Auto CEOs Aren’t Telling the Whole Story About Phasing Out Combustion Cars

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Last week, BMW CEO Oliver Zipse called for the European Union to scrap its plan to phase-out combustion vehicle sales by 2035, calling the target “no longer realistic.” Automakers are becoming increasingly vocal on this topic as the timelines get nearer, and it all highlights a difficult point: nobody really knows how these targets will play out.