Car manufacturers hoped that the European Union would introduce the stricter CO2 emissions requirements of 2021 a little later due to the corona crisis. However, the EU is now blaming the industry for nothing.
Many car manufacturers find it difficult to achieve the EU’s increasingly strict CO2 targets. This year the corona crisis will be added to this, which means that there was less time and manpower to work on a cleaner fleet. At the outbreak of the virus, efforts were therefore already made to postpone the 2021 goals. That request was later repeated by the European trade association ACEA. However, they are taken bluntly, because the EU is now reporting according to Automotive News that average emissions must simply be reduced according to plan by January 2021.
According to the European Commission, reducing CO2 emissions from cars is too important to wait. “Strict environmental legislation is the best way to promote innovation and competitiveness. It is also important that citizens can trust that the EU can improve their health and environment,” the Commission said. Automotive News know.
The average emissions of a car manufacturer’s fleet in 2021 may only be 95.7 grams of CO2 per kilometer. Several manufacturers have already indicated that they probably will not achieve this. Various manufacturers are also joining each other in a ‘CO2 pool’ in order to benefit from a ‘greener’ fleet of the other, for a fee, and thus achieve better results on average. Incidentally, it was recently announced that the EU wants to accelerate the reduction of permitted emissions. As it turned out, this is causing several manufacturers additional concerns.