Air quality Decarbonisation Emissions Emissions
18 October 2018
Looking to the result from the vote of the Environmental Committee of the EP on the regulation setting CO2 emissions standard for new heavy-duty vehicles, NGVA Europe points out the missing opportunity to include already available cost-effective solutions with regard to the long-term decarbonisation target.
“Today, a truck running on our European roads with bioCNG or bioLNG emits on a Well-to-Wheel basis less than 5 g CO2/km per ton of payload, and this is passing through the current approach of this legislation.” – Andrea Gerini, Secretary General
For this reason, NGVA Europe will continue to ask for an early inclusion of a Well-to-Wheel mechanism. Renewable gas is ready to play a fundamental role in making the decarbonisation process start earlier in the heavy-duty sector.
But even under the current tailpipe emissions approach, natural gas results a key technology in the future transport scenario: natural gas provides a reduction in tailpipe CO2 emissions by 12% compared to Diesel, going up to 20% with the new solutions based on high pressure direct injection system (see www.ngvemissionsstudy.eu).
This, in combination with low pollutant emissions level and a reduction by 50% of the noise level compared to Diesel, represents a concrete answer towards a more sustainable transport model.
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