Cowards, they had plenty of time to adapt and prepare themselves.
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With this change they would only harm the companies that did in fact prepare.
Yay!
Fuck the planet! I only care about profits that don't go to me!
It this point I'm not sure what will happen. They might announce something which actually changes nothing (there never was a ban after all) or could throw the automotive industry into an even greater chaos than they already are.
I would not be surprised, if this was just meant to get subsidies for EVs. The none Chinese competition outside the EU is mostly pretty weak. Hyundai is doing well, but the Japanese do not have good EVs and the Americans only Tesla. In China the EV market is a blood bath. The companies surviving that will be strong, but who cares if the competition is called BYD or Toyota.
Oh and most of the chaos is getting rid of combustion engine related stuff. It seems stupid to me to close those factories now, when you expect the market to be open until 2040.
Too late, we shifted to 100% electric last week. ๐
We bought the first electric we tried, because it's such an amazing drive, we didn't feel a need to look any further. ๐
What did you buy and which member state, if you feel comfortable telling us?
The article is from Saturday, but it seems like none of the large EU news source have managed to confirm it with their own sources.
Senior industry leaders have confirmed that Brussels will revise its 2035 ban on the sale of cars powered by internal combustion engines, although the timing of the announcement is yet to be confirmed.
โI have it on good authority that the EU is going to add five years on to the current 2035 to make the date 2040, Which would mean that from January 1, 2040, all new vehicles would need to be pure electric,โ said Tim Tozer, UK chairman of the insurer and roadside-assistance firm Allianz Partners, and former country head of Vauxhall, Mazda and Mitsubishi.
So the only thing that is confirmed is that there will be a revision.
The rest is "senior industry leaders" spreading rumor that suits them.
That said, the scenario unfortunately isn't unrealistic with Germany going the way it's going right now, and the EU-wide ongoing USA bootlicking.