Is the ban on combustion engines not only wrong, but even illegal? According to many sources – including the Bild newspaper – a new legal opinion on the so-called CO₂ fleet regulation by Professor Martin Kment (Institute for Environmental Law, University of Augsburg) clearly says: YES!
The error lies in the EU’s current and underlying methodology for measuring CO₂ values, which has so far only been carried out at the exhaust pipe of a vehicle.
But since electric cars have no exhaust, the CO₂ rating for e-cars is of course always 0 – and not for combustion cars!
And according to Kment, this is precisely what is not permitted.
In his opinion, the EU’s CO₂ assessment should consider the entire CO₂ footprint.
In the case of electric cars, the costly production process and the “dirty” charging current, which is partly generated by gas and coal, would also play a role.
Both types of drive would then not be at 0 in the CO₂ assessment. In other words: either allow both or ban both!
It’s about reducing CO₂ and not simply giving ideological preference to one type of drive, right?
Either way, it’s good that combustion engines can then also be refueled easily and quickly with modern, alternative fuels such as eFuels and HVO with a significant reduction in CO₂!
The error lies in the EU’s current and underlying methodology for measuring CO₂ values, which has so far only been carried out at the exhaust pipe of a vehicle.
But since electric cars have no exhaust, the CO₂ rating for e-cars is of course always 0 – and not for combustion cars!
And according to Kment, this is precisely what is not permitted.
In his opinion, the EU’s CO₂ assessment should consider the entire CO₂ footprint.
In the case of electric cars, the costly production process and the “dirty” charging current, which is partly generated by gas and coal, would also play a role.
Both types of drive would then not be at 0 in the CO₂ assessment. In other words: either allow both or ban both!
It’s about reducing CO₂ and not simply giving ideological preference to one type of drive, right?
Either way, it’s good that combustion engines can then also be refueled easily and quickly with modern, alternative fuels such as eFuels and HVO with a significant reduction in CO₂!
