In the middle of last July, the European Union announced its proposal to abandon the sale of combustion cars and hybrids in 2035, forcing manufacturers to only electric. The vast majority of brands have already indicated a specific year in which they will change their business, while others ask for a delay. One of the commissioners is committed to maintaining combustion with more taxes.
In the European Union they do not finish clarifying, at the same time that manufacturers are beginning to ask for delays in the approval of the year that will mean the definitive abandonment of combustion. The proposal of the community countries has focused on the year 2035, although it is not yet final. While some of the large manufacturers have already indicated the specific year – between 2024 and 2030 – for the change of model, many others ask for a greater delay.
Something that remains to be seen and that, for now, there is no answer, since the final year has not been voted. And is that the fact charging the combustion, it also implies doing it with hybrids and plug-insThe latter being the ones that generously lower the emission figures. To this is added that not all Europeans can access an electric car if its price follows the same line as that of current models, the absence of recharging points or the state of capacity in the power lines of the countries. It is a cluster that makes a bigger and bigger ball.
Taxes for CO2 emissions in 2035, the proposal to force the switch to an electric car
Still, there is no hope of steps back. The European Union still considers a Euro 8 standard possible, which would enter into force in 2035 and that it would mean a 100% reduction in average CO2 emissions in new cars, so that the vote for the year of cessation of emissions would be almost worthless. An important leap if we take into account that Euro 7 will mean a reduction in emissions to 37.5% and 60% by 2030.
Frans Timmermans, Vice-President for Ecological Policy of the European Commission, has also added his grain of sand. The Dutchman is one of the strongest betting on electric cars in Europe, and on a charging infrastructure to match, aiming at the need to build a large network at reasonable distances from work centers and residences. Something logical considering the imposition of the electric car, but also that France, the Netherlands and Germany concentrate 70% of the charging points fast in Europe.
Timmermans’ grain of sand only makes things worse, aware that not all Europeans will reach 2025 with a fully electric car, he proposes that the owners of cars with combustion engine pay an additional tax for sections depending on the emissions of their cars. Something not only disconcerting, but also a danger, since the manufacturers would achieve their purpose of delaying the cessation of combustion taking into account that they would not be subject to such a tax. The aid packages, and a reduction in the price of the electric ones, will be the only solution possible to reach 2035 with a high number of electric cars.