The text prohibiting the marketing of thermal vehicles in Europe from 2035 was finally adopted after an agreement was reached with Germany.
Like some countries, Germany did not want to adopt the ban on the sale of vehicles with internal combustion engines from 2035, as long as the contours of the use of synthetic fuels have not been specified. Indeed, while it lacked the approval of the Council of the European Union to finalize the project, Germany chose to be against it.
The European Union has indeed zapped the component of synthetic fuel thermal engines, while it had adopted a few exceptions to be able to market thermal vehicles for manufacturers selling less than 10,000 vehicles per year nicknamed in particular “Ferrari Amendment”.
Although the text remains unchanged, the European Commission and Germany have reached an agreement, which confirms the decision to ban combustion engines for sale in 2035. A separate proposal for combustion engines should arrive in 2024 “s ‘they only use neutral fuels in terms of CO2 emissions’.
