{"id":635387,"date":"2025-12-16T05:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/635387\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:08:23","slug":"commission-set-to-severely-weaken-2035-combustion-engine-ban-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/635387\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission set to severely weaken 2035 combustion engine ban \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

New details are emerging, however, about which powertrains will be allowed after 2035. In the current plan, range extenders \u2014 small combustion engines that give batteries more range \u2014 will count for a greater emissions reduction than plug-in hybrids, which have both a combustion engine and an electric motor.<\/p>\n

Essentially, the scheme would give automakers more emissions credits for range extenders than plug-in hybrids because they emit less CO2 than hybrids, two officials said.<\/p>\n

The 2035 reform is part of a broader automotive package being put forward by the Commission on Tuesday that will include a new regulation on greening corporate fleets \u2014 vehicles owned or leased by companies for business purposes \u2014 and an automotive omnibus that was obtained by POLITICO<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"\"Essentially, the scheme would give automakers more emissions credits for range extenders than plug-in hybrids because they emit less CO2 than hybrids, two officials said. | Lorenzo Di Cola | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Automakers will be allowed to pool for the 2035 legislation, meaning that a brand that doesn’t meet the 90 percent target can buy credits from an automaker that over-delivers.<\/p>\n

The pooling scheme is a lucrative business<\/a> for all-electric manufacturers like Tesla.<\/p>\n

A separate initiative will focus on boosting small electric vehicles \u2014 a demand put forward by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in her State of the Union address in September. Companies that produce the small cars would get a coefficient of 1.3 in the target calculations, meaning that if a carmaker sold 10 of the small EVs they would get the emissions credit of 13 cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New details are emerging, however, about which powertrains will be allowed after 2035. In the current plan, range…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[15551,346,141211,1305,2000,299,5187,36,1824,30995,70432,104,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-635387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-alternative-fuels","9":"tag-cars","10":"tag-competition-and-industrial-policy","11":"tag-electric-vehicles","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-manfred-weber","18":"tag-road-transport-emissions","19":"tag-spain","20":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115727519936307963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}