News Digest Item
20 Oct 2016

“Sefcovic wants to up the pressure on car industry to innovate”

Bizz energy

EU Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic has welcomed political efforts in Germany to decarbonise road transport, reports bizz energy. In an interview with the magazine, Sefcovic left open whether he would support the initiative by the council of the German federal states (Bundesrat) to set incentives so that all new cars registered in the EU will be emission-free by 2030. He said he wanted to wait for the results of the Commission’s consultation on the issue.

Read the article in German here.

Read the CLEW article German states - New cars in EU should be emission-free by 2030.

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