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.



Does it even make a difference? Even today one has to be creative to argume against buying a an EV over an ICE. I cannot see more than the 5% most idealistic people buying a new ICE car in 2035. Also the moment will come when the manufacturing lines of ICE cars are so unproductive that the manufacturers will shut them down on their own. It is up to them if they will still be making cars after that point.