The UK government used to focus on passengers’ vehicles when it came to checking emissions of carbon dioxide and implementing new European environment protection standards. Now another big surprise is coming to owners of vehicles of bigger scale such as vans and trucks. Following the launch of a new database, which lists carbon dioxide emissions of all used vans present in the UK car market, van and truck drivers as well as transportation companies may expect to see some possible CO2 emission targets. The European Union is already working on this issue and this is why Great Britain has decided to start moving in this direction. As the UK government states – some key measures of regulatory and technical nature will be introduced in the coming months as proposals regarding the environment protection policy will start to emerge. The key measures in question are supposed to include guidelines on new car and van standards and define deadlines as per which the majority of measures are going to be taken. Land transport on the Isles – rail, Lorries, cars and vans – is believed to be accountable for 21.1% of the UK’s carbon emissions. Of that, some 43% is produced by cars and 8.3% by light commercial vans. And the Government’s target of an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions from transport by 2050 is not aimed only at change in the make-up of fleets, but also the way they operate.
Carbon dioxide emissions should be cut furter. Sometimes it’s almost impossible to breathe in the center of the city.
Soon all of us will be driving Priuses. But it has its good sides.
Have you seen the new Renault electric prototype? If the electric cars of the future will look like this then I’m looking forward to it!