The European Parliament has voted through the world’s toughest carbon dioxide standards for new cars, setting a limit of 95g per kilometre as an average across all new cars sold in the EU, compared with an existing limit of 130g/km.
The new limit will come into effect in 2020 although full implementation has been delayed for a year following lobbying by Germany on behalf of its premium car makers which will find the new rules extremely challenging.
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EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard that the industry needed planning certainty and the commission would be working over the coming months on “ideas for a post-2020 target”.
