No sales ban for combustion cars

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Suter had submitted her initiative in response to a decision by the EU Parliament, which decided to ban cars with internal combustion engines from 2035. The EU countries still have to agree to this decision.

A clear exit date for Switzerland would also provide planning certainty for car sellers and the car supply industry in Switzerland, Suter argued. To achieve the climate goals, it is crucial that CO2 emissions in the transport sector are reduced quickly.

If there is a ban on internal combustion engines in the EU from 2035, there is a risk that cars from the EU area that run on petrol or diesel will end up in Switzerland from this year. The spokeswoman for the minority of the preliminary advisory committee, Katja Christ (GLP/BS), pointed this out.

However, a majority of the Council followed the arguments of the majority of the National Council’s Committee on Transport and Telecommunications. Your spokesperson Olivier Feller (FDP/VD) said on Wednesday that there was a ban on non-CO2 neutral vehicles in the EU. A ban on internal combustion engines is not quite the same thing.

The aim is to use synthetic fuels in traffic. It is therefore possible to have CO2-neutral combustion engines. With the National Council’s no, the initiative is off the table. Existing petrol and diesel cars would not have been affected by the ban. The National Council voted no by 106 votes to 83 with one abstention.

Negotiators from the European Parliament and EU countries agreed in October that from 2035 only new cars that do not emit greenhouse gases while driving may be sold in the EU.

However, the vote in the EU member states on the planned end for new combustion engine cars from 2035 was recently postponed due to additional demands from Germany. Germany’s Transport Minister Volker Wissing said Germany could not agree to a blanket ban on internal combustion engines at this time.

Wissing justified Germany’s opposition by saying that the European Commission had not yet tabled a proposal on how only vehicles running on climate-neutral fuels such as e-fuels could be approved after 2035.

Passing the law requires the approval of 15 of the 27 member states, which together must make up at least 65 percent of the EU’s total population. In addition to Germany, countries such as Italy, Poland and Bulgaria recently also refused to agree to the plans. (SDA)

Source:Blick