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All BMW are doing is switching ICE production from Munich to Austria, the UK & China, they haven’t announced that they will no longer be producing ICE vehicles at any date in the future, in fact BMW remain committed to ICE.

The Europeans will continue to allow the manufacturing of ICE vehicles past 2035 provided they can run on synthetic/carbon neutral fuels. The internal combustion engine will still be around for a long time.

I don’t have anything against EV’s but they just aren’t for me, & yes I’ve driven a couple, a Tesla & the bosses wife’s Mustang thing & yes they’re quick but I found them soulless & as for a performance EV you’ll always be trading performance for range if you’re doing any kind of distance with it.

This Munich shit is just Clik Bait


Europe steps back from 2035 ICE ban
2023-03-28 BILL VISNIC
A compromise in the EU’s high-stakes EV mandate throws automakers an internal-combustion lifeline.
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In a surprising move that paves the way for the European Union’s adoption of a mandate to eliminate vehicle CO2 emissions, on March 25 the EU reached an agreement with Germany to step back from a complete ban of combustion-engine vehicles starting in 2035. The EU agreed to permit sales and registration of internal-combustion engine (ICE) models after the 2035 deadline — provided those vehicles operate only on carbon-neutral fuels, often generically referred to as ‘e-fuels.’

With a significant portion of its economy related to the historically ICE-based automotive industry, Germany had resisted the EU’s total ban of ICE, although its Parliament’s Green Party supported the forced sunsetting of ICE passenger vehicles. Reuters reported German Transport Minister Volker Wissing as tweeting, “We secure opportunities for Europe by preserving important options for climate-neutral and affordable mobility.” In another Twitter post, Wissing reportedly added, “Vehicles with internal combustion engines can still be newly registered after 2035 if they fill up exclusively with CO2-neutral fuels.”

The e-fuels compromise also has implications for the pending Euro 7 vehicle-emissions regulations expected to come into effect by 2025 and that affect both passenger and commercial vehicles. Reuters reported Frans Timmermans, European Commission Vice President in charge of the European Green Deal, as saying that after the deal with Germany was reached, “we will work now on getting the CO2 standards for cars regulation adopted as soon as possible.” Italy and other EU entities also had supported an approach that provided for alternatives to EVs.

Critics of the compromise said the arrangement undermines environmental efforts in general and has potential to harm EU initiatives in other areas. "This rotten compromise undermines climate protection in transport, and it harms Europe," the German news agency dpa reported Greenpeace mobility expert Benjamin Stephan as saying in Berlin on March 25.

Zero-emissions standard remains unchanged
Wire reports said that the deal between the EU and Germany means that the October 2022 agreement of EU member states and the European Parliament that ostensibly mandated EVs will be adopted. German approval of the regulation means that other EU members opposing the ICE ban would not be able to coalesce a sufficient number of votes to veto the legislation. The EU next must create language on the provision for e-fuels in ICE vehicles to satisfy the zero-emissions stipulation.

At present, only a handful of pilot-manufacturing efforts are producing e-fuels, but proponents say that there will be larger-scale production long before the EU’s 2035 requirement for the fuel that will allow ICE vehicles to continue for sale in Europe. It remains to be seen if other entities that have banned or are seeking to ban ICE vehicles — such as several European cities and the state of California — will consider exemptions for e-fueled ICE vehicles.

Germany's automaker association, the VDA, stressed that it supported options for how CO2 neutrality is achieved by passenger vehicles. But the VDA conceded that production of carbon-neutral fuels needs to advance. "Now we have to enable e-fuel output at scale and at competitive prices,” Reuters quoted the VDA as saying, “which can only happen with large range of strategic decisions. Brussels and Berlin need a maximum of stable energy partnerships in the many countries that have excellent conditions to produce e-fuels."