Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001885/2024
to the Commission
Rule 144
Claudiu-Richard Târziu (ECR)
When, in February 2023, Parliament approved – with a fragile majority – the proposal that from 2035 only electric cars would be sold, in order to reach the ‘zero CO2 emissions’ target, its proponents spoke of a historic moment, subsumed under the eco-Marxist left’s dream of achieving so-called climate neutrality by the middle of this century.
But the facts are: battery production and replacement costs have remained extremely high; car-charging infrastructure – one of the critical issues – is far from sufficient; concern about ‘saving the planet’ is a fiction maintained by the extreme environmentalists; and, therefore, electric car sales have fallen massively in the last year.
I ask the Commission, therefore, to respond to the following:
To what extent will the ‘ambitious’ (in fact, utopian) goal of eliminating vehicles powered by conventional fuels in just a few years be achieved, given that demand for electric cars is steadily declining, manufacturers are postponing ‘electrification’ indefinitely, and the trend of rejection of this ideological tool is obvious and growing?
Submitted: 1.10.2024