On 15 March, Swiss parliament passed the new CO2 act. Unnoticed by most people, the law contains a small sensation. It puts cars with internal combustion engines (ICEVs) on an equal footing with electric vehicles when calculating CO2 emissions if the cars are fuelled with CO2-neutral eFuels.
While politicians and industry in Europe are still arguing about this issue and cannot seem to find a solution, Switzerland is orientating itself on the physical facts. Renewably produced eFuels are (practically) CO2-neutral. Engines running on them must therefore be assessed differently to combustion engines that are fuelled with fossil fuels.
Specifically, the legislator wants importers of vehicles to be allowed to get credits their vehicle fleet for the amount of CO2-neutral eFuels that they feed into the distribution network. If e.g. a vehicle is imported for which as much eFuels are fed into the grid as the vehicle consumes during its lifetime mileage, this vehicle can be included in the calculation with 0 g CO2/km, just like an electric vehicle, with the difference that it can also charge coal power and still be considered CO2-neutral.
You can find article 11 a in the voting text here (in German)