CO2 emissions of the European heavy-duty vehicle fleet
Analysis of the 2019-2020 reference year data
CO2 emissions reduction targets for the years 2025 and 2030 have been introduced for new heavy-duty vehicles that are being sold in the EU. The basis for the reduction is the fleet-average CO2 emissions of newly registered heavy-duty vehicles in the period from July 1st 2019 to June 30th 2020. In this report an overview is provided of the CO2 emissions and the main characteristics of the European heavy-duty vehicle fleet during this reference period. It was found that the vehicle in groups 5 and 10 and in the long haul subgroups have the lowest specific CO2 emissions, in g/t.km. Vehicles that were simulated with a standard value for a component in the CO2 certification, have in general higher CO2 emissions compared to vehicles that were simulated with only measured components. It was investigated whether this increases the reference CO2 emissions. The impact of components with standard values on the reference CO2 emissions was quantified by replacing these components in vehicles with standard values by representative components and recalculating the vehicle’s CO2 emissions and the fleet’s reference CO2 emissions. The use of standard values for certain components instead of measured component data in the simulation tool increases the reference CO2 emissions between 0.4% and 1%.
BROEKAERT Stijn;
FONTARAS Georgios;
2022-06-28
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC127220
978-92-76-49854-4 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 31032 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31032-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC127220,
10.2760/764148 (online),
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