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From my understanding the ban is only on solely combustion powered vehicles, plug in hybrid and methane steam reformation created hydrogen will still be allowed and expected, so it’s not really a ban on fossil fuel cars, but rather just on the inherently carbon producing ones.
Yes, Germany pushed though an "synthetic fuel" exception, but that will be a niche product compared to electric cars.
The main "problem" is that European car manufacturers think small and efficient EVs are not profitable enough, thus they are neglecting that market or even cancelling their existing offers. This of course has a lot of knock-down effects, and with foreign luxury brands also being slowly pushed out of the Chinese market, there is really not much left these European companies can do to keep up their high profit margins (which directly relate to C-suite compensation, hence the big focus on that at the top).
It has to be zero emissions "synthetic fuel" though. So if you use methane it has to be biogas and not natural gas.
The rule is zero emissions for new cars sold in the EU starting 2035. So plug in hybrids are allowed as long as they only use e-fuels. Methane steam reformed hydrogen would also be allowed, as long as the methane does not come from fossil fuels.