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EU plan to ban sales of gas, diesel vehicles by 2035 “no longer realistic,” warns BMW
If the ban is allowed to persist, the European auto industry will see a "massive shrinking" as automakers will have nothing left to sell that anyone with practicality, longevity and economy in mind will ever want to buy for their families.
Even with heavy government subsidies, i.e., taxpayers being forced to foot the bill for their very existence, EVs are wildly unpopular, not to mention the fact that many such subsidies are coming to an end. Add to that the fact that communist China is flooding the European auto market with its own cheap knockoffs and Europe's auto industry is in serious trouble.
Last year, EU member states approved a new emissions regulation that prohibits the sale of "carbon dioxide-emitting cars and vans in 2035," according to OilPrice.com. The rule stipulates a 55 percent emissions reduction requirement for cars and a 50 percent emissions reduction requirement for vans from 2030 to 2034 compared to 2021 levels. From 2035 and onward, all new cars and vans sold in Europe will have to produce zero CO2 emissions.
(Related: Did you know that all new cars in Europe must now automatically reduce engine power, and thus vehicle speed, whenever a driver is clocked as speeding?)
No more European auto industry after 2035?
The plan is to have the European Commission assess in 2026 the progress being made on the regulation. At that time, the Commission will have to decide whether or not the 2035 targets make sense or whether they need to be reviewed and retooled.
At the recent Paris Automotive Summit, BMW CEO Oliver Zipse warned that the ban "could also threaten the European automotive industry in its heart," adding that the current regulations will "with today's assumptions lead to a massive shrinking of the industry as a whole."
EVs sales across Europe so far in 2024 are minimal. Even in Germany where Berlin funneled heavy subsidies into the industry – subsidies that ended at the end of 2023, by the way – there is very little demand for new EVs.
The situation is so dire that last month the European Automotive Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) called for urgent action to reverse the gas and diesel ban by 2035, citing exceptionally low demand for new EVs.
The ACEA is calling on all EU institutions involved "to come forward with urgent relief measures before new CO2 targets for cars and vans come into effect in 2025," adding that European automakers "are playing our part in this transition, but unfortunately, the other necessary elements for this systemic shift are not in place."
In a statement, EU tyrants explained how all these forced changes are necessary to ensure that Europe becomes "climate neutral" by the target date.
"The regulation contains a reference to e-fuels, whereby following a consultation with stakeholders, the Commission will make a proposal for registering vehicles running exclusively on CO2-neutral fuels, after 2035, in conformity with EU law, outside the scope of the fleet standards, and in conformity with the EU's climate neutrality objective," the globalist body said.
As for the upcoming review, the Council of the EU said that it "will take into account technological developments, including with regard to plug-in hybrid technologies and the importance of a viable and socially equitable transition towards zero emissions."
More related news about the wild climate insanity that is driving all this forced EV tyranny and deindustrialization can be found at Climate.news.
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