Employees of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Sindelfingen (Germany) emble the engine of the S-Cl, a high-end sedan launched in 2020 and which has not given up on thermal engines. THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP
Germany, Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic are resisting the end of the heat engine.
The European Union should definitively adopt at the beginning of March its legislation ratifying the end of the heat engine in 2035a project discussed for years, a key element of its global strategy of carbon neutrality in 2050. Alas, Germany’s blockage in extremis unveiled ten days ago derailed the process. What relaunch the sling within Europe and rekindle the determination of the defenders of the combustion engine.
On the initiative of the Czech Republic, a meeting brought together this Monday in Strasbourg the German, Italian and Polish Ministers of Transport. Other countries had been invited into the camp of skeptics to this extent. Officially, it was a question of discussing the Euro 7 anti-pollution standard aimed at reducing nitrogen oxide emissions by 35%, proposed by the Commission, which would be imposed on the automotive industry from 2025. , it was an opportunity to form a common front against the ban on thermal engines in 2035 for…
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