US EditionWhy EU’s 2035 Combustion Car Ban Faces Rising Pressure
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Is the EU's 2035 ICE ban pushing the market to drive "full speed into the wall”?
The head of Mercedes-Benz has warned the European Union’s 2035 ban on the sale of new CO2-emitting cars could do more harm than good. Mercedes-Benz has become the latest car maker to implore the European Union (EU) to reevaluate its current stance on the 2035 ban of the sale of new petrol and diesel cars. Weeks away from the reveal of its next electric car, the GLC SUV, the company’s CEO, Ola Källenius, has warned of the chaos that could ensue …
In an interview with Handelsblatt, Mercedes CEO Olla Källenius was very clear on the EU's plans.
In a recent ZDF summer interview, Bavarian Minister-President and CSU leader Markus Söder reiterated his call for an EU-wide repeal of the so-called "combustion engine ban" from 2035, which stipulates that no vehicles with climate-damaging exhaust emissions will be allowed to be registered from 2035 onward. Söder received much criticism for this, including from Lower Saxony's Minister-President Olaf Lies, who, in an interview with WirtschaftsWoc…
This is a secret for no one, the sale of thermal cars will be banned in Europe from 2035. A measure that has already been announced a few years earlier, and which is constantly making it known. And because of this, it faces numerous protests and criticisms of all kinds. From the motorists and consumers, of course, but also from the manufacturers. Many of them oppose this decision, while the electric car market stagnates. This is for example the …
When one of the most influential men in the European car industry almost shouts to the media that “we are running full speed into a wall”, you have to stop and listen to him. Ola Källenius, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Group and president of the prestigious European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), is no populist politician or alarmist. He is a pragmatic Swede who runs one of the most respected brands in the world. And that is why his lates…
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