Stop petrol and diesel cars in Europe from 2035: it’s official

The stop to the sale of petrol and diesel cars has a date officially proposed by the European Commission: 2035. And not only that, because for that term, according to the proposal of the EU executive, all cars with CO2 emissions will have to leave the market. exhaust, therefore also including hybrids and plug-in hybrids. The measure will also affect light commercial vehicles.

The proposal arrived today through “Fit for 55”, the climate reform package designed to reduce CO2 emissions by 55% compared to 1990 levels by 2030, always with an eye to the total climate neutrality of the Old Continent, which will instead be reached in 2050, as the European Green Deal wants. In practice, in 14 years, they will be alone in dealers electric cars it’s at hydrogen.

The European roadmap

More specifically, the EU Commission has prepared a roadmap to ensure that “emissions from new cars will decrease by 55% starting from 2030 and 100% starting from 2035 compared to 2021 levels”. This means that “all new cars registered from 2035 will be zero emissions”.

In short, it is not written explicitly, but the text wants to give thefarewell to the sale of petrol and diesel cars, LPG, methane and also all hybrids (mild hybrid, full hybrid and plug-in hybrid). From the middle of the next decade, the new cars could only be electric or hydrogen.

However, the banning of new registrations for cars with combustion engines does not mean that circulation will also be prohibited. That, at least at this stage, will remain an issue to be managed within the states.

More balusters

To facilitate the transition to zero emissions, the Commission will require Member States, through the update of the Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Directive (Dafi), “to increase charging capacity in line with sales of zero-emission cars and to install charging points and refueling at regular intervals on the main motorways: every 60 km for electric recharging and every 150 km for hydrogen refueling ”.

What happens now

Now a phase of lengthy negotiations will begin with the European Parliament and the EU Council. The possibility that the proposal gets the definitive go-ahead are however quite high, given the strong incidence of greens in the European Parliament.

In any case, the proposal comes at a time when several car manufacturers are launching their electrification strategies, many of which have already set their own date to finish the production of vehicles with internal combustion engines.