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Europe approves the ban on selling combustion cars in 2035


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With 339 votes in favor, 249 against and 24 abstentions, the European Union Plenary approved this Wednesday the ban on selling combustion vehicles from 2035, which in practice means the end of diesel and gasoline vehicles, but also bio and synthetic fuels. It is one of the measures that were submitted by the Environment Commission for debate and plenary approval, and one of the most important elements of the decarbonization policy to achieve climate neutrality in 2050.

In this way, a cut in emissions is set for new cars and vans of 65% by 2030 (currently set at 37.5% and 31% compared to 2019) compared to this year’s levels, and 100 % in 2035, which would mean the end of the era of combustion cars.

In 2020, the EU has already increased its emission reduction targets and aspires to carbon neutrality by 2050. And now it wants to propose new regulations to achieve that goal.

MEPs voted to require car manufacturers to reduce their fleet average emissions by 15% by 2025 compared to 2021, by 55% by 2030 and by 100% by 2035.

Citizens MEP Susana Solís, a member of the Industry and Environment committees of the European Parliament, explained to ABC that the result of the vote is extremely positive, since in the package of amendments put to the vote it has been decided “not to establish new obligations in the very short term (such as the increase of an additional 5% in the 2025 objectives) and offer legal certainty and flexibility to the industry, which already has to make a formidable transformation effort to reach the final objective: 100% reduction of CO2 emissions in 2035».

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According to what Solís has declared to this newspaper, “we can be satisfied after many months of work. In today’s vote we have succeeded in not imposing tougher intermediate objectives that could have suffocated Spanish industry by abruptly advancing the transition towards the electric car. The Commission’s proposal, ambitious enough, has been endorsed today by the chamber”.

The MEP considers that with this approval flexibility has been given to light van manufacturers “something crucial for Spain since we are the first producer of this type of vehicle in Europe”.

A revision of the Regulation has also gone ahead in 2027 “to ensure that we are technologically capable of achieving the objectives. Now the industry has a strong signal to plan its investments with a clear and stable legal framework.”

Susana Solís understands that “this law cannot be understood in isolation: it must be linked to the Charging Infrastructure Regulation, on which we are working, to ensure that there are ambitious objectives that oblige each Member State to install enough charging points If the electric car continues to be a luxury good and citizens cannot recharge it comfortably, we will not be able to achieve the decarbonisation objectives”.

Also from the organization
Transport & Environment (T&E)
have shown their satisfaction after the approval of this series of measures. According to Alex Keynes, manager of clean vehicles at T&E, “having a deadline means that the last combustion vehicles will be sold by 2035, which gives us a fighting chance to avoid runaway climate change.” combustion is also for environmentalists “a historic opportunity to help end our dependence on oil and make us safer from despots”. Finally, from T&E they affirm that the measures approved today by the European Union “provide the certainty that the automotive industry needed to increase the production of electric vehicles, which will reduce prices for drivers.

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