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Electric cars: If you want to destroy yourselves, keep building combustion engines
🇩🇪 Germany /Environment & Climate

Electric cars: If you want to destroy yourselves, keep building combustion engines

From Die Zeit · () German

Translated from German and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • A Technical University of Munich study found that electric cars emit 41% less CO₂, according to the article.
  • Bavarian Premier Markus Söder cited the study while renewing his call to end the EU’s planned phaseout of combustion-engine vehicles.
  • The article argues that China, rather than the EU combustion-engine phaseout, poses the more important challenge to Germany’s auto industry.

Markus Söder has again called for the European Union to abandon its planned phaseout of combustion-engine cars, citing a Technical University of Munich study that found electric vehicles emit “only” 41% less CO₂.

The article sharply questions the Bavarian premier’s position and says the study does not support the conclusion he draws from it. Söder said the findings showed that the EU urgently needed “the real end of the combustion-engine phaseout,” adding that science now backed his view.

Once again it is becoming clear that the EU urgently needs the real end of the combustion-engine phaseout.

— Markus SöderSöder renewed his call to reverse the EU’s planned phaseout of combustion-engine vehicles.

The commentary instead presents the advance of electric mobility as unstoppable and argues that Germany’s auto industry is confronting a different competitive threat. In its framing, China, not the EU’s combustion-engine rules, represents the central problem for German carmakers.

Science now proves this too.

— Markus SöderHe cited the Munich study in support of his position.
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