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EU car CO2 standards are a modern day climate and industrial policy, pushing investment into automotive transformation and securing supply of affordable electric cars to achieve zero carbon transport in Europe. T&E’s analysis shows that the 2020/21 standard of 95g/km will result in plug-in sales of 10% this year and 15% in 2021, making Europe a leading electric car market.

T&E welcomes the opportunity to input into the design of the impact assessment regarding van CO2 standards, and advocates to: (1) Assess CO2 emission reduction targets of 20% for 2025, 31% for 2027 (brought forward from 2030), at least 60% for 2030, at least 86% for 2033 and 100% for 2035 (i.e.

Europe is striving to become the first carbon-neutral continent by 2050 and as a key milestone on this path, the European Commission proposes to raise the greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target for 2030 to at least 55%. Transport is identified as one of the sectors which need to step up efforts urgently. ELENGY supports this very ambitious target.

Transport & Environment feedback on car CO2 standards. Transport & Environment (T&E) welcomes the Commission’s (EC) proposal for a revision of the EU CO2 standards for cars. The 2020/21 EU car CO2 standards have resulted in an unprecedented drop in CO2 emissions from new cars (18%) compared to 2019, driven by the production and sale of a growing offer of EVs (reaching 16% in the first half of 2021).

Linked to the surge in home deliveries, vans are the EU’s fastest growing source of road transport emissions. Unlike for cars, the EU's van CO₂ standards have failed to put electric vans on the market in any real numbers. Only 2% of van sales were electric in 2020, compared to 11% for cars. The Commission’s Fit for 55 proposal that all new vans must be zero emission from 2035 is welcome.

To achieve the EU's climate targets, heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) need to be decarbonised and the sale of most conventional trucks and buses ended by 2035. The review of the HDV CO2 standards is the once in a decade opportunity to put HDVs on a Green Deal compliant trajectory.

The European Commission's proposal to review the CO2 emission standards for new heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) is the most important legislative initiative to regulate climate emissions from trucks and buses in Europe.

Elengy position Regulation on CO2 standards for heavy duty vehicles Elengy fully supports the objective of a regulation aiming at accelerating the decarbonization of heavy duty transport. Though, Elengy considers that the current Commission proposal is making the underlying assumption that electricity and in the future hydrogen are the only solutions to reduce heavy duty transport carbon intensity, irrespective of…