Details on emissions reductions made by car manufacturer groups ACEA, JAMA and KAMA including historical figures.
The European Commission has not yet made public the CO2 figures for the years 2005 or 2006. T&E analysed sales and CO2 information in the European Commission database that forms the basis of the official EU monitoring mechanism on cars and CO2.
T&E was granted access to the database following a request under EU access to documents law.
But the car lobby is demanding that the EU scrap rules that would better reflect PHEV pollution.
New EU data shows the importance of the planned correction of the 'utility factor' for plug-in hybrids.