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The intent to ban vehicles powered by fossil fuels is attractive to governments as it offers a simpler compliance target, [9] compared with a carbon tax or phase-out of fossil fuels. [10] A BMW i3 being charged in Amsterdam. Electric cars had a world market share of around 5% in 2021. [11] [12]
The European Union will, in 2035, ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in its member states. Norway, which is not part of the EU, has an ambition for no new petrol or diesel cars to be sold ...
The European Union on Wednesday proposed an effective ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035, aiming to speed up the switch to zero-emission electric vehicles (EVs) as part of a ...
By comparison, the European Union plans to ban sales of new fossil-fuel cars by 2035, and the UK's current government wants to prohibit their sale in 2030. Petrol and diesel car sales are still ...
Problems with delivery thereof led to the European Commission–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine dispute. [citation needed] On 1 December 2021, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that EU nations should consider making COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory because too many people were refusing to get shots voluntarily. [66]
The high infection and mortality rates of the pandemic in countries in the Western Balkans, the Eastern Neighbourhood, and Central and Eastern Europe meant they faced deeper recessions. [13] [14] From 2019 to 2020, there was also a difference in how EU countries were adapting to new COVID-19 regulations, one of them being work from home. The ...
The European Union's proposed 2035 ban on fossil-fuel cars should be renegotiated to give hybrid models a greater role in the transition to zero-emission vehicles, Stellantis chief executive ...
While crude oil and natural gas are also being phased out in chemical processes (e.g. production of new building blocks for plastics) as the circular economy and biobased economy (e.g. bioplastics) are being developed [16] to reduce plastic pollution, the fossil fuel phase out specifically aims to end the burning of fossil fuels and the consequent production of greenhouse gases.