The European Union is to slash vehicle carbon emissions one third more from 2021 through 2030. Europe already has tough standards for reducing carbon-dioxide emissions in current and future vehicles.
Under the newly adopted plan, passenger cars and light trucks must cut CO2 emission by 15 percent over their 2021 levels by 2025, and by 30 percent by 2030.
The EU commission acknowledged that these levels would be hard to meet, and would increase the cost of cars sold to all buyers. It estimated that by 2030, an average new car could cost roughly €1,000 (US$1,160, A$1,530) more, and an average light van about €900 (US$1,050, A$1,377) more. As is common with such rules, savings in fuel costs over the vehicles' lifetimes would make up for the additional upfront cost several times over.
The region's auto industry is at "a turning point," said EU internal market commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska, noting in particular China's plan to end sales of gasoline and diesel-powered cars at some point in the future. The United Kingdom and France are also to phase out diesel and petrol-fuelled cars by 2040.
See more detail from: EU to slash vehicle carbon emissions one third more from 2021 through 2030, by John Voelcker, Green Car Reports, 10 Nov 2017.
Under the newly adopted plan, passenger cars and light trucks must cut CO2 emission by 15 percent over their 2021 levels by 2025, and by 30 percent by 2030.
The EU commission acknowledged that these levels would be hard to meet, and would increase the cost of cars sold to all buyers. It estimated that by 2030, an average new car could cost roughly €1,000 (US$1,160, A$1,530) more, and an average light van about €900 (US$1,050, A$1,377) more. As is common with such rules, savings in fuel costs over the vehicles' lifetimes would make up for the additional upfront cost several times over.
The region's auto industry is at "a turning point," said EU internal market commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska, noting in particular China's plan to end sales of gasoline and diesel-powered cars at some point in the future. The United Kingdom and France are also to phase out diesel and petrol-fuelled cars by 2040.
See more detail from: EU to slash vehicle carbon emissions one third more from 2021 through 2030, by John Voelcker, Green Car Reports, 10 Nov 2017.
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