Transportation
Germany’s Lindner Wants More Combustion Engine Options Post-2035
EU officials in March of last year signed off on a deal that effectively ends the sale of most new combustion engines from 2035.
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German Finance Minister Christian Lindner is resurrecting the debate on the European Union’s decision to ban sales of new combustion engine cars in 2035, seeking more exceptions than the one granted for fuels made using renewable electricity and carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere.
“We should go further and generally focus on technological openness,” Lindner told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper. “Synthetic liquid fuels and biofuels are also a way to be climate-friendly.”