News Digest Item
16 Aug 2017

“EU ‘increasingly likely’ to implement electric car quota, despite denials”

Climate Home

Despite public denials, the European Commission is considering implementing an e-car quota to be achieved by automakers by 2030, writes Arthur Nelson for Climate Home. “It is looking increasingly likely that [the Commission] will come forward with a proposal of that sort for 2025 and 2030, probably including plug-in hybrids”, a source told Climate Home. The issue is fraught with problems, especially in Germany, where carmakers remain a “powerful political force”, writes Nelson.

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For background, read the 淨 factsheet The debate over an end to combustion engines in Germany and the 淨 dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.

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