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The German car industry has criticised California's decision to ban sales of new conventional cars from 2035. Car industry association VDA said it supported the EU's plans to become climate-neutral by 2050, but called the ban inappropriate, saying governments should not prescribe technologies for achieving climate neutrality. "Such a ban does not automatically lead to more climate protection. What is decisive is that the energy sources are made climate-neutral. This applies to electricity as well as to hydrogen or alternative fuels," VDA president Hildegard M眉ller told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

California governor Gavin Newsom announced this week that his state will ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel vehicles, effective in 2035. Last week, the European Union signalled it would tighten its emission targets. China is also heavily pushing electric mobility. 鈥淓urope and China have woken up to the fact that [the combustion engine] is dead,鈥� Arndt Ellinghorst, automotive analyst at Bernstein Research, the Wall Street Journal. 鈥淣ow, it looks like the U.S. is waking up.鈥�

Commentators, as well as mobility and industry experts, said California's decision will have deep repercussions on Germany's iconic car industry. "No carmaker will be left untouched if a market of this size renounces combustion engines," Michael Bauchm眉ller in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. "Other states will follow California's example, and other carmakers Tesla's. In Germany, on the other hand, politics and industry are clinging to the combustion engine as if there were no tomorrow. By doing so, they are causing damage to Germany as a business location that future generations will have to bear," he wrote. California's decision could be a gamechanger, Andreas Hochfeld, head of clean mobility think tank Agora Verkehrswende, on Twitter. He added the ban "will hugely impact discussion on similar rules" in the framework of the EU's Green Deal, adding that Germany will have to watch out. Green MP Cem 脰zdemir, who chairs the parliament's transport committee, the Tagesspiegel Germany urgently needed a transport policy that provides orientation: "In other words, one that says that the age of fossil fuels is really coming to an end and then also looks at how we can make the transformation of the important automotive industry a success for employees and the climate."