2025 and 2030 CO2 emission targets for Light Duty Vehicles

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)