Cars

News: Let's hand some power back to customers over choice of tyres!

Editorial by Nina Renshaw, T&E Policy Officer What's black and round, saves you money, protects the climate, improves your health and makes you more popular with your neighbours?

July 22, 2008 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | Noise | T&E Bulletin

News: Cars CO₂ deal 'unacceptable'

Italy has reacted angrily to last month's French-German deal on car emissions worked out by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy.

July 22, 2008 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | T&E Bulletin | Pricing & Taxation

Publications: EU spending €1 billion a day on oil imports as leaders backtrack on efficient cars

For the first time in history European Union member states are spending over €1 billion every day on imported oil, four times more than in 2003 and smashing all previous records, according to analysis by Transport and Environment (T&E). But European leaders are failing to make the connection between rocketing oil prices and worrying levels of oil dependence on the one hand, and the need to tackle Europe's gas guzzling car fleet on the other.

June 18, 2008 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy

News: Europe should reject France and Germany's 'disastrous' car CO2 pact

German chancellor Angela Merkel emerged victorious from negotiations with her French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy earlier this month on an agreement that could severely weaken the upcoming car CO2 law. T&E is calling on the other EU member states to reject the deal.

June 16, 2008 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | T&E Bulletin

News: Proposed tyre rules ignore worst offenders

The Commission's proposed new noise and energy efficiency standards for tyres are set to exclude the noisiest and most fuel-inefficient cars.

June 16, 2008 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | Noise | T&E Bulletin

News: Europe's billion euro a day oil imports are a wake-up call for fuel-efficient cars

Editorial by Jos Dings, Director, T&E Over a long-weekend at the beginning of this month, Europe witnessed a breathtaking example of political schizophrenia.

June 16, 2008 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | Fuels | T&E Bulletin

News: Car advertising

The Commission wants people's views on how to improve consumer information in advertisements for new cars. The consultation comes after Brussels admitted the 1999 directive requiring fuel consumption and CO2 labelling of all new cars is 'not working as well as it could'. One of the options proposed is to make the rules on advertising information more strict.

June 16, 2008 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | T&E Bulletin

News: Carmakers should come clean on emissions targets

T&E's Kerstin Meyer writes in today's Financial Times: To say that carmakers have reversed their stance on emissions is a bit of a stretch (report, June 4). The German car lobby and, to be fair, the industry as a whole have, rather, re-branded their attempts at watering down the European Union's proposed car fuel efficiency targets. The "integrated approach" used to be the buzzword of choice. Now it is "eco-innovations".

June 10, 2008 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy

News: Tyre noise exemption for SUVs as research shows traffic noise causing more deaths than car accidents

The European Commission is set to propose new noise and energy efficiency standards for tyres with a blanket exemption for Europe's noisiest and most gas gazzling sports-utility vehicles (SUVs), according to draft rules seen by T&E.

May 21, 2008 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | Noise | Press Releases

News: German limit

Germany’s city-state of Bremen announced last month that its 60 kilometres of motorway will have a blanket 120 km/h speed limit.