Cars / Climate Change & Energy
News: Commission wants CO2 limits for lorries
Efforts to reduce climate emissions from road freight transport were given a boost last month when the Commission suggested the introduction of carbon dioxide emissions standards for the first time. The idea has been floated in a communication on clean and energy-efficient vehicles, which concentrates mainly on setting a framework for the development of electric cars.
May 20, 2010 | Lorries & Road Freight | Fuels | Climate Change & Energy | Cars | T&E Bulletin
News: CO2-based car taxes
The number of EU member countries that have a CO2-based form of car taxation has increased to 17, according to figures from the European car makers association Acea.
May 20, 2010 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | Pricing & Taxation | T&E Bulletin
News: 30% CO2 reduction through 80 km/h speed limit
Research by the respected Dutch consultancy CE Delft has shown that carbon dioxide emissions from road transport could be reduced by 30% if motorway speed limits in the Netherlands were set at 80 km/h.
April 19, 2010 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | Lorries & Road Freight | T&E Bulletin | Vans | Noise
News: Tackling transport demand requires conviction, and sometimes a little ruthlessness
Editorial by Chris Bowers, Editor, T&E Bulletin The man who pioneered London’s congestion charge, Ken Livingstone, was the highest-profile speaker at last month’s T&E annual general meeting, which also celebrated T&E’s 20th birthday.
April 19, 2010 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | Pricing & Taxation | Public & Urban | T&E Bulletin
News: EU helps Swiss emissions fall ... and energy categories get stricter
The Swiss transport and energy ministry has made its new car energy efficiency categories much stricter.
March 18, 2010 | Cars | T&E Bulletin | Climate Change & Energy
News: Motor lobby attack on van CO2 law is not credible
Some of Europe's biggest-selling vans are already close to meeting proposed EU CO2 targets for 2016 after making big improvements in fuel efficiency this year, according to T&E. Meanwhile the car industry lobby continues to claim that EU proposals for binding reduction targets are 'unrealistic'. That claim is not credible, says T&E.
March 12, 2010 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | Press Releases | Vans
News: First climate change commissioner targets lorries and cars for emissions cuts
The EU’s new climate change commissioner is promising an initiative on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from lorries, and says the existing agreement to reduce CO2 emissions from new cars could be tightened to provide greater incentives to car makers.
February 15, 2010 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | General Transport | Lorries & Road Freight | T&E Bulletin
News: Electric cars will only work with 'green' power
The conditions under which electric vehicles could play a significant role in reducing climate changing emissions from transport have been set out in a new study for T&E and two other environmental NGOs. It says the source of the power for electric cars is crucial to their potential to fight climate change.
February 15, 2010 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy | T&E Bulletin
News: EU must commit to green electric cars
Putting more electric cars on the road could increase carbon emissions unless they run on green energy, says a new independent report commissioned jointly by Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace and Transport & Environment. The environmental organisations call for national renewable electricity targets to ensure electric vehicles are truly ‘zero emissions’.
February 8, 2010 | Press Releases | Cars | Climate Change & Energy
News: Recharging fuel efficiency standards
Jos Dings writes in today's European Voice: Visitors to the Brussels motor show last month could have been left with only one impression: the future is electric. As your special report on the future of cars noted (14-20 January), virtually every manufacturer exhibited a car powered by batteries.
February 4, 2010 | Cars | Climate Change & Energy
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