
The European Union still wants to ban sales of new cars with combustion engines starting in 2035. Don't worry–you'll still be allowed to drive your gas car a decade from now, and new numbers suggest it will take a long time, probably decades, before everyone will switch to EVs. Many doubt that's going to happen. There were nearly 249 million cars on the road in the EU in 2023, but purely electric vehicles represented just 1.8% of the total.