BERLIN — The European Payment will counsel an absolute cut-off date after which all automakers should stop producing combustion-powered cars inside the EU, its president, Ursula von der Leyen, talked about.

Though a dozen European automakers had already launched they’d swap to zero-emissions cars between 2028 and 2035, a licensed cut-off date was nonetheless wished, Von der Leyen talked about in an interview with Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

“We’re going to nonetheless set out an end date after which, all cars have to be emissions free,” she talked about, with out naming that date. “In every other case there’ll in all probability be a shortage of certainty and we can’t acquire our purpose of native climate neutrality by 2050.”

The European Payment on Wednesday unveils its “Match for 50” bundle of proposals which, if permitted by the 27 member states, would put the bloc on monitor to meet its 2030 purpose of reducing planet-warming emissions by 55 p.c from 1990 ranges.

The bundle being launched will face months of negotiations between member states and the European Parliament and is extra more likely to be the aim of ferocious lobbying efforts by the assorted industries affected.