Carmakers are lining up this week to show off their latest electric models at Munich’s international motor show, but, behind all the talk of sustainability, engine-driven SUVs are the fastest growing car segment. Related Environmental IssueClimate Change and EnergyRelated Transport ModeCarsRelated Policy AreaInvestment Source: transebvnews

This brief is the fifth in a series of short analytical pieces in which T&E will share fresh insights related to the revision of the car CO2 standards. Related Environmental IssueClimate Change and EnergyRelated Transport ModeCarsRelated Policy AreaStandards Source: transebvnews

This brief is the fourth in a series of short analytical pieces in which T&E will share fresh insights related to the revision of the car CO2 standards. Related Environmental IssueClimate Change and EnergyRelated Transport ModeCarsRelated Policy AreaStandards Source: transebvnews

When Henry Ford started to build his first car assembly line, horse dung was still littering the streets. What he invented in 1913 was not a new technology. Ford understood that mass production would mean the end of cars as a luxury item. 10 years on, motor cars had become accessible to most working people [...]

July has been a big month for Europe and not just because of the Euro Championships. After two years of excruciatingly hard work the Commission has published its epochal new climate package. The EU’s ambition is unmistakable. Its goal is to slash emissions by 55% compared to 1990 in the next nine years. To achieve [...]

The EU’s ‘green’ fuels law has been an unmitigated disaster. Instead of pushing sustainable alternatives, it led to widespread deforestation, habitat loss and biodiesel emissions greater than the fossil diesel it replaced. Almost all the growth in “green” fuels was met by imports, mostly through palm oil. In anyone’s eyes that is a complete failure. [...]

‘When it rains in Paris, it drizzles in Brussels’ is a famous Belgian proverb. It is testimony to the French influence on Belgian policymaking. Similarly, if you want to weather the storms of European politics, these days it’s advised to keep track of what’s going on in the Kanzler Tasche. There’s no better example of [...]

The UK government’s Decarbonising Transport plan, announced on the same day as the EU Fit for 55 review, goes further than the EU Commission’s proposals with a bold target to have only zero-emissions vehicles on the UK’s roads - a world first for a major economy. The strategy is a ‘milestone’ in the shift to [...]

It took many years of campaigning, and the efforts of people like Greta Thunberg for politicians to finally start paying attention to aviation emissions; a trio of EU laws and reforms is now supposed to make aviation green. Does it go far enough? Related Environmental IssueClimate Change and EnergyRelated Transport ModeAviationRelated Policy AreaTransport policyEnvironmental policy [...]

Yesterday the European Commission presented a completely revamped infrastructure law to make charging anxiety a thing of the past. As part of the Fit for 55 climate package, EU countries will be mandated to deploy enough public chargers to match the fast-rising sales of electric cars. This is a huge improvement on the current outdated [...]