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Hmm, I wonder if there's a coordinated effort by lobbies to have this kind of plans scrapped. Knowing the car and oil industry, probably.
Or this is probably just a coincidence: Quebec government lifts planned 2035 ban on gas-powered vehicle sales
A paper was recently leaked that the CDU‘s (Merz’s party) position on these topics is directly dictated by the car industry.
I like to think that finally they realized that even this, like most of the green target approved with the past years to please the Green Party, is nice in theory but completely impracticable in the timeframe they set. And the problem are not the car manufacturers, but all the infrastructure you need to set up even before starting to phase out ICE cars.
But even if somehow (in the form of "somehow Palpatine return") you would be able to convert all the car production infrastructure, which means to convert a lot more industries that the car manufacturers, you have the problem to set up all the support infrastructure for the EV cars, like a lot more public charger (ideally one for every gas station), how to solve the problem to install charger in places like historical inner center of cities, in condos which have not the space to install them and things like this.
Not to mention the need to produce a lot more electricity and upgrade the grid so that it can transport a lot more energy also to every little small village in the nation (big cities have public transports, but most of the people do not live in big cities)
So yes, switch to EV cars is a nice idea, but to set a deadline to produce ICE car without starting to plan how to make the transition is stupid.