The European Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) announced its support for the proposed plan to ban new fossil fuel-powered vehicles from 2035.

Last week, the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) announced its support for the proposed plan to ban new fossil fuel-powered vehicles from 2035. Accordingly, the sale of new gasoline and diesel vehicles will be banned in the EU in order to cut carbon dioxide emissions completely by 2035. In other words, vehicles that cause pollution with carbon dioxide emissions will be withdrawn from the market.

It is considered part of the EU’s Green Deal plan, which aims to achieve net-zero CO2 emissions by the middle of the century. This package will be voted on in the plenary session of the European Parliament in the coming days.

In other words, vehicles using internal combustion engines (ICE) will be banned on the roads of the European Union. We noted that the German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke said that the EU executive branch supports the plan in all its aspects.

Transportation is one of the most critical factors triggering the climate crisis. It is known that road transport in particular accounts for 89 percent of carbon emissions. Parallel to this, it is aimed to electrify road transport, especially by the member states of the European Union. The aim is to stabilize the increase in global warming at 1.5 degrees. On the one hand, greenhouse gas emissions from road transport in Europe are thought to be  600 million tons of CO2 in 2020.

Auto brands are working towards this plan. Automaker Audi aims to launch only fully electric vehicles from 2026. BMW plans to sell 10 million electric cars this decade.