A law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars has been approved by the European Parliament.
The directive will come into force from 2035, when car manufacturers will be required to achieve a 100 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions from new cars sold in the EU. Votes for were 340 and against 279, with 21 abstentions.
This will mean that it will be impossible to sell new fossil fuel-powered vehicles in the 27-country members states of the EU. It sets an intermediate target of a 55 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions for cars compared with 2021 levels and a 50 per cent reduction for vans by 2030.
