The envirionmental committee of the European Parliament approves a draft legislation on monitoring and reporting rules for fuel consumption and CO2 emissions from trucks and buses. The aim is to make these data from more available based on the Vecto model. Read more.
The Commission is expected to present draft legislation setting CO2 emission standards for heavy duty vehicles this year. Read draft
Knowing the present huge efforts from the truck manufacturers to electrify their drivelines this will probably lead to technical leap frogs towards fossil free road transport. Electricity supplied from batteries may well be the main solution in a short-term perspective. Since a couple of years hydrogen and fuel cells seems to become an optional alternative for electricity supply to the electric motor in long haul road transport....
Since a few years’ time the opportunity and benefit of introducing a separate electric motor and batteries in semi-trailers, supporting the tractor pulling the vehicle has been discussed...
Diesel engines in global freight is a main pillar that still remains a valid solution...
