Europe’s EV push nearly faltered over fringe fuels that are years away
The e-fuels Germany fought for will be expensive and scarce for the foreseeable futureelectric vehicles
almost went awry because of a prohibitively expensive technology that’s virtually unavailable, but that’s exactly what happened. For several weeks last month, Germany refused to back the European Union’s effective ban of new combustion-engine cars from 2035, demanding that Brussels protect vehicles running on . Given the auto industry employs around 786,000 people in Germany, it’s understandable that Berlin would try to protect jobs threatened by the phasing out of engines. Still, the fight for e-fuels made little sense.
Analysts doubt that the synthetic fuels will ever make a meaningful contribution to the industry achieving carbon neutrality. Only 2% of the EU car fleet can fully run on e-fuels in 2035, the lobby group Transport & Environment
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