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Submitted on: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 12:02In this letter and explanatory 'non-paper' obtained by T&E, the EU's industry and climate commissioners outline evidence of the car industry manipulating the new WLTP emissions tests. The non-paper details the methods used to inflate CO2 emissions values. The Commission explains that such inflation effectively weakens the ambition of the proposed new car CO2 reduction targets for 2025 and 2030. The letter and paper were sent to the Austrian presidency of the EU, the chair of the European Parliament environment committee and the lead MEP on the legislation for new car CO2 targets.
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Submitted on: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 17:49The 2050 strategy being developed by the European Commission for the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) is of key importance to the future of European climate policy. The strategy's central aim is to guide European climate policy towards adhering to the Paris climate agreement, ie how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors of the economy to limit global temperature rises to well below 2ºC.
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Submitted on: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 - 16:59After having demonstrated in 2016 that indirect TPMS could be optimised to pass the regulatory test but fail to perform appropriately on the road, Transport & Environment (T&E) commissioned Dekra to carry out an independent on-road field survey to measure tyre pressure of about 1,000 cars in Italy and Portugal from random drivers.
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Submitted on: Friday, August 24, 2018 - 11:25This paper investigates the role that long-haul battery electric trucks may play in Europe to help achieve the Paris Agreement goal, to decarbonise road transport in the EU by 2050. The paper looks at the latest in market developments from EU and international truck makers.
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Submitted on: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - 08:58The biggest failure of the current regulation to reduce CO2 emissions from new cars and vans has been the inability to deliver emissions reductions on the road. Whilst new car CO2 emissions measured using the obsolete laboratory test (NEDC) have fallen by 31% since 2000, on the road the reduction is just 10%. The gap between test and real-world performance has leapt from 9% in 2000 to 42% in 2017. Had the gap remained constant there would have been 264 Mt CO2eq less cumulative emissions by 2017. The additional fuel burned to produce these emissions cost drivers an extra €150 billion EU-wide.
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