German Transport Minister and unlikely PH hero insists door must be left open for synthetic fuel use 🙌
If you were betting on a country to take issue with the EU’s directive on the sale of zero-emission cars, Germany would've been a shoo-in. Not just because they have a significant say in the bloc, but because its car industry has been responsible for some of the very best combustion engines ever.
The alternative fuels argument is the one currently being put forward by German Transport Minister Volker Wissing,. As it stands, there’s a non-binding part of EU law that a proposal will be made on cars being sold with carbon-neutral fuels post-2035 ‘if this complies with climate goals’.
There’s support for his viewpoint, too, with Italy’s Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin suggesting that his country’s position is that EVs “cannot be the only solution for the future”. It rather goes without saying that we’d love to see every avenue pursued to keep engines relevant.
Of course, plenty of others are firmly in the EV-only camp: Audi won’t build a combustion engine after 2033, and Germany’s own environment ministry backs the deal. Which must make for some tense meetings with transport right now. For the moment the EU seems committed to its original stance - delaying a vote this late is very unusual - but rubber-stamping the lawmakers' deal is apparently not going to be as simple as all that.
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