Europe's embattled auto industry and its backers are ramping up pressure on the EU to relax its planned 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel car sales -- hoping for a decision by year end.The European Commission is due to review the target on December 10 as part of a broader rescue plan for the sector but competing demands from member states and industry risk forcing it to push back the date.The goal of switching all new cars to electric by 2035 was set in 2023 as a flagship measure of the EU's environmental Green Deal and a key step towards the bloc achieving climate neutrality by 2050.But two years on, calls are mounting to revise the target in the name of "pragmatism"."Our sector has received the most stringent target as it was perceived to be one of the easiest to decarbonise," the Europe

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