On Tuesday night, negotiators from the EU Parliament, Council and Commission agreed on new expansion targets for charging infrastructure in Europe. The trilogue agreement on the Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) stipulates that a charging capacity of at least 400 kW must be installed every 60 kilometers for EVs by the end of 2025 and […]
On Tuesday, EU ministers adopted the trilogue results on three key legislative proposals of the Fit for 55 package. The Parliament had already approved the revisions of LULUCF, Effort Sharing, and Market Stability Reserve two weeks ago. Thus, all three dossiers can appear in the EU Official Journal, becoming applicable law.With the new land use […]
Passenger cars and light commercial vehicles must be carbon-neutral from 2035. Whether cars that can be fueled exclusively with e-fuels will also count as such has been the subject of heated debate over the past four weeks, particularly at the insistence of German Transport Minister Volker Wissing. The German government was only able to approve […]
A new report from the European Round Table for Industry (ERT) calls for more action on EU competitiveness. Compared to other economies, investment in research and development is “relatively low” in Europe. This is particularly true for information and communication technologies and is setting Europe back in the “next industrial revolution”. Martin Brudermüller, CEO of […]
In the night from Saturday to Sunday, the clocks were once again advanced to summer time. And once again, the question arises as to when the change between summer and winter time will end. In fact, the EU already announced in 2018 to abolish the seasonal time changes. Since then, the ball has been in […]
In the dispute over the end of the internal combustion engine, the German Free Democratic Party (FDP) always demanded legal certainty that “e-fuels only” vehicles could also be registered after 2035. A corresponding demand was indeed included in a recital of the tightened EU fleet standards, which stipulate CO2 reduction targets for car manufacturers. But […]
On Thursday night, negotiators from the EU Parliament, Council, and Commission agreed on a compromise for new fuel standards for ships (FuelEU Maritime) to decarbonize the maritime sector. Ships with a gross tonnage over 5,000 will have to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by two percent from 2025 compared to 2020, six percent from 2030, […]
In the middle of last week, German Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) called for a perspective for “e-fuels only” vehicles in order to avert the complete end of internal combustion engines in 2035. A short time later, the Commission presented a corresponding draft for supplementary legislation. In the draft, which is available to Table.Media, the […]
The synthesis report of the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) does not contain any new facts. It brings together and reorganizes the various findings of the three working groups and several IPCC special reports.Key points of the report:Human activities are “clearly” causing global warming of 1.1 degrees Celsius so […]
The Federal Ministry of Transport has submitted a proposal on how to resolve the dispute over the 2035 phase-out of internal combustion vehicles within the German government. As the Federal Ministry for the Environment confirmed to Table.Media, the proposal was sent to the EU Commission on Wednesday afternoon. It is intended to allow internal combustion […]