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EU Moves to Ease 2035 Ban on Internal Combustion Cars as Auto Industry Faces Headwinds
The EU considers allowing plug-in hybrids or range extenders and a possible five-year delay due to pressure from carmakers and member states divided on electrification progress.
- The European Commission advanced its review, moving proposed adjustments to the end of 2025 and sending them to the European Parliament while the European Union weighs a five-year reprieve after pressure from major automotive countries.
- European carmakers are pushing to allow hybrids with rechargeable batteries or range extenders, backed by Germany and eastern European nations, while France, Spain and Nordic countries urge sticking to electric models.
- Policymakers are debating options such as crop-based biofuels and allowing range-extender hybrids, which environmental groups oppose while the ACEA association called the 2035 CO2 targets unrealistic.
- Shifts now could create market uncertainty for consumers and suppliers, as the ban is key to the EU's carbon neutrality target for 2050 and vehicles' average service life is 15 years.
- Beyond emissions, choices now will shape industrial leadership, supply chains and local-content politics as the battery and electric-vehicle sector wants to keep the 2035 target, while UFE warns easing it would harm energy sovereignty.
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EU moves to ease 2035 ban on internal combustion cars as auto industry faces headwinds
The European Union is moving to dial back its total ban on cars with gas or diesel engines by 2035. Tuesday's proposal would replace a mandatory reduction of emissions by 100% by that date with a 90% reduction.
·United States
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On Tuesday the European Commission wants to inform about how the car will continue with the combustion engine. First hints have already leaked through. However, the debate will continue.
·Zürich, Switzerland
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The EU would have banned the sale of new vehicles powered by fossil fuels by 2035, but several member states, including Italy, had already objected to the proposal.
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