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The title is not misleading at all, as a phaseout is not a ban, but a gradual transition. And as the lifetime of cars is limited and there will be no new CO2-emitting cars to replace the ones that go away, this ban of new sales will see these cars removed completely at some time, gradually. That's a phaseout.



Usually when a year is given for a phaseout, that's when the phaseout is supposed to be completed, not the point where it begins. The current headline is misleading in that it suggests that ICE cars will be phased out by 2035, instead of that they will begin phasing them out starting in 2035.


> Usually when a year is given for a phaseout, that's when the phaseout is supposed to be completed,

Citation needed.

I see no evidence whatsoever that your claim is true, and it wouldn't even make sense, because with this kind of gradual phaseout you don't actually have control over when it is completed.

All the media reports of this particular phaseout report it exactly like the Reuter's article, so that's a lot of counterexamples right there.

Here's another one: "As a result, in 2009, the department announced the eventual phase out of the 1.5-inch-diameter fluorescent T12 tubes. The mandate said production of the tubes would have to cease after July 14, 2012. "

https://insights.regencylighting.com/the-phase-out-of-t12s-e...

Another one: https://www.epa.gov/ods-phaseout/phaseout-class-ii-ozone-dep...

Again, the only dates mentioned in the phase out are production and import bans.

Very different domain: "North Carolina legislation enacted on November 18 phases out the corporate income tax starting with tax years beginning in 2025,..."

So the date that is mentioned is the beginning of the phaseout, not the completion.

etc.


None of the examples you give refer to their subjects as <year> phaseout, and none list a year at all in their titles. All of them go out of their way to clarify that the dates they give are referring to the beginning of the process, which wouldn't be necessary if that were the default interpretation.


> will see these cars removed completely at some time

You wish. Horses and Horse Carriages aren't even completely gone yet.


No country has banned the sale of horses though.




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