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EU Parliament: Lobbyists criticize the decision to end petrol and diesel cars

2022-06-08T19:59:06.744Z


From 2035, new cars in the EU should no longer be allowed to emit CO₂ – the EU Parliament has decided. The ADAC and the Association of the Automotive Industry are up in arms.


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Car exhaust: »Today the European Parliament gave a clear signal in the direction of a drive change«, enthuses the BUND

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The ADAC regrets the EU Parliament's call for a ban on the sale of new cars with combustion engines from 2035. "The ambitious climate protection goals in traffic cannot be achieved with electromobility alone," said the automobile club.

"It would therefore have been necessary to also open up a perspective for the climate-neutral fueled combustion engine."

From the point of view of ADAC Technical President Karsten Schulze, the European Council, in which the governments of the member states sit, is now required to »take a clear stance in favor of openness to technology and efficient CO2 reduction in order to reach a workable compromise in the trilogue negotiations.

With this in mind, Germany, as an important voice in Europe, should reconsider its negotiating position.«

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.

You can read all the background to the decision here.

Criticism also came from the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA).

The MEPs "made a decision against the citizens, against the market, against innovation and against modern technologies," explained VDA President Hildegard Müller.

The decision ignores “that there is not enough charging infrastructure in large parts of Europe.

It is therefore simply too early for such an objective.

This increases consumer costs and jeopardizes consumer confidence.«

Müller complained that politicians could not demand more speed from industry without creating the framework conditions themselves that would enable this speed.

In addition to the necessary expansion of the charging infrastructure, this also applies to the lack of digitization and the lack of commitment to the urgently needed raw material and energy partnerships.

Jens Hilgenberg, Head of Transport Policy at BUND, agreed to the decision of the EU Parliament: "Today the European Parliament sent a clear signal in the direction of a drive change."

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Source: spiegel

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