Electric Vehicles

Analysis: Calls grow to reverse 2035 ban on fossil fuel cars as EV sales stagnate

The European Court of Auditors was the latest body to raise concerns about the proposed 2035 EU ban on internal combustion engine cars

The most notable voice to call for a scrapping of the ban on selling electric cars is Germany’s Christian Democrats

One of the most eye catching commitments in the 2020 programme for government was to ban the sale of new fossil fuel cars in Ireland from 2030.

You might be wondering why you haven’t heard too much about that ambitious plan of late. That’s because it was quietly dropped by the government last year, as revealed by this publication, after the EU warned Ireland it could not legislate alone on the issue, due to EU ...