{"id":189689,"date":"2025-12-13T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189689\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:30:13","slug":"explainer-what-is-the-plan-for-evs-now-the-eu-has-dropped-its-targets-and-what-does-it-mean-for-irish-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189689\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: What is the plan for EVs now the EU has dropped its targets \u2013 and what does it mean for Irish drivers?"},"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\">Diesel and petrol cars were facing a ban in 2035, but a U-turn was pulled on the plan\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"China has significant control over the manufacturing of key components required in the making of EVs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7950c15a-c406-4619-8ba8-385d0798a070.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)\">China has significant control over the manufacturing of key components required in the making of EVs<\/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)\">Plans to ban the sale of diesel and petrol cars by 2035 were announced three years ago as part of the EU\u2019s plan to be net-zero by 2050.<\/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 would have meant that all cars coming on the market in 10 years\u2019 time would have needed to be zero CO2 emissions \u2013 but this stance has now been softened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diesel and petrol cars were facing a ban in 2035, but a U-turn was pulled on the plan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,15552],"class_list":["post-189689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-maeve-mctaggart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189689","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=189689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}