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E-fuels-only solution: blockade among the member states

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Published: December 11th, 2023,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

A Golf IV with a combustion engine.

There are no signs of an e-fuels-only solution that would allow new cars to run on e-fuels even after the 2035 ban on combustion engines. The member states are blocking each other. Germany is committed to ensuring that e-fuels that emit at least 70 percent less carbon than fossil fuels along the entire value chain are approved by 2035. The requirements are to increase from 2035. E-fuels should then only be approved if 100 percent less carbon is emitted than with conventional fuels. Italy will only agree to this regulation if fuels of biogenic origin are also approved. However, the German government does not support this solution. The green part of the government thinks it would undermine the phase-out of combustion engines in 2035.

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