Climate, Marine Tondelier
End of sales of combustion-engine cars: Maintain 100% zero-emission sales in 2035
Direction of change: unchanged, compared with current law.
The lever. End of sales of new combustion-engine cars planned by the European Union: timetable, maintenance, postponement or abandonment. Direction rule: ↑ later or more flexible end of sales; ↓: earlier.
« Maintenir l’objectif de 100 % de véhicules zéro émission en 2035 pour les ventes de véhicules neufs. »1Translation by the editorsMaintain the target of 100% zero-emission vehicles in 2035 for sales of new vehicles.
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Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. The European regulation on CO2 standards for new cars (2023) requires a 100% cut in emissions in 2035, which amounts to banning the sale of new combustion-engine cars. On 16 December 2025, the Commission proposed lowering the target to -90% compared with 2021, with offsetting of the remaining 10%. The proposal was still under negotiation according to the sources read.
Horizon. Not applicable.
Limits. This is a European standard, with no direct budgetary effect in France. Budgetary costs run through other levers: the bonus (now funded by the CEE, energy savings certificates), social leasing, the scrappage bonus, and eventually the erosion of excise duties on fuels. A national position does not change the law, which is decided by qualified majority in the Council and the European Parliament.
- L'Union européenne renonce à interdire la vente de véhicules thermiques en 2035 (Reporterre / Boursorama, via résultat de recherche), 2025-12-16: « « L'exécutif européen propose d'abaisser de 100% à 90% l'objectif de réduction des émissions de CO2 … par rapport aux niveaux de 2021 » ; les constructeurs devront « compenser les 10 % d'émissions restantes ». »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- Pour une prospérité écologique, programme des Écologistes, p. 23. Open the document at this page.
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