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Gas should be treated same as other fossil fuels, report shows
Powering Europe’s transport with fossil gas – widely known as ‘natural’ gas – would emit as much greenhouse gases as using petrol, diesel or conventional marine fuels, a new T&E report has found....
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First European Diesel summit puts dirty fleet high on the agenda
Three years after the Dieselgate scandal was exposed, there are still 43 million highly polluting diesel cars on European roads. As EU industry commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska said at the first...
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UK clean air ‘strategy’ nothing new
The British government has unveiled a new clean air ‘strategy’ aimed at improving air quality in the UK’s urban areas. T&E has said the plan is eye-catching in some respects but essentially just...
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Have carmakers been caught in Europe’s biggest corporate scandal?
A massive cartel involving five leading German carmakers has been alleged, and, if true, the early indications are that it could result in the highest antitrust fines in EU history – totalling more...
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Watch out for fake EVs, national regulators told
Carmakers can exploit loopholes in the EU’s new CO2 emissions targets to push sales of fake plug-in hybrid cars over EVs with no tailpipe emissions, T&E has warned. The law credits manufacturers...
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Electric car ‘hatchet job’ debunked
A study claiming that electric vehicle produce more carbon emissions than a diesel car has been promptly debunked by academics and experts in Germany, where it was published last month. The Institute...
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Carmakers are recalling dirty diesels in Germany, but Europe will have to...
While carmakers have recalled on average between 70% and 99% of highly-polluting diesel vehicles in Germany, progress has been much, much slower elsewhere in Europe, official data shows. More than...
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Rising CO2 a ‘stark reminder’ about need to accelerate e-vehicles roll-out
Carbon dioxide emissions from new cars are rising, and are back over 120 grams per kilometre, according to provisional data from the European Environment Agency. CO2 from vans also rose in 2018....
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Court to test allegations of a new VW diesel scandal
A German television company has unearthed documentation that suggests Volkswagen is involved in a new ‘Dieselgate’ scandal. The documents allegedly show that VW has put software in the Euro 6 engine...
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Carmakers on course to meet CO2 targets despite years of pushing SUV sales
A new T&E report shows that EU carmakers are only half way to achieving their 2021 CO2 target, due to their strategy of selling highly profitable SUVs until the last minute. But the companies will...
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