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Germany gave its European partners a new “heat engine moment” on Friday by threatening to overturn new legislation on the automobile sector.
This requires manufacturers of European heavy goods vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tonnes, including buses, to become almost carbon neutral by 2040, through adjustments for trailers and semi-trailers and so-called “vehicles”. professionals”, like the garbage collectors’ bins.
According to the text finally validated by the Twenty-Seven, these new trucks placed on the market must gradually have reduced CO2 emissions by 45% in 2030, 65% in 2035 and 90% in 2040 compared to 2019. At the last moment, Berlin, as it did in March 2023 when confirming new rules prohibiting the placing on the market of cars with thermal engines in 2035, tried to add exemptions for synthetic fuels.
And the German government finally obtained, as last year, a way forward with an appeal to the European Commission to develop a system allowing the registration of trucks running on so-called “neutral” fuels.
Berlin's procrastination can be explained by differences between the three parties in the ruling coalition.