Bonus and penalty
Austria is offering a bonus of €300 for cars with CO2 emissions of no more than 120 g/km, but cars with over 180g will pay €25 per gram over the 180 mark from July, and the same over 160g from January 2010.
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VW to clean Porsche?
Observers of progress on car emissions reductions are watching carefully to see if Porsche’s acquisition of a majority stake in Volkswagen could lead to Porsche claiming ‘its’ vehicles are leaner without the company doing anything.
2020 car targets
MEPs have called for car makers to be set long-term targets for CO2 emissions now and not in a later round of consultations.
Help for electric
Electrically-powered cars offer a better technological option than ‘alternative fuels’, says a study by WWF.
Drive Time Permits
An Irish academic has suggested that the way to solve congestion problems is to give drivers a set amount of driving time per year.
Transport must help meet EU’s climate target, say MEPs
MEPs have called on EU governments to resurrect a proposal to link passenger car taxes to carbon dioxide emissions.
EU Actions for Urban Mobility
Response to the public consultation of the European Commission on a new Action Plan on Urban Mobility
Traffic noise bad for your health
More evidence has emerged about the damage traffic noise can do to people’s health.
Congestion charge trebled for gas guzzlers
The mayor of London says he wants to charge drivers of the highest-consumption cars three times the cost of entering the city centre – €32.50 instead of €10.40 – to send out a signal that gas guzzlers are not good for climate change and don’t belong in cities.
Transport is undermining EU climate efforts, says EEA
The European Environment Agency has attacked the transport sector for causing the EU to miss its Kyoto greenhouse gas reduction target. And its leading official has called for much stricter carbon dioxide targets for new cars than the EU is currently discussing.