The writing has been on the wall for 5+ years that government bodies would eventually legislate this, even for casual observers. If these auto manufacturers as industry insiders couldn’t plan ahead to handle this outcome, it sounds like they might deserve to be unseated.
I honestly have a deep respect for Europeans for the depth of their commitment to what they believe is right, which is so deep that they are essentially willing to commit suicide in order to remain relatively blameless in the climate change situation that will proceed forward regardless.
Currently EV charging in many places in Europe is a joke. If anyone was serious about a rapid change to EV every city would be an apocaliptic building site by now for all the required upgrades to the old electric infrastructure. This is not happening.
I agree that the EU and the world needs to move aggressively on clean energy (including nuclear), climate change etc.<p>But I really hate this tendency to overly micro-manage the economy.<p>Yes, gasoline cars pollute, but then the solution is to price a mitigation of that pollution into gasoline, even if than means it'll cost 20€/liter.<p>It's not to ban one particular category of devices that happens to use gasoline by some arbitrary date.<p>It's especially stupid because out of all the users of gasoline, cars are some of the "cleanest" due to emissions regulations.
Meanwhile in Greece.<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/torrential-rain-follows-summer-wildfires-greece-one-dead-2023-09-05/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/torrential-rain-follows...</a><p>I couldn't care less about BMW wining. They should start making tanks and APCs to sell to Ukraine and Eastern flank states if they're uncapable of building zero emission vehicles for civilian use.<p>40% exhibitors at the Munich motor show were Chinese companies, possibly showing off all electric models with chair heating that doesn't require a subscription.
Doesn't this mean that everyone who owns a gas car right now needs to by an EV by 2035? Not everyone can afford EVs - so how would this work? Also, EV charging infrastructure is way behind gas. I can fill up gasoline anywhere but there are far fewer EV stations. I applaud our switch to clean energy but this proposed law seems very aggressive.
*German automakers<p>Somehow non-German European car makers like Volvo have made great progress on their roadmaps to 100% electric by 2035.<p>Their most popular models are now no longer sold with 100% ICE, as an example.