Making electric mandatory or banning ICE? Very different things. One gives electric a monopoly, the other doesn’t.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/eu-approves-effective....

"The European Union struck a deal on Thursday on a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035, aiming to speed up the switch to electric vehicles and combat climate change."

I want to see that!

That cover the EU, but there's a whole lot more to the world than that.

I'll be surprised if there are no fossil fuel cars being made or sold in China and Russia in 15 years. Even in the US, I'm pretty sure the defense department hasn't set a deadline for eliminating fossil fuels from their fleet and they buy a lot of vehicles, making them one of the planet's largest polluters.

Most regulation that I've seen specifies electrified, which includes hybrids, not limited to just BEVs. There are perhaps exceptions, but since most people prefer to be outraged, it all gets peddled as "the gov't is going to force you to buy an EV!"

> carmakers must achieve a 100% cut in CO2 emissions by 2035, which would make it impossible to sell new fossil fuel-powered vehicles in the 27-country EU bloc.