{"id":187628,"date":"2025-12-12T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187628\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:47:09","slug":"as-much-use-as-giving-slippers-to-an-elephant-irish-politicians-react-to-eus-backtrack-on-100pc-electric-car-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187628\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018As much use as giving slippers to an elephant\u2019 \u2013 Irish politicians react to EU\u2019s backtrack on 100pc electric car target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Objectives to make a third of cars on the road electric by 2030 and all sales electric by 2035 have been dropped by the EU\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A 90pc\u00a0reduction in CO2 emissions will now be mandatory for car manufacturers from 2035, according to MEP Manfred Weber. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/309dc8d8-593f-4fd9-a1cd-033ca5df84ba.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A 90pc\u00a0reduction in CO2 emissions will now be mandatory for car manufacturers from 2035, according to MEP Manfred Weber. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Laws to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2035 are to be dropped, in a major U-turn by the EU on what was a key part of its green agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It means the Irish Government will be under no obligation to meet its objective of ensuring a third of the total car fleet is electric by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Objectives to make a third of cars on the road electric by 2030 and all sales electric by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,25081],"class_list":["post-187628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mary-regan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}