The European Parliament has voted for an effective ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars on the European market from 2035, in a gesture that spells defeat for attempts to slow down Europe’s widespread switch to electric vehicles. A decision approved last June by the European Union’s environment ministers, who agreed on Tuesday on a common position to ban the sale of new cars and vans powered by combustion engines.
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.
But in addition, through Amendment 121, also known as the “Ferrari Amendment”, some manufacturers will have a pass to continue producing combustion engine vehicles, albeit under the strict Euro7 standards.
The amendment exempts brands that register between 1,000 and 10,000 units per year (or between 1,000 and 22,000 light commercial vehicles) from complying with the EU-imposed ban.
Despite the amendment’s nickname, the Ferrari company would have to revise its production as it surpassed 10,000 vehicle production with 11,155 sales in 2021, to take advantage of this exception, it would have to revise its car production figures.
Alpine and Lotus would also initially be included in the list of brands exempt from meeting the European standard, but both have already announced their intention to produce zero-emission vehicles before the end of this decade. The main beneficiaries of this change would thus be brands such as Aston Martin (6,178 registrations in 2021), Lamborghini (8,405 registrations in 2021), McLaren (2,138 registrations in 2021) or Rolls-Royce (5,586 registrations in 2021).
Specialized and craft manufacturers selling less than 1,000 vehicles per year are also not covered by the sales ban on combustion engine vehicles from 2030. These brands include Bugatti, Caterham, Morgan, Pagani or Koenigsegg.
Source: La Verdad
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