This week, the US government relaxed a number of requirements that would otherwise make it very difficult to build cars with combustion engines.
In Europe, more and more car manufacturers are backing away from the goal of only building electric cars within the next few years.
This week alone, Bentley has backtracked on a goal to build only electric cars by 2030. And back in February, Mercedes said something similar. Read more about it here.
Now the US government is stepping in by relaxing the requirements that the country's car industry must meet towards the next decade.
Specifically, the USA has relaxed the requirements for the car factories' overall fuel economy capability.
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Reuters writes that.
Right now it is the case that the car brands have to include pure electric cars when they calculate how far their cars can go overall on a liter of fuel. Or per gallon as the Americans say (it's 3.78 liters, ed.)
But electric cars' share of fuel economy, which must gradually get better and better, also gets smaller and smaller over the years.
For this week, the government in the United States would lower the allowed contribution of electric cars to the overall fuel economy by 75 percent. But now President Joe Biden says 65 percent.
On the other side of the Atlantic, i.e. here in Europe, the European Parliament decided last year to ban all new petrol and diesel cars that cannot run on synthetic fuel.
Since then, however, the debate about the ban has not wanted to subside. And back in January, the European People's Party Group (EPP), which is the largest and oldest grouping of parties in the European Parliament, said that they will roll back the ban completely after the EU elections this summer.
This month, German Mahle, one of the world's largest sub-suppliers in the automotive industry, has said that the internal combustion engine needs to be here. Also after 2035.
The same attitude can be found at another of the car industry's giants – namely Bosch. On the other hand, the car brand Audi has no doubt that the future belongs to the electric car alone. Read more about it here.
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