The EU should scrap its total ban on selling new cars with combustion engines after 2035 to help preserve its vehicle industry, the leader of the biggest political group in the European parliament has said.
Manfred Weber, who heads the European People’s party of Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, told the Financial Times that people should be able to buy petrol and diesel cars as long as the carbon emitted is offset.
“I use a classical combustion engine, with classical fuel, but then pay for storing CO₂ in the soil — probably that is a business model for the future,” he said.
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