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How European nations are using tax to promote zero-emissions cars

November 14, 2022 by Griffin Carpenter

Taxation is an effective way to steer people towards zero-emission cars. But there is wide variation between European countries in how this is done, and therefore the results. Griffin Carpenter at Transport & Environment (T&E) summarises their report “The good tax guide: A comparison of car taxation in Europe” that covers seven forms of car taxation across 31 European countries in detail. The ultimate goal should be to create a clear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: Belgium, BEVs, cars, emissions, EU, Europe, EVs, France, road, subsidies, Sweden, tax, transport, UK

New research ranks the 12 best ways to cut car use in cities

May 6, 2022 by Kimberly Nicholas

Behaviour change is as an important part of our transition journey as the clean energy revolution. Kimberly Nicholas at Lund University summarises research that has gathered together nearly 800 peer-reviewed reports and case studies from across Europe that analyse ways of reducing car use. One main challenge is to quantify the benefits so policy-makers and citizens can make evidence-based decisions on how to re-imagine city mobility. Nicholas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: behaviour, bikes, cars, change, Cities, commuting, congestion, Europe, mobility, parking, public, transport

E-fuels for cars are expensive, and pollute the air as much as petrol

December 13, 2021 by Transport & Environment

MEPs and governments are currently deciding on an EC proposal for all new cars sold from 2035 to be 100% zero-emissions. Here, T&E present test results that show e-fuels should not be allowed to replace petrol. T&E are concerned that e-fuels are being promoted as a way to prolong the life of ICE vehicles. But their tests show that e-fuels produce just as much NOx, three times more carbon monoxide, and twice as much ammonia. Though e-fuels … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: ammonia, BEV, CarbonMonoxide, cars, CO2, costs, efuels, electricity, emissions, EVs, ICE, NOx, petrol, pollution, transport, vehicles

Giving car manufacturers e-fuel credits will slow the rise of EVs

September 9, 2021 by Transport & Environment

Transport & Environment (T&E) explains why e-fuel credits should not be included in the EU’s CO2 standards for new cars. If they are, it would give carmakers the option to claim an ICE vehicle as low- or zero-emission. But carmakers have no control over what fuel their customers put in their cars, making the regulation impossible to monitor. That opens the door to double-counting emission reductions with other existing regulations (Fuel … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: aviation, cars, efuels, emissions, emobility, EVs, FQD, RED2, shipping, transport

Aviation should be given target dates for zero-emissions. It’s working for cars and trucks

May 13, 2021 by Andrew Murphy

The French government’s decision to ban some short-haul flights if there is a rail alternative under two and a half hours is only symbolic, says Andrew Murphy at T&E. It would reduce French aviation emissions by only 0.8%. Expanded to rail journeys under five hours and it’s still only 4.5%. Long-haul flying is the much bigger problem, but the resulting emissions are outside of France’s current climate target. Instead of just talking about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: aviation, cars, electrification, emissions, EU, France, hydrogen, rail, synfuels, transport, trucks

Only giving tax breaks to zero-emission company cars will accelerate e-mobility

November 18, 2020 by Chris Bowers

Subsidies and tax breaks for company cars in Europe cost €32bn a year, a hangover from the days when governments were happy to encourage driving. Chris Bowers at T&E reviews a study that explores the issue in a wide range of European nations and reveals that 96% of company cars are petrol and diesel. As an indicator of the scale of emissions, the study says Europe’s 10 largest leasing companies alone – which include BMW’s Alphabet and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: BEV, cars, diesel, emobility, EVs, hybrids, petrol, PHEV, transport

Changes to national targets and forestry mean EC’s 55% plan is weaker than it looks

October 6, 2020 by William Todts

The EC’s plan to reduce the bloc’s emissions by 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, instead of the previously agreed 40%, is very welcome but its implementation plan is flawed, says William Todts at Transport & Environment. The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) won’t be enough on its own. So the plan allows nations to include “managing” forests and “tree plantations”, a big change because forests were not part of previous emissions … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: buildings, CarbonPrice, cars, EC, emissions, ETS, forests, transport

17 GtCO2 avoided, $5tn saved: Rising U.S. car fuel efficiency since 1975

June 1, 2020 by Josh Gabbatiss

Since the 1970s, fuel-economy improvements in U.S. “light-duty” vehicles, with a contribution from rising gasoline prices, have saved 17bn tonnes of CO2, according to a new study reviewed by Josh Gabbatiss at Carbon Brief. That makes rising fuel efficiency’s impact on emissions reductions second only to that of coal-to-gas. New cars, vans and light trucks get about twice as many miles to the gallon as 1975 models. The amount of gasoline therefore … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: cars, CO2, emissions, fuel, gasoline, policies, transport, Trump

Don’t wait for international agreements. Sector-wide action can accelerate the Transition

January 6, 2020 by David Victor

December’s COP25 in Madrid showed how difficult it is proving to get agreement between nations on how to ramp up the deep decarbonisation the world needs. David Victor at the University of California, San Diego, writing for Rocky Mountain Institute, accepts that international consensus is never going to be easy. Instead, he recommends that individual sectors take control of their destiny. His co-authored report “Accelerating The Low Carbon … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: agriculture, aviation, buildings, cars, cement, COP25, emissions, plastics, power, shipping, steel, transport, trucks

Lightweight Gasoline Cars: a necessary 30-year stop gap?

September 10, 2019 by David Chandler

We should all be driving electric vehicles. But we have to wait for renewable electric grid capacity to support them all, charging points everywhere, and enough new batteries to be manufactured and put in all the new, affordable BEVs. And we’re running out of time. An interim solution has come from a study by MIT and Ford. David Chandler, writing for MIT, explains the study, which says that an interim solution – for certain regions - is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: BEV, cars, emissions, gasoline, ICE, oil, Paris2050, petrol, transport

German task force agreement on traffic emissions 1/3 off target

March 28, 2019 by Sören Amelang

During what was billed as the decisive meeting, the German transport commission charged with proposing emissions cuts for the sector could only reach consensus on measures that will lower emissions by around two thirds of the necessary amount. Pro-climate activists, disappointed with the results, nevertheless welcomed the recommendation to look into the introduction of a CO2 price. Meanwhile emissions have actually increased. And VW, siding with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: biofuels, carbon taxes, cars, emissions, synthetic fuels, transport, VW

Millennials aren’t spurning cars after all. They’re driving more than ever

March 7, 2019 by Lucas Davis

We hoped Millennials would save the planet. Digitally savvy, climate conscious, they would naturally incline towards an emissions-low lifestyle. Sure enough, they were riding bikes, using public transport and, crucially, spurning cars. But Lucas Davis at the Haas School of Business at the University of California reveals data showing they are now buying and driving cars like everyone else. It was the recession that had put them on the bikes and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: cars, emissions, ghg, millennials, policies, recession, transport

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