Italy wants to ask the EU for a five-year delay for the end of the heat engine
A car dealership in Turin (illustrative image).
AFP - MARCO BERTORELLO
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Italy, supported by four other countries, wants a period of 5 years at the end of the heat engine.
Rome is proposing to postpone until 2040 the end of the sale of thermal engine cars in the EU, compared to 2035 in the Brussels proposal currently being discussed by member states.
Italy is supported by Bulgaria, Portugal, Romania and Slovakia.
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This is not going to help the affairs of Brussels, whose ambitions for the vast plan for the climate, are already undermined by the rise in energy prices and the shortage of raw materials.
The proposal to reduce the CO2 emissions of new cars to zero within the union from 2035 is today contested, this leads
de facto to
the cessation of sales of petrol and diesel vehicles in favor of 100% electric engines .
Five countries do not want this timetable, Italy in the lead, which in a text, proposes to postpone the end of thermal cars to 2040, and to impose a 90% reduction in emissions for sales of new cars in 2035.
Italy says it wants to avoid "
disproportionate and unnecessary costs for the automotive sector and for consumers
" in particular due to the development of charging infrastructure and battery production which requires time and money.
Germany, where the automobile also represents a significant economic weight, also defends easing, in particular to continue to sell cars with combustion engines running on e-fuels made from carbon-free electricity.
►Also read: MEPs vote for the end of thermal engine cars in 2035
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