Fact sheet: CO2 standards for heavy-duty vehicles – ACEA

Road freight is the backbone of trade and commerce on the European continent. Vans carry 77{7b5a5d0e414f5ae9befbbfe0565391237b22ed5a572478ce6579290fab1e7f91} of all freight transported about land in the European Union, and operate as portion of a logistics chain whose factors also consist of inland waterways, shipping, air and rail transportation.

The weighty-duty sector is accountable for just above a quarter of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from road transport, and for about 6{7b5a5d0e414f5ae9befbbfe0565391237b22ed5a572478ce6579290fab1e7f91} of the EU’s full GHG emissions.

To curb emissions from street transport, current legislation on CO2 requirements requires makers to lower the emissions of new trucks by 15{7b5a5d0e414f5ae9befbbfe0565391237b22ed5a572478ce6579290fab1e7f91} by 2025 and 30{7b5a5d0e414f5ae9befbbfe0565391237b22ed5a572478ce6579290fab1e7f91} by 2030 (in contrast to a mid-2019 to mid-2020 baseline). Nowadays, practically three out of four new vehicles are matter to the present CO2 reduction requirements.

The legislative critique proposed by the European Commission on 14 February 2023, extends and boosts the concentrate on degrees even more to -45{7b5a5d0e414f5ae9befbbfe0565391237b22ed5a572478ce6579290fab1e7f91} in 2030, -65{7b5a5d0e414f5ae9befbbfe0565391237b22ed5a572478ce6579290fab1e7f91} in 2035 and -90{7b5a5d0e414f5ae9befbbfe0565391237b22ed5a572478ce6579290fab1e7f91} in 2040. With this extension of the scope of the CO2 specifications regulation, a lot more than 98{7b5a5d0e414f5ae9befbbfe0565391237b22ed5a572478ce6579290fab1e7f91} of the sector’s CO2 emissions will be controlled.

As the registrations of zero-emission motor vehicles (battery-electrical and hydrogen-driven) have accelerated (from 692 in 2019 to 1,239 in 2020 and >2,500 in 2022), this fact sheet opinions the elements that ascertain their marketplace uptake and what is required to access latest CO2 benchmarks as nicely as giving estimations on fleet and infrastructure required really should the CO2 reduction targets be enhanced even further.

Building a solid organization situation which strongly supports the procedure of zero-emission vans and buses will guide to fast market adoption of such vehicles and swift decarbonisation of street transportation. Therefore, decarbonising street transport calls for extra than placing higher CO2 targets for producers. Transportation operators ought to be ready to seamlessly recharge/refuel these new motor vehicles, and be ready to operate them far more profitably than their conventionally powered vehicles.

Decarbonising highway transport necessitates a lot more than location greater CO2 targets for makers. Transport operators ought to be able to seamlessly recharge/refuel these new motor vehicles, and be equipped to work them additional profitably than their conventionally driven trucks.