Road transport is the main contributor to transport emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the European Union (EU), with passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) accounting for almost 15% of the total emissions. In order to gradually decarbonise the fleet, the EU has established fleet-wide CO2 targets for annually registered vehicles, assigning manufacturer specific targets based on their average vehicle mass. From 2025, new EU fleet-wide targets will be established applying a percentage reduction to a reference 2021 EU fleet-wide target. This value is calculated from the vehicles’ CO2 emissions for 2020 and the mass and registration figures of 2021. In 2025, the reduction will be 15% for both passenger cars and LCVs, while for 2030 it will increase to 55% and 50%, respectively, following the recent adoption of the more ambitious targets. This report provides the robust method used to calculate the EU fleet-wide targets in 2025 and 2030 and the parameters that will define the manufacturers’ specific target line from 2025 onwards. The EU fleet-wide targets calculated for 2025 are 93.6 g/km for passenger cars and 153.9 g/km for LCVs. For 2030, the EU fleet-wide targets will be reduced to 49.5 g/km for passenger cars and 90.6 g/km for LCVs. The slope of the target line for 2025 will be -0.0144 g/(km∙kg) for passenger cars and 0.0848 g/(km∙kg) for LCVs, while for 2030 the slope will be -0.0076 g/(km∙kg) and 0.0499 g/(km∙kg), respectively. An indicative 2025 average test mass of 1,609.6 kg for cars and 2,163.0 kg for LCVs, was calculated.

SUAREZ CORUJO Jaime;  KOMNOS Dimitrios;  KTISTAKIS Markos;  FONTARAS Georgios; 

2023-06-30

Publications Office of the European Union

JRC133502

978-92-68-03448-4 (online),   

1831-9424 (online),   

EUR 31509 EN,    OP KJ-NA-31-509-EN-N (online),   

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC133502,   

10.2760/901734 (online),