"Merz's letter hardens the battle lines emerging between Germany's powerhouse car industry and those pleading with Brussels to stick to its flagship green policy, which is designed to help the EU meet its 2050 carbon-neutral target. We're sending the right signal to the commission with this letter, Merz said, adding that the German government wanted to protect the climate in a technology-neutral way. Merz has previously said he would do all he could to ensure the 2035 deadline was softened."
"Merz said he would ask for a series of exemptions in his letter, including the right to continue to produce plug-in hybrids, battery hybrids in which driving charges the battery and electric vehicles with highly efficient combustion engines as backup for plug-in hybrids to cope with long journeys. I will ask the commission, even after 2035, to continue to allow battery-electric vehicles that also have a combustion engine, he said."
Friedrich Merz will urge the EU to soften the 2035 cutoff date for the sale of combustion-engine cars and will send a letter to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen requesting that technological options remain open for carmakers. The planned 2035 ban would prohibit new petrol and diesel car sales as part of efforts to reach a 2050 carbon-neutral target. The letter seeks exemptions to allow continued production of plug-in hybrids, battery hybrids that recharge through driving, and battery-electric vehicles with combustion-engine backup for long journeys. The move underscores tensions between Germany's automotive industry and EU green policy enforcement, and the EU has fast-tracked a review to provide carmakers more certainty.
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