{"id":18146,"date":"2026-06-04T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/2026\/06\/04\/largest-political-group-in-the-european-parliament-shakes-up-the-ban-on-combustion-engines\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:00:30","slug":"largest-political-group-in-the-european-parliament-shakes-up-the-ban-on-combustion-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/2026\/06\/04\/largest-political-group-in-the-european-parliament-shakes-up-the-ban-on-combustion-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest political group in the European Parliament shakes up the ban on combustion engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is the EU ban on combustion engines from 2035 actually still the right thing to do?<\/strong><br \/>\nOf course: NO &#8211; and unfortunately it never was in its current form!<br \/>\nAccording to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-online.de\/mobilitaet\/aktuelles\/id_101251240\/verbrenner-autos-eu-fraktion-will-das-verbrenner-aus-aufweichen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">t-online<\/a>, this is precisely why the European People&#8217;s Party (EPP), the largest political group in the European Parliament, is now going on the offensive against the existing law with a &#8220;45-point plan&#8221;.<br \/>\nNumerous relaxations are on the table &#8211; far beyond the German position!<br \/>\nAbove all, there is to be a new vehicle class for combustion engines that run exclusively on climate-neutral fuels.<br \/>\nt-online states:<br \/>\n&#8220;These cars are to be given the same regulatory status as electric cars. As the EPP defines the rules for these fuels very broadly, significantly more combustion models could be approved even after 2035.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis would finally be a big step back to common sense and towards a future that is open to technology! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the EU ban on combustion engines from 2035 actually still the right thing to do? Of course: NO &#8211; and unfortunately it never was in its current form! According to t-online, this is precisely why the European People&#8217;s Party (EPP), the largest political group in the European Parliament, is now going on the offensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_efuels_review_status":"","_efuels_reject_reason":"","_efuels_reject_code":"","_efuels_rejected_by":0,"_efuels_rejected_at":"","_efuels_approved_by":0,"_efuels_approved_at":"","_efuels_relevanz_score":0,"_efuels_quelle":"","_efuels_notion_id":"","_efuels_anweisungen":"","_efuels_bild_modus":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-fuels-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}