{"id":47285,"date":"2025-09-30T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/47285\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:09:06","slug":"2035-cars-law-at-eu-summit-merz-to-push-for-hybrids-which-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/47285\/","title":{"rendered":"2035 cars law at EU summit: Merz to push for hybrids which can\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

German Chancellor Friederich Merz has said<\/a> he will use this Wednesday\u2019s summit of EU leaders to campaign against the bloc\u2019s 2035 phase-out of combustion engine car sales. But the \u2018extended range\u2019 electric vehicles (EREVs) that Chancellor Merz wants to be sold after 2035 can emit as much carbon dioxide as petrol SUVs when not charged, according to analysis by green group T&E.<\/p>\n

EREVs vs petrol<\/p>\n

Unlike plug-in hybrid vehicles, which switch between a battery and an engine to power the wheels, EREVs only use a battery to power the wheels while an engine or a plug charges the battery. When the battery is depleted, an EREV consumes 6.7 litres of petrol per 100km, on average, in engine mode, according to the latest data from China which leads on the technology. That is similar to a plug-in hybrid (7 litres\/100km in engine mode) and worse than some petrol SUVs such as the popular Volkswagen Tiguan (6 litres\/100km). <\/p>\n

Extended range vehicles have an average electric range of 184km, after which they run on the engine. As they typically have large fuel tanks which allow for 900km of travel in engine mode, drivers are not incentivised to plug in frequently and drive on the battery. The data is taken from China\u2019s official fuel consumption values for 23 EREV models \u2013 their real-world consumption is likely to be higher.<\/p>\n

China dominates<\/p>\n

Extended range EVs have been on sale in China for several years, but only two models \u2013 the Mazda MX-30 and Leapmotor\u2019s C10 REEV \u2013 are for sale in Europe. While BMW is considering offering an EREV version of its iX5 SUV, the technology is dominated by Chinese producers.<\/p>\n

Lucien Mathieu, cars director at T&E, said: \u201cMerz is pushing a technology that European carmakers have little expertise in and that China would immediately dominate. When the battery is depleted, extended range EVs pollute as much as petrol SUVs. Their large fuel tanks provide little incentive for drivers to charge. Technology neutrality must not be used as a trojan horse for continuing to sell polluting powertrains.\u201d<\/p>\n

While cars are not officially on the agenda for the informal summit<\/a> in Copenhagen, Chancellor Merz will also ask leaders to allow the sale of plug-in hybrids after 2035. That is despite CO2 emissions from PHEV cars being almost five times<\/a>, on average, what official tests suggest. With Chinese manufacturers already capturing a record share<\/a> of the European hybrid market, T&E argues that PHEVs are a dead-end technology for Europe\u2019s automakers<\/p>\n

Europe aims to stop selling new combustion engine cars by 2035 so that the last polluting vehicles are off the road by 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friederich Merz has said he will use this Wednesday\u2019s summit of EU leaders to campaign against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37009,114,37010,1657,21134,37011,85,46,37007,37008,33111,28636,125],"class_list":["post-47285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-extended","tag-business","tag-chancellor","tag-china","tag-dominates","tag-german","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-leaders","tag-loophole","tag-range","tag-sell","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}