"Let's not waste any more time with synthetic fuels and focus on the use of recharging, on the retraining of workers for the electric transition and on the responsible supply of raw materials for batteries." His words from Carlos Rico, an expert in car electrification at T&E, an entity that has warned that if the exemptions from the 'Suitable for 55' package are not eliminated, the European Union could fail to meet its climate objectives for 2030.
The ecological organization values in this way the measures agreed by the EU Environment Ministers for the decarbonization of the automotive industry, among the fact that the common position to prohibit the sale of new cars and vans with a combustion engine in 2035.
The Twenty-seven have established an intermediate objective of reducing CO2 emissions of 55% for tourism in 2030 in line with the proposal of the European Commission, and 50% for vans for the same date, lowering the initial expectations of the Community Executive from 55%
Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia presented a proposal to postpone the end of cars and vans with combustion engines for 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.
However, from T&E they have stressed that the Member States have lost the opportunity to “margin” the price of fuel between suppliers and citizens, a provision proposed by Parliament that would guarantee that “big oils pay at a time when they are profiting from the Ukraine war.”
The Council's position, which must now be negotiated with the European Parliament to agree on a final legal text, highlights the importance of the implementation of the charging infrastructure in the Member States to guarantee the service to consumers.
