Car Automotive

140 g/km of CO2 on average for new cars by 2008/9
In 1996, the EU’s Member States and the European Parliament approved a ‘Community Strategy to reduce CO2 emissions from passenger cars’. The strategy’s objective is to reduce the average CO2 emissions of newly sold passenger cars in the EU to 120 grams per kilometre by 2005, or 2010 at the latest. The 120 g/km target represents a 35% reduction over 1995 levels. As CO2 is directly
linked to fuel consumption, we can say that the 120 g/km target corresponds to a fuel consumption of 5 litres per 100 km for petrol cars and 4.5 litres per 100 km for diesel cars, to be measured on the official European driving cycle. This objective was to be reached through three ‘pillars’: technical measures, consumer information, and fiscal
measures.In 1998 the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA2) committed to the EU on behalf of its members to reduce the average CO2 emissions from their new car sales in the EU to 140 g/km by 2008. This is a reduction of 25% over 1995 levels,and equivalent to a fuel consumption of 6.0 litres per 100 km for petrol cars and 5.3
litres for diesel cars. The 120 g/km objective was, informally,postponed to 2012.In 1999, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) and the Korean Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA3) made similar commitments for their EU sales. The only difference is that their target year to achieve an average 140 g/km CO2 figure is one year later, 2009. All three associations, in other words, were
given a decade to comply.

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