Will the sale of new combustion engine vehicles really be banned in 2035? “Today, no decision has been taken yet,” European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Industry, Thierry Breton, responded on BFMTV-RMC on Monday morning. Several European countries, refractory to the ban in 2035, meet this Monday in Strasbourg. Last week, Germany blocked the vote of member states that were to ratify the decision by refusing to give the green light.
“Today no decision has yet been made. I say this to the builders: wait until democracy has finished its path to be able to make decisions,” declared Thierry Breton.
“Keep Both” Engines
“Keep for the moment both”, the thermal engine and the electric motor, “until the decision is signed”, continued the European commissioner addressing the car manufacturers. The decision will be made “in the coming weeks”, but “for the parliamentary process to finish” and “do not anticipate what democracy will do.” Manufacturers “can’t say I didn’t tell them, every single one of them,” replied Thierry Breton.
“We are working on 2035” and “we will get there”, because what “is being discussed today” is “to know whether or not we are going to integrate heat engines with synthetic fuel”, according to Thierry Breton.
Africa, India, Latin America
In addition, “if we reach the end of heat engines in 2035”, “this does not mean the end of heat engines on the planet”, advanced the European commissioner, evoking “common sense”. “We are 440 million inhabitants” in the European Union “on a planet with suddenly 9 billion inhabitants”, and all the countries “are not going to be electric at the same time, whether in Africa, in South America, in India “, estimated Thierry Breton.
Source: BFM TV
