European legislators have persuaded the EU’s 27 member states to support a proposal that virtually prohibits the sale of gas-powered vehicles and vans by 2035. They have reached an agreement to adopt the Commission’s revised reduction objectives for carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars and light trucks. The Commission’s plan, which the European parliament approved in June, aims to cut emissions from new cars in certain categories by 100 percent in 13 years. That would be impossible unless gas-powered vehicles were phased out and only zero-emission ones were sold.
