This text is equivalent to the de facto cessation of sales of new petrol and diesel cars and light commercial vehicles in the EU on this date, as well as hybrids, in favor of 100% electric vehicles.
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On the right track. MEPs and the Member States of the European Union reached an agreement, on the evening of Thursday, October 27, on European legislation which provides for the end of the sale of new thermal engine vehicles by 2035. “Historic EU climate decision”tweeted French MEP Pascal Canfin, chairman of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee.
We have just finished negotiations on CO2 standards for cars. Historic decision of for the climate which definitively confirms the objective of 100% zero emission vehicles in 2035 with intermediate stages in 2025 and 2030. (1/2)
—Pascal Canfin (@pcanfin) October 27, 2022
The Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of the EU’s “Green Deal”, Frans Timmermans, welcomed an agreement which “sends a strong signal to industry and consumers: Europe is moving towards emission-free mobility”.
The approved text, which is based on a Commission proposal in July 2021, plans to reduce CO2 emissions from new cars in Europe to zero from 2035. This amounts to a de facto halt in car sales and new petrol and diesel light commercial vehicles in the EU on that date, as well as hybrids (petrol-electric), in favor of 100% electric vehicles.
While the car, the main mode of transport for Europeans, represents just under 15% of total CO2 emissions in the EU, the new regulations must contribute to achieving the continent’s climate objectives, in particular carbon neutrality in the EU. horizon 2050.
This is the first agreement on a text of the European climate package (“Fit for 55”) aimed at reducing the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990. It endorses the CO2 emissions reduction target for 2030 of -55% for new cars and -50% for new vans, compared to 2021.