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ACEA Urges Delay in Europe’s Next CO2 Target
The European auto industry's ACEA trade group wants a five-year delay in the European Commission's plan to set lower limits for carbon dioxide emissions from new cars sold in the EU, Automotive News Europe reports.
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The European auto industry's ACEA trade group wants a five-year delay in the European Commission's plan to set lower limits for carbon dioxide emissions from new cars sold in the EU, Automotive News Europe reports.
Current targets require carmakers to lower average CO2 output from 130 g/km last year to 95 g/km in 2021. The EC is pondering a new target that would cut allowable CO2 to between 68 g/km and 78 g/km by 2025.
ACEA wants to freeze the target at 95 g/km until 2030. Even then, it says in a position paper cited by ANE, achieving lower limits "may not be possible" because of growing anti-diesel sentiment and weak government support for electrification.
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