Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Several EU countries will lift bans on the combustion engine

While a country like Sweden is adamant that the internal combustion engine should be banned in 2035, several other EU countries will have lifted the ban on the internal combustion engine.

Countries such as Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have clearly signaled that they are against the ban, which is planned to affect new combustion engines in 2035.

BMW is one of the car brands that has also clearly distanced itself from a ban. In fact, BMW's director, Oliver Zipse, believes that a ban will only make the EU more dependent on China.

And in Italy, absolutely no one is holding back when it comes to criticizing the EU's plans to ban certain cars.

“The challenge of the green transition must not mean that entire industrial sectors must be closed down,” the country's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, told the Reuters news agency back in September last year.

While a country like Sweden is adamant that the combustion engine should be banned by 2035, several other EU countries will have lifted the ban on the combustion engine. She calls the ban 'a self-destructive attitude towards both the environment and the automotive industry'. Previously, her energy minister has called on the EU to reconsider the ban.

Although several major companies – including Germany's Bosch – have also strongly protested against the ban, it is still set to become a reality, at least as it stands now. However, Germany has introduced the small loophole that the EU must allow combustion engines that can run on synthetic fuel.

And there seems to be no problem with that. Not even for the millions of cars with combustion engines that already exist.

The car group Stellantis (Opel, Peugeot, Citroën, Maserati, Chrysler, Jeep, etc.) has already established that up to 28 million of their cars can easily run on synthetic fuel.

Parts of the Volkswagen Group – specifically Porsche and Lamborghini – are also continuing to work with the artificial gasoline. So are Toyota and BMW. And Ferrari is even working on making an inverted V6 engine burn hydrogen. Read more about it here .

In Norway, which is not a member of the EU, there is no specific date set for banning new petrol and diesel cars. But even though electric car sales now account for 90 percent of the market, most Norwegians do not believe that petrol cars will be completely gone after 2025.

In fact, a new poll from NAF, which is Norwegians' answer to FDM, shows that 9 out of 10 believe that the government will have more than a hard time achieving the goal of eliminating the sale of cars with combustion engines.

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