Missed opportunity for OEC?Some new emission standards will...

Missed opportunity for OEC?

Some new emission standards will apply in 2013 within the Euro zone ( incl. for heavy vehicles )

This snippet from EU legislation act and passenger cars:

"Specific emissions targets

Manufacturers of vehicles have average CO2 emission targets, the formulae for which are set out in Annex I to this Regulation.

For each manufacturer, the following percentages of passenger cars are taken into account in order to determine average specific emissions of CO2:

65 % in 2012;
75 % in 2013;
80 % in 2014;
100 % from 2015 onwards.

This Regulation includes specific provisions for vehicles running on a mixture of fuel with 85 % ethanol (E85). In order to determine whether a manufacturer meets their CO2 emission targets, the percentage of specific emissions for this type of vehicle is to be reduced by 5 % by 31 December 2015. This reduction target is only applicable if at least 30 % of the service stations in the Member State where the vehicle is registered are able to offer this type of biofuel.

In order to create incentives for the car industry to invest in new technologies, super-credits encourage the development of cars generating less emissions than traditional cars. In calculating the average specific emissions of CO2, each new passenger car with specific emissions of CO2 of less than 50 g/km shall be counted as:

3.5 cars in 2012,
3.5 cars in 2013,
2.5 cars in 2014,
1.5 cars in 2015,
1 car from 2016.