The Weights & Dimensions Regulation Is Essential To Accelerating Zero-Emission Truck Gross sales

In July 2023, the European Fee printed the ‘Greening Freight Transport’ bundle, with the goal of creating freight transport extra sustainable. Vehicles play a significant position in EU highway transport emissions. Though they solely symbolize 2% of autos on the highway, they account for almost 30% of emissions. If the EU is to attain its 2050 local weather neutrality goal, the EU truck fleet must be quickly decarbonized.

Zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) can nonetheless be heavier and take more room than inner combustion autos (ICE). In 2019, they had been due to this fact allowed to weigh 2 tonnes extra in some use instances. Whereas this was ample for city and most regional supply vehicles, some ZEV designs for long-distance trucking require extra weight, as they’re fitted with heavier batteries. Inside the bundle, the evaluate of the Weights and Dimensions (W&D) Directive goals to grant this additional weight enhance to ZEVs. On this paper, T&E outlines how, by offering non-monetary incentives for zero-emission vehicles and buses, the W&D Directive is crucial to stimulate zero-emission car demand and steer investments. The Directive additional affords a – at the moment untabbed – alternative to restrict the expansion of SUV and pick-up truck gross sales within the light-duty market phase.

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Republished from Transport & Surroundings.