“We are doing a revision as part of a wider package for the automotive sector that respects principles neutrality technology”. Words spoken by the EU Transport Commissioner, Apostolos Tzitzikostaswhich confirms the desire Commission to open up to the demands of the automotive world, first abandoning the “electric only” policy, which created many problems from a strategic and industrial point of view. So, in December, we will see the start of the line revision decarbonization from the automotive sector regulation about CO2 emissions e technology allowed to achieve predetermined targets.
The circled date on the calendar is the date December 10the day the European Manufacturers Association (ACEA) hopes Brussels can start the process leading to removing the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035, by recognizing the existence of marketing hybrid rechargeable, model with range expansion (i.e. models with electric traction but equipped with a combustion engine that functions as a current generator to recharge the battery) and cars with hydrogen.
Automakers are also asking incentive structural to support market demand, especially for electric cars and lower purchasing power. But what is also at stake is the definition of what will happen norm which will limit the categories “E-Car“, a small car, with a low environmental impact and similar to Japanese kei cars.
We will also discuss synthetic fuelpromoted by Germany, and from biofuelshighly requested by Italy and the automotive supply chain: there are thirty automotive associations, including the Italian association Anfia And Nowho signed a joint declaration to ask public institutions to include these fuels in CO2 emissions laws. In this case, for the association, renewable fuels will be able to “play an indispensable role in achieving climate goals”.
That association they ask, first of all, that the vehicle is powered only by renewable fuel recognized “as zero-emission vehicles”, such as electric vehicles; and that a “unified legal definition of renewable fuels” be introduced, in line with the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED). Finally, the signatory associations invited European Commission “to quickly and formally integrate renewable fuels into the law on reducing CO2 emissions from light vehicles in connection with the next revision. Only in this way will Europe be able to achieve its climate goals with efficiency, economic sustainability and social responsibility”.
