Most recently, the move by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson caused a sensation: He wants to ban the sale of internal combustion engines on the island from 2030 for ten years sooner than planned. He is following the example of some European countries in which the ban has already been adopted. Europe’s auto industry then referred to the plan as “symbolic politics”.

Ban: yes, only unclear when But is the accusation of populism so wrong? Hardly if you look at the opinion of the people in Germany: with a narrow margin, a majority in this country is in favor of a ban on cars with combustion engines. When it comes to the question of how quickly such a ban should come, there are different ideas, as from the representative survey by the opinion research institute YouGov on behalf of the car sales platform mobile.de which the German press agency .

42, 8 percent are in favor of a ban, 42, 3 percent against. The rest did not want to commit or gave no information. Most of the proponents, on the other hand, are in favor of an end to the combustion engine at the latest from 2030, slightly less in favor of 2025.

The majority of drivers still want to drive fossil fuel If you only count those survey participants who are also drivers themselves, the majority is against a ban on combustion engines. With 48, 2 percent opponents and 41, 0 percent supporters, but the difference is not too big here either. According to the survey, there are particularly many prohibitionists in the group of 18 – to 34 – year-olds, where more than one in two is in favor and the tendency is also for a rather rapid implementation. There is the least agreement in the age group from 42 to 54 Years.

Most of them say they believe in the market Good 40 Percent of all respondents do not believe, however, that a ban on internal combustion engines would be a suitable means of introducing new technologies such as batteries or fuel cells Helping cars make a breakthrough. They are more likely to think that these will prevail on their own if the citizens are ready for it. On the other hand, just percent say that it doesn’t work without a ban. Around 31 Find percent: partly, partly.

Auto industry fears factual ban by emissions standard There are always very different demands in politics about a possible ban on combustion engines. Recently there had been discussions about a possible new Euro 7 emissions standard from 54, in which the auto industry, should the considerations be implemented, a de facto end for combustion engines.

(fpi)