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Press Release

‘Carspreading’ to wipe out up to 14% of on-street parking in European cities – study

A new study analyses the relentless growth of newly sold cars across all key dimensions.

Children make their way to school surrounded by SUVs in London, England.




This photograph is part of a new collection of images highlighting the impact of 'carspreading' on the school run taken by photographer Crispin Huges for Clean Cities.

Carspreading is taking over our cities. Cars are getting bigger — about 1cm wider every two years. The thing is, our streets aren’t. More than half of new cars in Europe are too wide for urban parking spaces, leaving our cities crowded and congested. And carspreading is damaging our planet too - petrol and diesel SUVs burn around 20% more fuel, and electric SUVs require more resources and critical battery minerals. 

Clean Cities is Europe’s largest network of organisations dedicated to active, shared and electric urban mobility.
Report

Ever-bigger? Car size at a crossroads

The impacts on safety, space and resource use if carspreading continues to go unchecked.

Letter

Maritime organisations call to include shipping in Electrification Action Plan

Maritime companies and organisations call the EU Commission to fully integrate the shipping industry in the upcoming Electrification Action Plan

Opinion

How can Europe reduce its strategic dependencies by boosting recycling?

Europe talks the talk on recycling. But can it walk the walk? The upcoming Circular Economy Act must prove we have what it takes.

Report

Electric resilience: How Ukraine became a rising star in EV mobility

This briefing analyses the uptake of BEVs, charging infrastructure roll-out, and compliance with AFIR targets in Ukraine.

Opinion

Europe’s sovereignty budget

Imagine if Europe chose to spend a half a trillion a year on a dependency that benefits regimes which wish it harm. We don’t have to imagine it. We ar...

Letter

The EU must reset the narrative on vehicle electrification, says broad coalition of industry groups and civil society

In a letter to EU leaders, the group says that rather than lowering ambition, Europe must focus on accelerating electrification.

Consultation response

Draft Guidelines on State Aid to the air transport sector - T&E consultation response

Letter

Aviation clean-tech coalition urges the Commission to make the EU the home of zero-emission flights

Briefing

How Europe can lead the next generation flights

Briefing

Majority of Europeans back reducing fossil fuel imports to make Europe safer, polling shows

YouGov poll findings commissioned by E3G, T&E and the Electrification Alliance

Press Release

150 new power plants: the cost of balancing the grid if the EU slashes EV targets

Scaling back the EU’s electric car targets makes the transition to renewables far more expensive to achieve.