If you want a combustion car, hurry up. These are the years when each brand will stop selling them

Neither hybrids, nor gasoline, nor diesel. The year 2035 is the death of internal combustion engines in the EUand no new vehicles equipped with any technology other than pure electric or fuel cell may be sold.

Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz consider it an “ambitious but attainable” goalprovided that market conditions permit. Meanwhile, the rest of the brands have been drawing up their own plan, some later than others.

One of the first brands to abandon combustion engines was smart, which under the influence of the Chinese giant Geely In 2020, it began manufacturing its urban cars solely with an electric motor and batteries.

At the opposite pole we find Honda, which has set itself 2040 to abandon combustion engines worldwide, although as of this year should focus solely on hybrids and electrics in Europe.

It may be one of the most difficult brands to meet, since they rely on hybrids and plug-in hybrids as an intermediate step. already last year recognized that it will not be able to stop selling gasoline cars before 2040.

SEAT doesn’t have it easy either.

For your part BMW is not willing to abandon combustion engines, although he assures that he is prepared. The Bavarian firm estimates that 50% of global car sales will be electric vehicles by 2030.

In the case of Audi, the brand assured that its gasoline and diesel models would continue to be sold from 2026 as long as there is demand.

In 2035 the sale will be prohibited – but not the use of vehicles equipped with thermal engines – to make Europe carbon neutral by 2050.

Previously, an intermediate objective of 55% reduction in polluting emissions from new cars and vans in 2030 and reducing them to zero five years later has been established.