Germany and the block of member countries that it leads in opposing the categorical ban on combustion engines from 2035 have managed to get the European Union to rectify. Finally, it will contemplate a future of mobility with thermal engines powered by carbon neutral synthetic fuels (Emissions are offset during the manufacturing process of the same). You bet like this for a open approach to different technological solutions that can be addressed in a simpler and more free way by vehicle companies.
The geopolitical body seems to have managed to get the most powerful nation in the territory over which it has power to lift the veto on a ecological regulations. It is a measure with an obvious ideological bias which could well end up destroying the automobile industry as we know it today. However, and despite the interests of foreign lobbies, the EU has given in to the demands of the Germans, because they are still its largest contributors.
At the middle of March, Actualidad Motor published an article titled "The world upside down: Germany defends combustion engines and Spain criticizes it". It explained the nonsense of a situation in which a leading country in the electrification of the mobile fleet wanted to protect one of its main economic assets, while ours, at the tail end of this transition process and with an automotive weight over GDP of 10%, branded it as incoherent and even unsupportive. The truth is that the Teutonic approach and that of six other countries was more conservative, but no less sustainable.
The compromise with the liberal partners of the German government grants, in a few words, that thermal cars can continue to be sold legally within 12 years. This will happen as long as they are fed by "laboratory" fuels capable of neutralizing carbon from the atmosphere, since environmental CO2 will be used to generate them. The European Commission thus manages to unblock an agreement that it considers very important, although the pollution problem is global and the Old Continent can hardly act on it.
However, negotiations are still open with other nations and the pact is not closed beyond Berlin. having become an infinite tug of war, now it is Rome that seems to have stood up, rejecting the advances made with Germany. Matteo Salvini, Italy's current transport minister, says that "the game is not over", consolidating his position in defense of companies in his country. Ensures that biofuels must also play a fundamental role on the future of the sector and that it will not approve any regulations if they are not taken into consideration. A meeting of energy holders in the EU will be held soon that will shed light on this issue.
Source: self made