France and Germany have agreed to push for a further weakening of the EU’s planned phaseout of new combustion engine cars, a deal that could break a months-long deadlock among member states, business daily Handelsblatt and newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported.
BMW, Audi, and Mercedes are struggling to differentiate themselves when the performance is all but equal and all the cars weigh 2 tonnes.
And that’s just the ICE cars. EVs are a bigger challenge. Delaying the inevitable is not going to help.