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Porsche's bestselling cars today are SUVs, a far cry from what the luxury brand built its reputation on — small, nimble and, above all, unique rear-engine sports cars like the 911.Now the famous German automaker is faced with the challenge of how to maintain a connection to its illustrious heritage, and its distinct brand identity, in the EV era. The answer might be something called eFuel — or fuel made in a factory partly from carbon pulled from the atmosphere.Porsche has invested more than $100 million in the…

VW brand chief Thomas Schäfer said that recent discussion over an e-fuel exception to EU’s 2035 gas car ban is “unnecessary noise” and that “by 2035 are over anyway,” in a recent interview with Automotive News Europe. The interview mostly covered European topics, such as the availability of Volkswagen’s upcoming EVs in Europe. But the VW executive also spoke forcefully about electrification being a no-brainer. The EU was recently about to finalize a plan to ban new internal combustion…

Luxury carmakers’ push for synthetic e-fuels has weakened the European Union’s plan to get internal combustion engines off the road in the future. After weeks of delay, the Council of the European Union adopted regulations today to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from new cars and vans by 2035. That would have amounted to an effective ban on cars with internal combustion engines (ICE) if not for a last-minute update that carves out an exemption for ICE cars that swap out gasoline for e-fuels. E-fuel is a synthetic…

<!----> Credit: Andri wahyudi/Shutterstock.com. The European Commission reportedly has agreed to propose a legal route to exempt cars that run on e-fuels from the EU’s 2035 phaseout of new combustion engine vehicles to resolve a row with Germany over Europe’s main car climate policy. According to…

Following talks that carried late into Friday evening, representatives from both the EU and member state Germany have relayed that an agreement has been reached in the proposed 2035 ban of new combustion vehicle sales that will now include exceptions for e-fuels. After 2035, some combustion vehicles can still be sold, as long as they run entirely on carbon-neutral fuel alternatives. We don’t feel the need to give you the full recap, because we’ve been updating this ongoing saga of the EU…

According to a draft proposal recently seen by the media, the European Commission has reportedly added an amendment to its 2035 combustion vehicle ban that allows for the sale of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles after the expiry, as long as they run entirely on climate-neutral e-fuels. This move is the latest chapter in a saga to ban ICE vehicles in the EU that has recently been stifled by countries insisting on the additional e-fuel exceptions, led by automotive juggernaut, Germany.…