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With more than 15 million cars and trucks sold annually, the 27-member European Union is the world's most important vehicle market. Every fourth vehicle sold worldwide is produced in or imported into Europe, and its influence on the business decisions of major global vehicle manufacturers is significant.

Traditionally, the EU has set the pace for the reduction of greenhouse gases from transport and conventional pollutants. Europe is home to a large number of innovative vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, providing advanced technologies that help reduce emissions from transportation.

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International Alignment of Fuel Efficiency Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
An analysis of the prospects for improving alignment of various HDV efficiency programs worldwide, with the aim of accelerating technology development and promoting technology adoption in the global market. 
Report
Vegetable oil markets and the EU biofuel mandate
An important question when estimating the indirect land use change emissions from biodiesel feedstocks is whether vegetable oils replace each other in the market, so that increased demand for one may result in increased...
Briefing
Initial processing of Ricardo vehicle simulation modeling CO2 data
Summarizes how data developed by Ricardo, Inc., was processed to provide the CO2 estimates used as inputs in the development of the EU cost curves.
Working paper
 

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'True Costs of Automobility' study says that motoring taxes are significantly outweighed by external costs
A study by transport academics at the Dresden Technical...

BMW-Studie Gran Lusso Coupé: Sumpf ist Trumpf
Pünktlich zur Präsentation der neuen S-Klasse von Mercedes Mitte...

Geschwindigkeitskontrollen: Bundesweiter Blitz-Marathon geplant
Groß angelegte Tempo-Kontrollen haben sich offenbar bewährt....

Promillegrenze: Innenminister gehen gegen betrunkene Radfahrer vor
Die Innenminister der Länder haben sich darauf geeinigt, den...

Brazil's National Confederation of Transport will host an international seminar on HDV efficiency
The Brazilian National Confederation of Transport (CNT), in...

RFP: Feebate program development tool
The ICCT and the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI) seek an...

Comments: 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
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Transitioning the U.S. light-duty vehicle fleet (National Research Council report)
[For immediate release: 20 March 2013] On Monday, the U.S....

From the ICCT Blogs

EU vote on cars CO2: 95 g/km in 2020, 68-78 g/km in 2025
The Environment Committee of the European Parliament has taken an important step toward finalizing the 2020 CO2 regulation and proposing program improvements after 2020.
Staff Blog
Update on “real-world" fuel consumption in European passenger cars
Follow-up on our analysis last year of fuel consumption data contributed by users of spritmonitor.de confirms the original findings—in fact, average discrepancy between user-reported values and the official numbers determined in the vehicle type-approval process increased to about 23% in 2011.
Staff Blog
EU consumer organizations asking for more realistic vehicle testing
BEUC, FIA, and ANEC are demanding that the European Commission address the growing gap between type-approval and real-world CO2 emissions and fuel consumption.
Staff Blog

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Peter Mock
Peter Mock
Managing Director, Europe