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fter months of hesitation, the European Union is backtracking on its ban on selling new internal combustion engine vehicles from 2035. On Tuesday, December 16, the European Commission put forward a series of relaxations that would partly hollow out one of the flagship measures of the European Green Deal, whose goal was to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
Automakers would be able to keep selling plug-in hybrid vehicles equipped with both an electric battery and a gasoline engine, as well as electric cars fitted with gasoline-powered range extenders, after 2035. The target for reducing CO2 emissions compared to 2021 would fall from 100% to 90%.
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Electric cars: European carmakers lobby Brussels to extend combustion engine deadline
