with combustion engines can still be approved after 2035.
The new limit values stipulate that cars and light commercial vehicles registered in the EU may no longer emit greenhouse gases from 2035.
Verbrenner-Aus: Commission should make "explanation".
"Instead, Wissing's ministry is now demanding that the Commission make another statement "in the course of the acceptance" of the new CO₂ limit values," says the report.
In it, she is supposed to assure that the registration of cars powered exclusively by so-called e-fuels will also be possible after 2035.
Such a passage is already in the planned law on the new CO₂ limits, but only in the form of a legally non-binding so-called recital.
According to the report, the Ministry of Transport is now demanding that the Commission commit itself in its declaration to presenting a so-called delegated legal act by autumn of this year.
It is intended to determine how cars powered exclusively by e-fuels can contribute to the EU targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
In addition, the Commission should implement its previous offer to create a new category for e-fuel cars as soon as possible.
Ordinance on new CO2 limit values no longer in view
According to Spiegel,
however , Wissing's ministry apparently no longer wants to touch the regulation on the new CO₂ limits
.
The Commission, the European Parliament and the member states had agreed on the regulation before the federal government announced its abstention at the last minute.
Since other countries such as Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Austria are also against it, the law could not initially be passed as planned.
Wissing's ministry presented a completely different proposal last week.
According to this, cars with combustion engines from 2035 would not have had to be refueled exclusively with synthetic e-fuels generated with electricity.
Instead, manufacturers should continue to be able to sell cars with internal combustion engines - which could also have been fueled with a fuel mix of e-fuels and petrol or diesel.
The new proposal from the Ministry of Transport now only mentions vehicles with combustion engines “that only use CO₂-neutral fuels”.
For them, even after 2035, "a perspective should be created that they can be newly approved".