T&E asks European Union not to “waste time” on synthetic fuels

Environmental organization warns that the 2030 CO2 targets will not be met with the ‘Fit for 55’ exemptions

“Let’s stop wasting time on synthetic fuels and focus on charging deployment, retraining employees for the electric transition and responsible sourcing of raw materials for batteries.” These are the words of Carlos Rico, an expert in auto electrification at T&E, an organization that has warned that if the exemptions from the ‘Fit for 55’ package are not eliminated, the European Union may not meet its 2030 climate targets.

The environmental organization therefore appreciates the measures agreed by EU environment ministers for the decarbonisation of the car industry, including the common position to ban the sale of new cars and vans with combustion engines by 2035.

The Twenty-seven have set an interim target to reduce CO2 emissions from cars by 55% by 2030, in line with the European Commission’s proposal, and 50% for vans by the same date, raising the Community Executive’s initial expectations of 55%.

Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia have proposed to postpone the end of cars and vans with combustion engines by five years, until 2040.

Germany, for its part, expressed its rejection of this 2035 deadline after German Finance Minister Christian Lindner called it a “wrong decision” last week.

From T&E, however, they have emphasized that member states have lost the ability to “split” the price of fuel between suppliers and citizens, a provision proposed by Parliament that would guarantee that “the big oil companies pay when they are profiting from the war in Ukraine.”

The Council’s position, now to be negotiated with the European Parliament in order to agree on a final legal text, emphasizes the importance of building charging infrastructure in Member States to ensure consumer services.

Source: La Verdad

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