Internal combustion cars are forbidden to sell. The EU commissioner gives the alarm
Thierry Breton also stated explicitly that if planned ban would lead to an economic failure of the EU, its deadline will have to be revised. At the same time, he recalled that the political agreement reached by the Council of the EU and the European Parliament concerning the ban on the sale of internal combustion cars contains a “fallback clause”, which is to be launched in 2026 to review the situation and possibly postpone the recall date.
Breton pointed out that the game is about 600,000. jobs that will be liquidated in the transition from combustion to electric cars:
– We are not only talking about big car manufacturers that will surely manage, but about the whole “ecosystem” and about electricity production – he explained.
He also emphasized that in order to produce electric cars to replace traditional The EU “will need 15 times as much lithium by 2030, four times as much cobalt, four times as much graphite, three times as much nickel.”
– It will mean a huge consumption of raw materials. We have to look at it – he announced.
Where to get electricity?
In addition, Breton’s calculations show that “if we want all cars to be electric, we will need 150 GW of electricity more annually”, which means from 20 to 25 percent. more electricity than Europe currently produces.
– So we will have to significantly increase the production of electricity. But it will have to be zero-emission electricity – if it comes from coal or gas, it doesn’t make sense, said Thierry Breton.
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