Jordyn Dahl
Lobbyists fight to keep the EU’s 2035 gas car phase-out alive
The European Union's green agenda is increasingly under fire, which is prompting backers of the idea of ending the sale of fossil fuel cars by 2035 to unleash campaigns aimed at ensuring no backsliding after June's European election.On Wednesday, green gr...
6 months ago
Chinese electric vehicles face possible EU tariff hit
BRUSSELS — Chinese electric carmakers raced to get EVs into the bloc ahead of the July 5 deadline when new EU tariffs went into effect, betting they would not face backdated duties. But they may have miscalculated, with the European Commission saying that...
2 months ago
Safety deteriorating at Ukraine nuclear plant after drone strike, IAEA warns
Safety at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is deteriorating, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned following a drone strike near the facility, Europe's largest nuclear plant.The drone struck about 100 meters from the Dniprovska po...
1 month ago
5 things to know about Europe’s electric vehicle transition
The next decade is make-or-break for Europe's automotive sector as it faces both pressure to decarbonize and fierce competition from China. "Either they manage to launch products that are competitive overall, or they will not make it. It's very simple," s...
1 month ago
Volkswagen is the anti-Tesla and China is to blame
In Volkswagen’s heyday at the turn of the decade, then-CEO Herbert Diess and Tesla chief Elon Musk had an unusual bromance, often heaping praise on one another’s automotive achievements.Diess hailed Tesla as the benchmark for success, while Musk went so f...
1 month ago
A trip across Europe in an electric car, one charge at a time
This article is part of The New Commute, a special report on urban mobility in Europe from POLITICO’s Global Policy Lab: Living Cities. Sign up here.We stood by the charger discussing the correct order of things: Do you charge the payment card and then pl...
3 weeks ago
Italy is all smoke and no roast on CO2 car emissions review
Italian Industry Minister Adolfo Urso ended his lobbying blitz last week with a press release heralding the support of member countries for Rome's effort to tweak the bloc's looming ban on the sale of fossil-fuel-powered cars by 2035.While Italy's officia...
1 week ago