The 11th hour deal looks to have saved the internal-combustion engine in the E.U.
to effectively ban from 2035 the sale of new cars and vans still equipped with gas or diesel engines appear to be thwarted thanks to objections of ministers from Germany and several other E.U. member states.that would allow vehicles with internal-combustion engines designed to run on carbon-neutral e-fuels to still be sold beyond the cutoff date.
Frans Timmermans, head of the European Commission and the person overseeing the E.U.'s climate policy,“We have found an agreement with Germany on the future use of e-fuels in cars,” he said in the tweet.An e-fuel, also referred to as synthetic fuel, is any fuel in which the carbon circle is completely neutral so the carbon utilized to produce the fuel is the same quantity as the carbon emitted from burning the fuel in an engine.
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