EU to relent on combustion engines ban after auto industry pressure

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : The move, which will need approval by EU governments and the European Parliament, would be the EU's most significant climb-down from its green policies of the past five years.
58% : William Todts, executive director of clean transport advocacy group T&E, said the EU was playing for time while China was racing ahead.
50% : However, the electric vehicle industry says this will undermine investment and result in the EU yielding even more ground to China in the shift to EVs.
50% : The EU executive is also likely to propose a new regulatory category for small EVs that would incur lower taxes and earn extra credits towards meeting CO2 targets.
46% : The European Commission is set to backtrack on the EU's ban on new combustion-engine cars from 2035 by allowing up to 10 per cent of non-electric vehicles after intense pressure from Germany, Italy and Europe's auto sector.
42% : The EU executive appears to have yielded to the call from carmakers to be allowed to keep selling plug-in hybrids and range extenders with CO2-neutral biofuel or synthetic fuel as they struggle to compete against Tesla and Chinese electric vehicles.

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