Volkswagen plans to stop selling combustion engine vehicles in Europe by 2035

Volkswagen plans to stop selling combustion engines in Europe by 2035, a board member told German newspaper Muenchner Merkur.

Klaus Zellmer, a member of Volkswagen's sales board, told the paper that the company will “exit the business with internal combustion engine cars in Europe between 2033 and 2035.” However, he added, it would take longer to stop combustion engine sales in the US and China - which would come “somewhat later,” he said - and in South America and Africa, where he said, “it will take a good deal longer.”

Zellmer says the automaker's entire fleet will be carbon neutral by 2050 at the latest. He wants to see electric vehicles account for 70 percent of the company's total sales in Europe by 2030.

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Volkswagen's carbon-neutral target is close to that of several competitors; Ford said earlier this year it would only sell electric vehicles in Europe by 2030 and planned to spend $1 billion to turn its Cologne, Germany, plant into an EV production line. And in April Honda said it plans to discontinue gas-powered cars by 2040.

Several European countries have their own targets for banning traditional gas-powered vehicles, with Norway targeting 2025 and France targeting 2040, and the UK planning by 2050. In the US, California plans to ban sales of gas-powered vehicles by 2035, with some other states adopt the California model.

Via Reuters.

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