Six EU Countries Call for Abandoning 2035 Combustion Engine Ban
An electric vehicle charging unit on a street in Brussels.
Photographer: Ksenia Kuleshova/BloombergSix European Union leaders including Italy’s Giorgia Meloni asked the European Commission to propose softening the bloc’s vehicle emission rules to halt a de-facto ban on combustion engines planned by the middle of the next decade.
Prime ministers including Meloni and Poland’s Donald Tusk demanded that an upcoming revision of EU rules for new cars allow plug-in hybrids, range extenders and fuel-cell technology even after 2035, according to a letter to commission President Ursula von der Leyen seen by Bloomberg News on Friday.