Hanover, 21 September 2016 – The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) urges EU policy makers to keep on track with their efforts to reflect the complexity of the truck and bus market.
Martin Lundstedt, ACEA’s Commercial Vehicle Board Chairman and Volvo Group CEO, took the opportunity of the IAA Commercial Vehicle Motor Show today to set out the industry’s recommendations for reducing CO2 emissions more effectively, following the European Commission’s recent ‘Strategy for Low-Emission Mobility’.
Since 2010, the European Commission has been developing a computer simulation tool called VECTO. This tool will model CO2 emissions from a wide variety of complete truck and trailer configurations using various heavy-duty vehicle cycles.
By contrast, engine-only limit values for heavy-duty vehicles based upon one existing engine cycle make no sense. Although they may seem at first sight like a much simpler way forward, engine-only targets would not give the results that policy makers, society and customers want, Lundstedt argued. “The market is diverse and complex, trucks and buses are usually tailor-made to customers’ specific orders or are custom-built for a specific mission. VECTO can reflect that complexity, as it takes the variables into account that affect CO2 emissions, such as various usage patterns, vehicle configurations or different payloads. This will be a major game changer.”
http://www.acea.be/press-releases/article/policy-makers-should-adopt-whole-vehicle-approach-to-reducing-co2-from-truc