2023-03-29 07:00:00 The coalition committee met for two and a half days, and the results are now in. The 16-page paper with the unwieldy title “Modernization package for climate protection and planning acceleration” does give priority to rail, but road projects are also to be accelerated. The government wants to concentrate primarily on repairs; the … Read more
It’s rustling in the paper forest: Now the EU Parliament has also decided to “stop combustion engines”. A new situation does not justify this, but the EU is still a long way from correcting earlier decisions. Prof. Thomas Koch from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) classifies the resolution. Professor Koch, after the Commission, the … Read more
After the vote in the EU Parliament, supporters made little effort to hide their triumph over the so-called “combustion ban”. Together, across factions and countries, the battery-electric passenger car was the only way out of the climate crisis. But now there is open resistance in Germany, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, among associations and manufacturers. A shitstorm … Read more
Cheers to Brussels! It’s finally done: We’re becoming a hydrogen economy, a completely decarbonized one. And the hydrogen will also be green, because it can only be obtained from excess electricity from photovoltaics, wind and hydropower. The surplus should be so large that it sustainably feeds our future prosperity. Not only the steel industry, but … Read more
Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) has threatened the EU Commission in Brussels with a veto on the end of cars with combustion engines planned for the European Union from 2035. The operation of passenger cars with synthetic fuels – so-called e-fuels – must also be possible after 2035, Wissing told the editors of the … Read more
The EU Commission is submitting the proposal to continue to allow combustion engines if they are operated with e-fuels Vienna (OTS) – “As a people’s party, we are finally seeing movement on the part of the EU Commission. The People’s Party rightly judged the originally planned ban on new registrations of combustion engines to be … Read more
New tones from Wolfsburg: Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume is committed to a technology-neutral approach – which means that, depending on the segment and customer demand, not only electric drives but also other concepts are possible. In an interview with the trade magazine “Auto, Motor und Sport”, Blume, who also heads the Porsche brand, commented on … Read more
He speaks for 21 million members – and now he is clearly in favor of the introduction of climate-neutral synthetic fuels: In extensive tests, the ADAC has found that climate-friendly fuel not only works without problems in a wide variety of vehicles with combustion engines, but also that other by no means worsen pollutant emissions. … Read more