{"id":8790,"date":"2024-05-15T06:36:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T06:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/2024\/05\/15\/column-is-the-combustion-engine-phase-out-a-serious-mistake\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T06:36:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T06:36:26","slug":"column-is-the-combustion-engine-phase-out-a-serious-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/2024\/05\/15\/column-is-the-combustion-engine-phase-out-a-serious-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Column: Is the combustion engine phase-out a serious mistake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail-\">\n<div class=\"gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj\">The <span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">European elections<\/span> are coming up soon and more and more experts and voters are asking themselves:<\/p>\n<p>Is the <span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">EU<\/span> &#8216;s highly controversial and ideologically pushed-through <span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">ban on combustion engines<\/span> a serious mistake? And if so, shouldn&#8217;t it be overturned immediately?<\/p>\n<p>Helmut Becker, former chief economist at the  <span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">BMW<\/span>  Group and Head of the Institute for Economic Analysis and Communication (<span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">IWK<\/span>) refers in his monthly column about the automobile market for  <span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">ntvNews<\/span>  that the criticism from economists, engineers, scientists and now also politicians of this decision by the European Union and of the one-sided focus on  <span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">Electromobility<\/span>  grows.<\/p>\n<p>In his column, he metaphorically compares dealing with the burnout as follows: &#8220;If a patient with a sensitive stomach cannot tolerate coffee beans, the doctor recommends malt coffee or similar surrogates. But he does not advise smashing the coffee grinder or coffee machine. It is not the engine that causes climate damage, but the combustion of fossil <span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">fuels<\/span> such as <span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">petrol<\/span> or <span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">diesel<\/span>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail-\">\n<div class=\"gmail-_1mf gmail-_1mj\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.n-tv.de\/wirtschaft\/Ist-das-Verbrenner-Aus-ein-schwerer-Fehler-article24894023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.n-tv.de\/wirtschaft\/Ist-das-Verbrenner-Aus-ein-schwerer-Fehler-article24894023.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His recommendation: until electromobility is perhaps really suitable for everyday use and clean at some point, simply use modern <span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">biofuels<\/span> and <span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">eFuels<\/span><span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">(synthetic<\/span> <span class=\"gmail-_5zk7\">fuels<\/span>) in combustion engines!<\/p>\n<p>The European elections24 on June 9 can certainly make a difference!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European elections are coming up soon and more and more experts and voters are asking themselves: Is the EU &#8216;s highly controversial and ideologically pushed-through ban on combustion engines a serious mistake? And if so, shouldn&#8217;t it be overturned immediately? Helmut Becker, former chief economist at the BMW Group and Head of the Institute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8726,"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-8790","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\/8790","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=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.efuels-forum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}