{"id":30879,"date":"2016-10-09T01:48:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T08:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/germany-calls-for-a-ban-on-combustion-engine-cars-by-2030"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:23:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:23:28","slug":"germany-calls-for-a-ban-on-combustion-engine-cars-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/germany-calls-for-a-ban-on-combustion-engine-cars-by-2030","title":{"rendered":"Germany calls for a ban on combustion engine cars by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/germany-calls-for-a-ban-on-combustion-engine-cars-by-2030.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Germany isn\u2019t content with relying on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/09\/20\/the-all-electric-chevy-bolt-costs-30-000\/\">financial incentives<\/a> to usher in an era of pollution-free cars. The country\u2019s Bundesrat (federal council) <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fauto%2Faktuell%2Fbundeslaender-wollen-benzin-und-dieselautos-ab-2030-verbieten-a-1115671.html&edit-text=\">has passed<\/a> a resolution calling for a ban on new internal combustion engine cars by 2030. From then on, you\u2019d <em>have<\/em> to buy a zero-emissions vehicle, whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/10\/01\/ev-concepts-merge-with-reality-at-the-paris-auto-show\/\">it\u2019s electric<\/a> or running on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/06\/30\/toyota-mirai-test-drive\/\">hydrogen fuel cell<\/a>. This isn\u2019t legally binding, but the Bundesrat is asking the European Commission to implement the ban across the European Union\u2026 and when German regulations tend to shape EU policy, there\u2019s a chance that might happen.<\/p>\n<p>The council also wants the European Commission to review its taxation policies and their effect on the \u201cstimulation of emission-free mobility.\u201d Just what that means isn\u2019t clear. It could involve stronger tax incentives for buying zero-emissions cars, but it could also involve eliminating tax breaks for diesel cars in EU states. Automakers are already worried that tougher emission standards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/10\/18\/car-makers-worry-over-emissions-tests\/\">could kill diesels<\/a> \u2014 remove the low cost of ownership and it\u2019d only hasten their demise.<\/p>\n<p>Not that the public would necessarily be worried. <em>Forbes<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bertelschmitt\/2016\/10\/08\/germanys-bundesrat-resolves-end-of-internal-combustion-engine\/#149aedd931d9\">notes<\/a> that registrations of diesels, still mainstays of the European car market, dropped sharply in numerous EU countries in August. There\u2019s a real possibility that Volkswagen\u2019s emission cheating scandal is having a delayed effect on diesel sales. Combine that with larger zero-emissions incentives and the proposed combustion engine ban, and it might not take much for Europeans to go with electric or hydrogen the next time they go car shopping.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/10\/08\/germany-wants-combustion-engine-ban\/?sr_source=Facebook\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/10\/08\/germany-wants-combustion...e=Facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany isn\u2019t content with relying on financial incentives to usher in an era of pollution-free cars. The country\u2019s Bundesrat (federal council) has passed a resolution calling for a ban on new internal combustion engine cars by 2030. From then on, you\u2019d have to buy a zero-emissions vehicle, whether it\u2019s electric or running on a hydrogen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,45,31,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-finance","category-policy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60129,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30879\/revisions\/60129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}