How Clean are Europe’s Cars? (2010 edition)

This report is the fifth T&E has published on the annual progress Europe’s major car manufacturers have made in reducing CO₂ emissions and fuel consumption of new cars. The main purpose of these reports is to assess the progress that major car manufacturers in Europe are making towards cutting the average CO₂ emissions of their products. We also assess how each carmaker is positioned to hit the mandatory CO₂ standards that the European Union has set for 2015. In this year’s report, we add an analysis showing to what extent the CO₂ reductions achieved can be attributed to the financial crisis i.e. sales of cheaper, smaller cars, and to what extent to technological improvements.