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EU could effectively kill high performance cars by banning their tires

The idea of reducing the rolling resistance of tires to improve efficiency is certainly not a new one. Tire manufacturers have been making improvements in this area for years. Most electric and hybrid vehicles use extremely low rolling resistance tires in order to cut rolling drag to a bare minimum. A new proposal from the European Commission would make these types of tires mandatory beginning in 2012. The proposal would set the maximum drag for new tires limited to 12kg/tonne in 2012, and then 10.5kg/tonne in 2014. The only problem with this ... Read more →

EU continues to backpedal on CO2 standards Jeremy Korzeniewski

Just the other day, we heard the European Union was thinking of lowering its CO2 standards for automakers. It appears that the rumors were true, as the European Parliament has indeed voted to amend ...

Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne still hating on EU CO2 regulations Jeremy Korzeniewski

The negotiations regarding proposed European Union CO2 emissions regulations are ongoing, it seems. Even after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicholas Sarkozy agreed to push the ...

Italy not on board with French/German CO2 agreement Jeremy Korzeniewski

My, how the tables have turned. First, it was Germany that was in opposition to stringent emissions standards in the European Union which would have regulated the amount of carbon dioxide a vehicle ...

VW is OK with EU CO2 targets, proposes nuclear power Jeremy Korzeniewski

It has been said numerous times that German automakers are upset with European proposals which would limit CO2 output to around 120 grams per kilometer. Perhaps we shouldn't be lumping Volkswagen or ...

Germany and France ready to agree on emissions laws? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The German arguments to European Commission rules aimed at lowering average vehicle CO2 emissions has been well covered. Because many of the major German brands make large, powerful vehicles, the German administration felt that they were being dealt with unfairly. France, for its part, has ...

Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne bashes latest EU CO2 proposal 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A few years back, the European Commission began drafting tough new standards to regulate the amount of CO2 that vehicles sold in member states could emit -- and its been backing off ever since. While French and Italian company's had no problems at all with the proposed regulations of 120 g/km of ...

Toyota plans an 18 vehicle low CO2 product offensive in Europe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Toyota Motor Europe President Tadashi Arashima says that the company has plans for eighteen completely new or heavily revised models which will emit less than 140 grams of CO2 per kilometer by the end of next year. Those sound like very ambitious plans but Toyota, which currently averages 149g/km ...

European Commission calls for 470 million euro investment into hydrogen cars 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The allure of hydrogen cars is in their lack of emissions, and this was enough to cause the European Union's executive arm to recently suggest a 470 million euro (665 million dollars) investment into the technology. EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen said, "I'm absolutely not sure that the ...

European Commission could neuter CO2 limits 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The European Commission that's working on new CO2 emissions limits looks like it might be about to tear the guts out of the new rules. While proposals up to this point had largely focused on a limit of 130g/km average for any individual manufacturer's fleet, the new proposal would let makers of ...

European Commission's Green plan for cars stalls 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Less than two weeks after being proposed, the European Commission's plan to force Europe's car industry to reduce new car carbon dioxide emissions to 120 grams per kilometre / 2.6 ounces per mile, has been shelved by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. Meant to be part of a wider ...

European Commission Cranks Down Carbon Caps 7% 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The European Commission is trying to force EU member states to move more quickly to meet their requirements under the Kyoto Protocol. The first phase of their CO2 reductions runs from 2005 to 2008, and the new requirements cover the phase two period up through 2012. Member states requested CO2 ...

New European car manufacturers not reducing CO2 fast enough 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The European Federation for Transport and the Environment has done its own study of cars sold by European manufacturers in 2005 and found that the average emission rate of 160 grams of CO2 per kilometer was down only one percent since 2004, Dieselnet reports. This could be a problem, since the ...


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