The EU actually wants to stop allowing new cars with combustion engines from 2035 onwards.
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Brussels The EU states will not make a final decision next Tuesday on the blanket ban on new cars with combustion engines from 2035, as originally planned. This was announced by a spokesman for the responsible Swedish EU Council Presidency on Friday in Brussels.
The German Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) had announced that he would not be able to agree to a negotiated agreement on the ban. As long as the EU Commission does not show how new combustion engines with e-fuels can still be operated after 2035, Germany cannot agree. Wissing had been criticized for this, especially by the Green coalition partner.
Economic State Secretary Sven Giegold (Greens) therefore withdrew on Thursday at the sidelines of an EU meeting in Brussels to the well-known position of the federal government: “We have always said as Germany: We support the end of old, conventional combustion engines, but we want to outside the Fleet limits, i.e. outside of this law, a solution for such combustion engines that are only operated with sustainable e-fuels. ”The EU Commission must now convince all coalition partners that such measures are being implemented, demanded Giegold – including the FDP.
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In an interview with the Funke media group, Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner reiterated the FDP’s no to a complete ban on new combustion vehicles in the EU.
“It is our goal that new cars with combustion engines will still be registered in Germany after 2035,” said the FDP leader. “However, these vehicles then have to run on climate-friendly eco-fuel.”
Newly registered combustion vehicles would remain an exception after 2035. However, this technology will continue to play a major role worldwide, “the technological know-how must therefore be preserved in an export country like Germany”.
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