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Jean Claude Juncker’s chief of staff instructed EU commissioners to remove potential sanctions on\u00a0automakers\u00a0who fail to reach\u00a0electric car targets, according to sources, even though documents seen by\u00a0Climate Home News show VW has lobbied for\u00a0comparable measures.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Martin Selmayr, a German lawyer and one of commission president\u00a0Juncker’s closest advisors, sent out the order last Thursday following a meeting with Matthias Wissman, the head of the powerful German auto-manufacturers lobby, the VDA, two EU sources confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n

On top of\u00a0reducing the electric vehicles mandate – due to be\u00a0proposed on November 8 – to a voluntary scheme, Selmayr, the powerful official\u00a0dubbed ‘Rasputin’ and ‘monster’ by UK Brexiteers<\/span><\/a>, also demanded that a 2025 target for vehicle emissions reductions be scrapped.<\/span><\/p>\n

Selmayr denied he had made the intervention. “This is not true. Obviously invented,” he told Climate Home News.<\/p>\n

Commission spokeswoman\u00a0Mina Andreeva would neither confirm nor deny that Selmayr had sent out an instruction to commissioners. But\u00a0she said that Selmayr had referred Wissman on to the climate commissioner, Miguel Arias Ca\u00f1ete, after receiving a phone call from him last Thursday.\u00a0The lobbyist and Ca\u00f1ete then spoke the following day, Andreeva said.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0energy commissioner’s press team said: “During the call, Mr Wissman outlined VDA’s position on the upcoming proposal on CO2 standards for cars and vans. The commissioner explained the rationale behind the preparation of the draft proposal and did not comment on the content of any of the proposals that will be part of the package.”<\/p>\n

The day before he spoke to Selmayr, Wissman and Gunther Oettinger, the German vice president of the commission, made a joint plea<\/a>\u00a0for there to be no electric car quotas in the EU proposal.<\/p>\n

The German chancellor Angela Merkel is currently\u00a0locked in coalition talks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0with the Greens, who favour strong CO2 regulation for automobiles and the pro-business Free Democrats, who do not.<\/span><\/p>\n

The resulting stasis has led the auto industry to use its Brussels contacts to tip the balance of power, according to Greg Archer, T&E’s clean vehicles director.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHaving failed to gain support from the German Government the VDA has run to their German friends in the commission to emasculate the commission’s proposal for future car CO2 regulations,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is blindingly shortsighted and unnecessary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While no announcement on a final decision is expected before November 8, during the Cop23 climate summit, sources say that the issue is being debated by key commissioners today.<\/span><\/p>\n

One EU official told Climate Home News that despite Selmayr’s intervention, the inclusion of sanctions with the CO2 in cars proposal was strongly backed by several commissioners. \u201cIt is not finished,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are still discussing it internally.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In its present form, the draft blueprint\u00a0would reportedly use<\/span><\/a>\u00a0carbon offsetting to reward or punish carmakers’ efforts to meet a 15-20% target for zero-emitting vehicles by 2030, with a possible additional target of 10% for plug in electric hybrids.<\/span><\/p>\n

Report:<\/strong> EU \u2018increasingly likely\u2019 to implement electric car quota, despite denials<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An overarching 25-30% emissions reductions goal for cars in 2030 – and 30-40% for vans \u2013 has also been pencilled in to deliver a big chunk of the bloc’s 40% emissions cut, pledged under the Paris agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re trying to give a signal that the decarbonisation of transport needs zero-emitting vehicles (ZEVs) and we don’t want them all to be Chinese, American or Asian,\u201d an EU source said. \u201cEurope’s industry can manufacture them too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s why we need a signal from a benchmarking system beyond CO2 targets that tells industry how many batteries we need, and local authorities how much infrastructure for charging we need,” said the source.<\/span><\/p>\n

The draft measure was opposed by the influential European Automobile Manufacturers Association (Acea), which\u00a0pushed for lower goals and less ambitious conditions on any ZEV mandate<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

But the industry bigwigs may have been lobbying for a more regressive position than their own members advocate. A VW lobby presentation seen by Climate Home News shows that the firm could accept a ZEV mandate of 22% in 2025, rising to 34.5% in 2030 under certain conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Archer said: \u201cAs the VW leak shows carmakers can accept a ZEV mandate and targets more ambitious than the commission is proposing. But some European carmakers are fixated on preserving the market for dirty diesel in Europe for as long as possible, despite collapsing sales, in a desperate attempt to recoup their past unwise investments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If the commission’s proposal is lost as a result of the last minute manouevring, attention will switch to the European parliament, where MEPs\u00a0could reinject some of its original ambition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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