Piotr Müller made the statement after a Cabinet meeting in Warsaw, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Müller told reporters: “Poland is against banning the production of internal combustion cars from 2035 because, in our view, currently there isn’t sufficient infrastructure for electric cars in the European Union and in Poland.”
He added: “Besides, the current range of electric cars isn’t big enough to warrant the abandoning of the production of internal combustion cars.”
He also told the media that there were "various geopolitical risks" connected with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“For some time, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Climate and Environment Minister Anna Moskwa have been building a coalition within the EU against the proposed ban on internal combustion cars,” Müller said.
He added that there were no differences of opinion on the issue within the government.
On June 8, lawmakers in the European Parliament voted that all new cars and vans sold in the EU should be zero-emissions vehicles from 2035 in a bid to clean up road transport.
The proposed ban on internal combustion cars is a key tenet of the EU’s emissions reduction plan, Fit for 55.
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Source: IAR, PAP, politico.eu