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This emerges from a regulatory proposal by the Brussels authorities, which was presented to the Reuters news agency on Tuesday.
However, the prerequisite should be that the new vehicle category can only be operated with synthetic fuels generated with the help of electricity. The cars would have to be able to technically recognize when, for example, petrol or diesel had been filled up and then switch off automatically. Such a type class of cars could then also be re-registered after 2035.
An agreement was thus within reach. Europe Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) does not believe in a deal before the meeting of the 27 EU heads of state and government on Thursday and Friday, but in an “open debate”, as she put it on Tuesday. The German Minister of State for Europe Anna Lührmann, on the other hand, expects an agreement before then.
ÖVP General Secretary Christian Stocker saw progress. “As the People’s Party, we are finally seeing movement on the part of the EU Commission. The People’s Party rightly assessed the originally planned ban on new registrations of combustion engines as wrong. Sustainable, renewable fuels such as e-fuels are an important part of the mobility transition mosaic,” said Stocker in a broadcast.
Actually, negotiators in the European Parliament and the EU states had already agreed in autumn that only zero-emission new cars would be allowed to be registered in the EU from 2035. A confirmation of the so-called trilogue result by the EU states, which was planned for the beginning of March, was canceled due to additional demands from Germany.
In addition to the German Minister of Transport, Volker Wissing (FDP), Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) recently spoke out against completely banning the internal combustion engine. You rely on the promotion of synthetic fuels. Nehammer had also announced that he wanted to vote against phasing out combustion engines in the European Council.
According to the German Press Agency, the German Minister of State Lührmann now emphasized that it was agreed that the trilogue result would apply. At the same time, the German government is talking to the EU Commission about how the recital will be implemented in practice. “I expect these talks to be completed before the summit.”
French Secretary of State for Europe Laurence Boone reiterated Paris’ stance on Tuesday that there was an agreement. “I think we should stick to what has been agreed.”
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