Petrol and diesel cars, the final vote on the stop in Europe has been postponed

Presses to block it European stop to the sale of new diesel and petrol vehicles by 2035 they worked. The vote on the measure by the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) should have been a mere formality, after the agreement reached between the Council of the Union and the European Parliament, but the opposite effort of Italy, Germany, Poland and Bulgaria forced the Committee to postpone the vote.

“Coreper has decided to postpone the final vote on stopping the sale of diesel and petrol vehicles in 2035, moving the meeting scheduled for March 7, 2023 to an upcoming committee meeting. Coreper will address this issue in due course”, wrote about Twitter Daniel Holmberg, Swedish spokesman for Coreper.

In Italy, the decision was welcomed with satisfaction by the Federmotorisation, which brings together entrepreneurs active in the sale of vehicles and spare parts. President Simonpaolo Buongiardino addressed “a applause” to the Minister of Infrastructure Matthew SalviniThat “led our representation” And “to the action of the Region Lombardy” for contributing to “create a group” of European countries “against the stop”.

The European stop

The prohibition, conceived as a transition in 15 years of companies to the production of electric vehicles, proposes a ban on the sale of new combustion vehicles on the internal market from 2035. a measure designed to reduce CO emissions by 100%.₂ of the transport sectorto counter the climate-changing emissions of traditional vehicles.

However, the consortium made up of vehicle-producing countries and those with the highest number of cars on the road he began to raise opposition to the project already approved by Parliament in the weeks preceding the final vote.

Some of these countries, such as Italy, had already asked to postpone the stop to 2040while others such as Germany, the world leader in the automotive industry, have lobbied to be able to exclude fuel-powered vehicles from the ban synthetic fuelsalso known as e-fuels. A technology criticized by environmental organizations, for their environmental impact of the supply chain and for their production of emissions from combustion.