Trends & Policies

This was announced by European Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas, and adds up to the 1.2 billion already allocated over the past three years by the European Union to support electric mobility. Such funding will be provided through the Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Facility (AFIF), a Eu...

Electrically chargeable truck registrations fell by 4.6%, with their market share remaining stable at 2.3% as compared to last year. Looking at registrations per country, Germany leads in both the heavy-duty and medium-duty (up to 16 ton GVW) segments. Electrically chargeable vans experienced a sign...

The most urgent action that the industry needs now is that the EU finds a solution for compliance burden relief for cars and vans on the 2025 CO2 target. “The European Green Deal must be subject to a reality check and a realignment – to make it less rigid, more flexible and to turn the decarbonisati...

BEV truck registrations in the 'low' range, the 3.5- to 5-ton range, are growing significantly, with a percentage increase close to 270 percent (170 vs. 46 in 2023). Declining, however, are registrations in the 'middle' segment between 5 and 16 tons, with 19 electric trucks registered compared to 23...

"Whilst trucks make up just 3% of the European vehicle fleet, they’re involved in 15% of all fatal crashes. If we are to deliver 'vision zero'—the concept of no road fatalities on European roads—we cannot only focus on passenger cars. We must consider all vehicle types. We intend to look at buses an...

The CountEmissionsEU proposal aims to help the transport industry collect accurate, comparable emissions data and use it to further decarbonise operations. “The road transport sector needs robust tools to support decarbonisation effectively. CountEmissionsEU is a significant step forward, as it can ...