Mainly Commercial Vehicles
The European Commission Wants To Examine later this year Whether It is Still Feasible and Smart To Ban The Sale of Cars With A Combustion Engine from 2035.
The decision-making on this will thus be brought Forward, Reuters Reports, because the plan was previously to examine in 2026 Whether the Ambitions Are Still Achievable. It is all about the decision announced in 2022 to complete stop the sale of new cars with a combustion engine in the eu by 2035, with a few marginal exceptions. A few years ago, that still seemed like a pretty good idea for those who would prefer the entire European fleet to be electric as quickly as possible, but it has spread that the measure poses some problems. The Demand for Evs in the Market Has Recently Lagged Significant Behind Predictions and Car Manufacturers Are Threatening to Get Into Trouble (OR Already are) every The Development Money Has Been Spent on Technology That Too Few People Are Now Asking For. Meanwhile, More and More Competition is Coming from Distant Foreign Countries, Making the ‘Disaster Package’ Complete For Many Brands.
Time for a reconsideration, therefore, and that is slowly but surely happening. Commission President Ursala von der Leyen (Photo) is Increasingly Showing That She is open to Practical Plans That Were Once Considered Undirable, also in the Automotive Field. For example, The Possibility of a Vehicle Category With Perhaps Somewhat Less Strict Safety Requirements Should be Considered, in Order to Arrive at Small and Affordable EVS for and by Europeans. Also, the revision of the 2035 plan is back on the table, and accordance to reuters, that should Happen this year. For the sake of clarity: this obviously does not mean that the plan will be withdrawn, only that will be re-examined how feasible and desirable the ‘ban’ of 2035 is now. In Doing So, The Focus would Mainly Be on Commercial Vehicles, because in that part of the market, Only 8.5 percent of the cars Sold in the EU are Electric.