Combustion Engine Ban: Lies Criticizes Söder – "Harms the Automotive Industry"
Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Olaf Lies criticizes his colleague Markus Söder for his renewed demand to lift the so-called combustion engine ban in the EU.
"It surprises me that this debate keeps coming up," said the SPD politician in an interview with "Wirtschaftswoche." "This is counterproductive and harms the automotive industry as a whole, as it further exacerbates the current uncertainty and the resulting reluctance to buy."
The Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU leader reiterated his demands for the withdrawal of the combustion engine ban at the EU level from 2035 in the ZDF summer interview a few days ago. Instead, he relies on technological openness. Only in this way can jobs and prosperity be secured in Germany, according to Söder.
Lies spoke of a "sham debate."
"Terms are deliberately being used here to instill fear."
No one is being prohibited from driving a vehicle with a combustion engine, said the SPD politician, who also sits on VW's supervisory board as a representative of the state. However, it is also a fact that the EU's climate targets can only be achieved through a far-reaching electrification of the automotive sector.
Content automatically translated."Instead of constantly rehashing old debates, we should be thinking about how to make electromobility so attractive that it becomes a real alternative for everyone," Lies made clear.
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